Installing HostMon - Simple Host Monitor and Application Dashboard - on Windows

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Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0705.html

What is HostMon?

HostMon is a simple web-based host monitor and application dashboard. It can be used to monitor the real-time status of hosts and services running in your homelab environment. In addition to monitoring, HostMon has built-in Wake-On-LAN (WOL) capability, SSH client, real-time ping output and the ability to link to your existing Apache Guacamole installation to remotely control hosts from the within browser. The HostMon application is written in javascript and uses a SQLite database backend. - https://github.com/i12bretro/HostMon      01. Log into the Windows device    02. Download the latest HostMon release  https://github.com/i12bretro/HostMon/releases/latest    03. Download NodeJS  https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/    04. Install NodeJS, accepting all defaults    05. Extract the downloaded HostMon files    06. Rename the extracted folder HostMon    07. Cut the HostMon folder to a location it can safely run from, C:\Program Files\HostMon in this example    08. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space ≫ Open PowerShell windows here...    09. Run the following commands in the PowerShell window          # install dependencies          npm install          # run npm audit          npm audit fix          # run hostmon          node .\server.js    10. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3000    11. Welcome to HostMon

Run HostMon as a Service (Optional, but recommended)

   01. Press CTRL + C to kill the running HostMon process    02. Click on the Start Button ≫ Type task ≫ Launch Task Scheduler    03. Right click the Task Scheduler Library folder in the left pane ≫ Create Basic Task...    04. Set the name to HostMon and optionally set a Description ≫ Click Next    05. For the Trigger, select When the computer starts ≫ Click Next    06. For the Action, select Start a program ≫ Click Next    07. Complete the form fields as follows:          Program/script: "%ProgramFiles%\nodejs\node.exe"          Add arguments: "%ProgramFiles%\HostMon\server.js"          Start in: %ProgramFiles%\HostMon    08. Click Next    09. Check the Open the Properties dialog checkbox ≫ Click Finish    10. In the Properties dialog, click the Change User or Group.. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4LwcpDLSwY