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

#HostMon #ApplicationDashboard #HostMonitor

Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0692.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 Linux device 02. Run the following commands in a terminal window # update software repositories sudo apt update # install available software updates sudo apt upgrade -y # install prerequisites sudo apt install git curl -y # add nodejs software repository curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo bash - # install nodejs sudo apt install nodejs -y # clone the hostmon git repository git clone https://github.com/i12bretro/hostmon.git ./hostmon # change directory to the source code cd hostmon # clean npm cache npm cache clean --force # install npm dependencies npm install # fix npm vulnerabilities npm audit fix # run hostmon node ./server.js 03. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3000 04. Welcome to HostMon

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