Quick How To Install Linux-Dash with Linux

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About Linux-Dash

Linux-Dash  is a Performance monitoring  dashboard written in PHP. Very lightweight web base application, and drop-in applets are provided, admin can have a look on Network performance, RAM status, Disk space available, Installed software information or currently running processes.

Installation and Prerequisites

A CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 15.10 machine, git, Apache web server, PHP package.

Let us install the package with  CentOS 7 first

update system
#yum update

Install Apache, php and git packages

#yum -y install httpd git php php-json  php-xml php-common

Start httpd service

# systemctl start httpd
# systemctl enable httpd

Change working directory to /var/www/html

# cd /var/www/html

Download linux-dash usiing git

# git clone https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash.git

Restart  apache service

# systemctl restart httpd

Open Browser and Type

<IP_address>/linux-dash

Install linux-dash with Ubuntu 15.10

Update system

# apt-get update

Install required packages

# apt-get install apache2 curl php5 php5-curl php5-json git

Change working directory to /var/www/html or your web directory

Download package

git clone https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash.git

Start apache service

# /etc/init.d/apache2 start

Open Browser and start linux-dash monitoring system

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Network monitoring dashboard will look something like below

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User accounts details

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That’s it!

Conclusion

Some times administrators do not have time to dig in detailed log files in such situation this monitoring utility can be useful, very lightweight and featured with very beautifully displayed statistics and graphs.