Linux Dash

A simple, low-overhead web dashboard for GNU / Linux. (~1MB)

DEMO | Installation Instructions

Features

• A beautiful, simple web-based dashboard for monitoring a linux server
• Only 1MB on disk! (.git removed)
• Live graphs, refresh-able widgets, and a growing # of supported modules
• Drop-in install for PHP (Apache, NGINX) and Node.js

Installation

PHP

1. Make sure you have the exec, shell_exec, and escapeshellarg functions enabled
2. Go to the web root for your server

• /var/www/ by default for Apache
• For help with nginx setup, see this gist by @sergeifilippov.

3. Get a copy of Linux Dash by one of the following methods:

• Use composer, run composer create-project afaqurk/linux-dash -s dev
• Or clone the git repo: git clone https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash.git
• Or download the source

Node.js

1. Get a copy of Linux Dash by one of the following methods

• Clone the git repo: git clone https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash.git
• Or download the source

2. Go into the linux-dash folder and run npm install
3. Start Linux Dash by running: node server

• Default port is 80. You may change this in server/index.js on line 8

Go

1. Get a copy of Linux Dash by one of the following methods

• Clone the git repo: git clone https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash.git
• Or download the source

2. Go to the linux-dash/server folder and run go run index.go

• To build a binary, run go build && ./server -h
• See @tehbilly's notes here for binary usage options

Security

Please note: If you would like to limit access to linux-dash, please add .htaccess or other security measure.

Goals for v2.0

• Backend ported to Python shell scripts & python from PHP
• Add config file
• Segregate core code-base and modules
• Each module in a separate directory with front-end template, back-end file, bash script
• Add project to package managers
  • npm
  • composer
  • aur
  • apt
• Bonus: multiple server side languages supported
  • Currently supported: node, php, & go

Support

• OS
  • Arch
  • Debian 6, 7
  • Ubuntu 11.04+
  • Linux Mint 16+
  • CentOS 5, 6
• Apache 2
• Nginx
• PHP 5
• Modern browsers