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Welcome to the linux-dash wiki!

This project is a drop-in, minimal-dependency web dashboard for linux servers. It provides a web interface for useful linux server information and statistics.

Try out the demo!

• Project Goals
• Documentation
• Dependencies

Project Goals

• Visual UX is the highest priority
• Drop-in install
  • Minimal dependencies to libraries and packages (PHP/Linux packages)
  • Main page to remain an HTML file
• Support for:
  • OS / Linux versions: Debian 6+, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu 11.04+, Mint/CentOS
  • Browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox. (latest major releases)
  • Back-end: PHP 5.3+, BASH
• Easily digest-able documentation for application and each widget
• Modular approach to JS code

Documentation

Stack

This application is written in with a PHP/shell scripted back-end, and uses AJAXY front-end (bootstrap, jquery) to display the dashboard.

Contribute

All widgets should answer the following questions:

• What data does it display?
• List of all back-end files this functionality uses (sh directory)
• How does it obtain that data (shell command, php parses system file, etc.)
• Any assumptions/predictive calculations made? If so, please explain briefly

List of Current Widgets

• General info
• Load Average
• RAM
• Disk Usage
• Users
• Software
• IP
• Internet Speed
• Online
• Processes
• Logs

Dependencies

• Apache (configured to use PHP)
• PHP 5 (with cURL library installed and enabled)