System Status Page?

[fairm010]

No idea where this has to go, move if needed.

 

I am looking to make a webpage that would be hosted internally that is a "System Status" page, very much like whats at the top here: Mojang | Support Center so staff can get at a glance the status of things like: Network Status, Email System, VPN. Preferably something I can control from the office, I don't need it automated as that's a bit overkill for what I want.

 

I found this, don't know if its relevant: Stashboard: The open source status dashboard. I have knowledge of HTML and web design but thats my limit so Python is way over my head!

 

Somebody please help!

 

Matt

[sonofsanta]

Why not just do a flat HTML page on your intranet and edit the code when necessary? We have a traffic light on our helpdesk page and when something is iffy, I shuffle the comments brackets around and change the lightbulb to orange (usually whilst making the Red Dwarf joke).

 

I just leave the relevant HTML file open in Notepad++ all the time, edit when needed and hit Ctrl+S. Change made. Easy.

[fairm010]

That was my first thought. I might start trying to code that when i get home. Its been a while since i built something from scratch.

 

I was wondering if there are any pre-made things out there.

 

Thanks!

[sonofsanta]

I'd say that if you're not shoving it front-and-centre, no-one is going to go out of their way to look at it - stick it on your main intranet page then it'll actually get seen!

 

I don't think you need to go over the top and list lots of systems - we just have a single red/orange/green lightbulb PNG image and anytime it's not green, I write a brief comment as to why.

[fairm010]

I'd say that if you're not shoving it front-and-centre, no-one is going to go out of their way to look at it - stick it on your main intranet page then it'll actually get seen!

 

I don't think you need to go over the top and list lots of systems - we just have a single red/orange/green lightbulb PNG image and anytime it's not green, I write a brief comment as to why.

 

I am planning to put this on the main page of our helpdesk so when they go to make complaints that they can't email pictures of LOL cats to their friends they can see i'm dealing with it

 

Could you possibly post the code for your traffic light page?

 

Im just going to put basic systems eg: Servers up and active, email, VPN.

 

Matt

[glennda]

Search the Forum for PHP server monitor - another open source software but requires more setting up is Zabbix.

[zag]

See my sig

 

Edited April 16, 2013 by zag

[sonofsanta]

Could you possibly post the code for your traffic light page?

 

Literally just this (goes in a block on our Spiceworks page)

System Status: Normal


http://ws0:9675/portal/logo/greenLight.png
All systems working fine.

(now you know the last two major problems we had here as well)

 

The three images are attached, not that they're much special.

[unixman_again]

Here's a bit of code I came up with the other day which might help

/*
# check server status (replaces servers alive)
# relies on https://github.com/geerlingguy/Ping
# relies on http://www.leefindlow.com/projects/server-status/
*/

require_once('Ping.php');
include('ServerStatus.class.php');

# servers to check
#                                    hostname                  function                   services to check  
$cfg['servers'][0] = array('host' => 'sisko', 'description' => 'Main Website', 'ports' => '80,143,3306');
$cfg['servers'][1] = array('host' => 'odo',   'description' => 'Moodle',       'ports' => '80,3306');
$cfg['servers'][2] = array('host' => 'kim',   'description' => 'Media',	       'ports' => '80');

# services table
#                                     service                 port                   service description
$cfg['services'][0] = array('name' => 'Web Server',	'port' => 80, 	'description' => 'Web server, such as Apache');
$cfg['services'][1] = array('name' => 'SSH',		'port' => 22, 	'description' => 'Secure SHell service is running for remote access');
$cfg['services'][2] = array('name' => 'MySQL',		'port' => 3306,	'description' => 'MySQL database server');
$cfg['services'][3] = array('name' => 'SMTP',		'port' => 25,	'description' => 'Mail server (SMTP)');
$cfg['services'][4] = array('name' => 'FTP',		'port' => 21,	'description' => 'FTP server running to allow file transfers');
$cfg['services'][5] = array('name' => 'Telnet',		'port' => 23,	'description' => 'Telnet server running to allow (unsecure) remote access');
$cfg['services'][6] = array('name' => 'POP',		'port' => 110,	'description' => 'Mail server (POP)');
$cfg['services'][7] = array('name' => 'IMAP',		'port' => 143,	'description' => 'Mail server (IMAP)');

$ping = new Ping('127.0.0.1');															// initialise ping
$ss = new ServerStatus();																// initialise server status
$detail = false;
$detail = $_GET['detail'];
?>

<br />
.resultstable{border-collapse:collapse;}<br />
.resultstable td,.resultstable th{<br />
    padding:10px;<br />
}<br />
.resultstable tr:hover .name,.resultstable tr:hover .description{<br />
    background-color:#ddd;<br />
    -webkit-transition:all 0.8s;<br />
}<br />
.host{background-color:#768da9;}<br />
.bg-red{background-color:#F33;}<br />
.bg-green{background-color:#3F3;}<br />


</pre><table class="resultstable">


foreach($cfg['servers'] as $server) {
$ping->setHost($server['host']);													// check server is up
$latency = $ping->ping('socket');
echo '';
echo '' . $server['host'] . '';
echo ''.$server['description'].'';
if ($latency) {
	echo 'Up';
} else {
	echo 'Down';
}
echo '';
if ($detail) {
if ($latency) {																		// server up, check services
	$ports = explode(',',$server['ports']);
	foreach($ports as $port) {
		foreach($cfg['services'] as $service) {										// locate each service in table
			if ($port == $service['port']) {
				echo '';
				echo '' . $service['name'] . '';
				if ($ss->checkServer($server['host'], $service['port'])) {
					echo 'Ok';    
				} else {
					echo 'Fail';
				}
				echo '' . $service['description'] . '';
				echo '';
			}
		}
	}
}
echo '';
}
}
?>


</tabl

[fairm010]

@zag That is brilliant, ive wanted something like that for myself to quickly see the status of things, thankyou!

@sonofsanta That is exactly what I want, ill use that. Thankyou!

[fairm010]

@zag Ive got that setup and working. Does it refresh automatically? If a server was to go down would it pick it up straight away or would a refresh be needed?

[fairm010]

Right! After some headbanging and HTML lessons ive knocked this up!

 

Its a combination of both Zag's code and Sonofsantas code. I think its quite good!

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17833[/ATTACH]

 

Tell me what you think!

 

Matt

[zag]

@zag Ive got that setup and working. Does it refresh automatically? If a server was to go down would it pick it up straight away or would a refresh be needed?

 

No its doesn't refresh automatically, but someone posted some code in the original thread to do that.

 

Looks great

[fairm010]

Thanks Zag, I've already put some in. Thanks for the great bit of code!!

[Mcshammer_dj]

I use skipole here and it really is simple to use and gives a similar ability to monitor

 

skipole-monitor - A simple network monitor with built in web server - Google Project Hosting

[woodham]

Fairm010 any chance of posting up the code you have used it looks really nice

 

cheers

 

Andy

[fairm010]

Of course, I'm at another site at the moment, I'll upload tonight.

 

Matt

[woodham]

cheers Edited May 21, 2013 by woodham
double post