Monitorix

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used under production Linux/UNIX servers, but due to its simplicity and small size can be used on embedded devices as well.

HOWTO: INSTALL:

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt install -y rrdtool perl libwww-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-lite-perl librrds-perl hddtemp
cd /tmp/
wget http://www.monitorix.org/monitorix_3.9.0-izzy1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i monitorix*.deb
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo service apache2 reload
sudo service monitorix restart

Thanks to Monitorix

Red Hat / Centos

su - root
yum install -y monitorix

HOWTO: CONFIGURE:

Documentation

• http://www.monitorix.org/documentation.html

Config File Location(s)

sudo nano /etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf

Ubuntu & Debian also have a secondary configuration file:

sudo nano /etc/monitorix/conf.d/00-debian.conf

Post configuration or either .conf file you will need to restart Monitorix:

sudo service monitorix restart

Enable/Disable Graphs

Locate the section shown below:

# Graphs (de)activation
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
<graph_enable>
       disk            = y
       system          = y
       kern            = y
       proc            = y
       zfs             = y

To enable/disable alter as required:

HOWTO: FIX:

Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /monitorix-cgi/monitorix.cgi on this server.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/monitorix.conf
sudo service apache2 reload
sudo nano /etc/monitorix.conf
sudo service apache2 restart
sudo service monitorix restart
cd /usr/share/monitorix/
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data imgs/

Thanks to Monitorix FAQ.

HOWTO: VIEW:

http://your.domain.com/monitorix

http://your.ip.address:8080/monitorix/