bbmon.cgi (now 0.2)

A BigBrother like interface for the Mon Monitoring system.

Synopsis:: Simplified Web status interface for the Mon resource monitoring system. bbmon.cgi was written to offer a BigBrother-like interface to Mon. It only returns a visual state of the monitored systems. As of today it doesn't offer any interaction, use mon.cgi instead.

See a static snapshot ;
Get the latest tarball: bbmon_0.2.tar.gz ;
Read the little documentation (included in the distribution).

DESCRIPTION

Simplified Web status interface for the Mon resource monitoring system. bbmon.cgi was written to offer a BigBrother-like interface to Mon. It only returns a visual state of the monitored systems. As of today it doesn't offer any interaction, use mon.cgi instead: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/contrib/cgi-bin/mon.cgi/
Requires mon and Mon::Client for proper operation. mon.cgi is a plus if you wan't to be able to use the links in bbmon.cgi to the more detailed information given by mon.cgi.

Mon can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/software/mon
Mon::Client can be found on CPAN: http://www.cpan.org
mon.cgi can be found at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/contrib/cgi-bin/mon.cgi

AUTHORS

Nicolas Sayer (Nick@loplop.net), created for and under contract of INRIA / DirDRI / VTHD for the VTHD (Vraiment Très Haut Débit) project.
Based on the Mon program by Jim Trocki (trockij@transmeta.com). http://www.kernel.org/software/mon
Look & Feel completely inspired from the Big Brother System & Network Monitor http://bb4.com
David Sagnol: in 0.2: better generated html. Should be html 4.0 compliant

( this is not at all a BB challenger, the only aim was to give a "BB look" to the totally independent Mon system).

INSTRUCTIONS

bbmon.cgi should be surprisingly easy to install, as long as your Mon setup is working. Actually, if you already have mon.cgi working, you should be able to install bbmon.cgi in 9 seconds, depending on your keyboard type (vi is harder to use with a French keyboard ;-)

Just copy the bbmon.cgi Perl script in your web-servers cgi-bin directory or any directory allowed to run cgi scripts. (Check out Apache at http://www.apache.org if unfamiliar with CGIs). Also copy the bbimgs directory to wherever you want the gif images to be in.

Now then, go and edit the first line of this script to set the path to the Perl executable (you do have Perl ?).

Next, and finally, go and take a look at the "CONFIGURABLE" section below (not below in the page, below in bbmon.cgi).

The "use lib" line should only be needed if the Mon::Client Perl modules is not in the main Perl installation tree.
$imgs: URL path to the gif files location
$monuser: Mon user that has at least read-only ability
$monpass: his password (default should work?) (see Mon documentation).
$monhost: host running the Mon daemon
$title: Title of the generated web page
$reload: How much time should your browser wait before reloading the page ?
$mysite: URL of your site (linked on the logo)
$mylogo: URL of your company logo / cat picture / favourite beer or whatever
$sysadmin: Your local Gods name
$sysadmin: His E-Mail
$moncgiurl: The URL to mon.cgi if relevant. This way you'll have links from the bbmon page directly to the mon.cgi specific status reports.

Most of the configuration stuff affects the cosmetic aspect of the page. It should run "out of the box".

BUGS

lack of features... dirty & unreadable code.

FUTURE

Let me know about wanted_lists/bugs/anoyances...

10/2004 Nicolas Sayer