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Next, open your web browser and type the URL: to get the web dashboard login interface. At this point, all should be set, now run the following command to start the Django development server. Password (again): # Create Project Databaseĩ. Username (leave blank to use 'root'): admin

$ python manage.py syncdbĪnswer the questions below according to your scenario: Would you like to create one now? (yes/no): yes

Web monitor linux install#

Afterward, run the django command below to create the project database and install Django’s auth system and create a project super user. Now move into the pydash directory containing settings.py or simple run the command below to open this file to change the SECRET_KEY to a custom value. Now install the pydash project requirements if you are curious enough, view the contents of requirements.txt using the cat command and the install them using as shown below. $ source /home/aaronkilik/pydash/pydashtest/bin/activateįrom the screenshot above, you’ll note that the PS1 prompt changes indicating that your virtual environment has been activated and is ready for use.Ħ. Once you have created the virtual environment ( pydashtest), you must activate it before using it as follows. Important: Take note the virtual environment’s bin directory path highlighted in the screenshot above, yours could be different depending on where you cloned the pydash folder.ĥ. $ virtualenv pydashtest #give a name for your virtual environment like pydashtest Next, create a virtual environment for your project called pydashtest using the virtualenv command below. Now using git command, clone the pydash directory into your home directory like so: # git clone Ĥ. If you have git and Python pip installed, next, install virtualenv which helps to deal with dependency issues for Python projects, as below: # pip install virtualenvģ. First install required packages: git and Python pip as follows: - On Debian/Ubuntu.

Web monitor linux how to#

In this article, we will show you how to install pydash to monitor Linux server performance. The dashboard is developed entirely using Python libraries provided in the main Python distribution, therefore it has a few dependencies you don’t need to install many packages or libraries to run it. You can use it to keep an eye on your Linux PC/server resources such as CPUs, RAM, network stats, processes including online users and more. It has been tested and can run on the following mainstream Linux distributions: CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux, Raspbian as well as Pidora. Pydash is a lightweight web-based monitoring tool for Linux written in Python and Django plus Chart.js.