Network Monitor

The app monitors your online services/devices and sends an email or SMS when any of them go online or offline

Features

1. Send SMS or email when device/service is online or offline
2. Send only one notification till device status changes
3. Supports multiple users
4. Device/Service status report
5. Uses PHP/MySQL (Sqlite, PostGres and MsSQL are coming soon)

Requirements

1. PHP >= 7.0
2. MySQL database (Sqlite, PostGres and MsSQL are coming soon)

Installation

1. Download/clone this repo to your server
2. cd into the app and run composer install
3. Setup a virtual host on your server such that this app can be accessed with a url http://sub.domain.com
4. Clone .env.example to .env and change values to correspond with your setup environment
5. Visit http://sub.domain.com. default credentials is netmon: Security86

Note: If the app will be used on a local network, the virtual host should be setup on a unique port so the app can be accessed on http://ipaddress:port

Setup Database

1. Install MySQL
2. Create a database in MySQL
3. Set DB_CONNECTION option in .env to mysql
4. Create a database and save the information in .env
5. Import dev/data/scheme.sql and dev/data/data.sql into your database

Monitoring Script

The file monitor.php is responsible for monitoring devices and saving the device status. This file should run every minute in order for the app to function properly. Follow your platform specific instructions to enable monitor.php to run every minute

Linux & Mac

1. Type crontab -e into a command terminal

2. Add the following line to your crontab

   * * * * * cd {PATH/TO/THIS/FOLDER} && php monitor.php >> cron.log

   Do not forget to replace {PATH/TO/THIS/FOLDER} with the actual path on your computer

Windows

Not yet tested (Contributions are welcome)

ROADMAP

• Support for multiple databases
• Email queuing (for reliability)
• Support for multiple SMTP servers (to ensure emails are sent)
• Run script when device/service goes online/offline (useful for restarting service, etc)