diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 90dc94f..6e18fc2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,15 +5,12 @@ pyDash - v1.4.4 [![Follow @hostechs](https://dev.twitter.com/sites/default/file [![Flattr this](http://api.flattr.com/button/flattr-badge-large.png)](http://flattr.com/thing/2630601/k3onipydash-on-GitHub "Flattr this") -A small web-based monitoring dashboard for your linux pc/server writen in Python and Django + Chart.js. +A reusable django app for monitoring your linux server. -The dashboard is built using only Python libraries available in the main Python distribution, trying to create a small list of dependencies without the need of installing many packages or libraries. +Supported Python versions: -Current dependencies: - - - == Django 1.6.1 - - == Python 2.x + - Python 2.x __[View Demo](http://pydash.hostechs.com/)__ @@ -27,25 +24,92 @@ __[View Demo](http://pydash.hostechs.com/)__ Installation ============ -###[Installing pyDash](https://github.com/k3oni/pydash/wiki) +Clone the repository to your pc and copy the pydash folder to your django application. + +Make sure that ``django.contrib.auth`` is installed and working. + +Open your project's ``settings.py`` and add ``pydash`` to ``INSTALLED_APPS``: + + INSTALLED_APPS = ( + 'pydash', + ) + +Open your project's ``urls.py`` and include the ``pydash`` urls. + + urlpatterns = patterns('', + (r'^pydash/', include('pydash.urls')), + ) + +Make sure ``AppDirectoriesFinder`` is enabled in your ``STATICFILES_FINDERS``: + + STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( + 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder', + ) + +Before deploying to a live server, run the following command in order to collect the static files stored in pydash's directory: + + $ python manage.py collectstatic Settings ======== -###[pyDash settings](https://github.com/k3oni/pydash/wiki/Settings) +There are 3 different refresh settings which are measured in `miliseconds`: + + TIME_JS_REFRESH = 30000 #30 seconds + TIME_JS_REFRESH_LONG = 120000 #120 seconds + TIME_JS_REFRESH_NET = 2000 #2 seconds + +If you wish to override the default settings, simply set those fields with the new values in your application's ``settings.py`` file. + +The refresh settings for each table are as follows: + + Memory Usage - TIME_JS_REFRESH + Load Average - TIME_JS_REFRESH + CPU Usage - TIME_JS_REFRESH + Traffic Usage - TIME_JS_REFRESH_NET + Disk Reads/Writes - TIME_JS_REFRESH_NET + Uptime - TIME_JS_REFRESH_LONG + Disk Usage - TIME_JS_REFRESH_LONG + Online Users - TIME_JS_REFRESH_LONG + Processes - TIME_JS_REFRESH_LONG + Netstat - TIME_JS_REFRESH_LONG Remote data retrieval ===================== -###[pyDash remote data retrieval](https://github.com/k3oni/pydash/wiki/Remote-data-retreival) +pyDash allows you to retrieve data remotely. + +Data is returned in JSON and can be easily retrieved as long as the user agent has been authenticated by the web application. For more information about how sessions are managed in Django, please click [here](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/http/sessions/). + +pyDash has a list of short URLs which you can use to retrieve the specific data: + + /info/uptime/ - Uptime + /info/platform/hostname/ - Hostname + /info/platform/osname/ - OS Name + /info/platform/kernel/ - Kernel + /info/getcpus/cpucount/ - Number of CPU cores + /info/getcpus/cputype/ - Type/Name of CPU + /info/memory/ - Memory Usage + /info/cpuusage/ - CPU Usage in percentage(%), free and used + /info/getdisk/ - Disk Usage + /info/getusers/ - Online Users + /info/getips/ - IP Addresses + /info/gettraffic/ - Internet Traffic + /info/getdiskio/ - Disk Reads/Writes + /info/proc/ - Running Processes + /info/loadaverage/ - Load Average + /info/getnetstat/ - Netstat + +To see the format of the JSON returned, you can access any of the URLs from your browser, e.g. `http://demo.pydash.net/info/uptime/` . OS Support ========== -pyDash was tested and runs under the following OSs: +pyDash was tested and runs under the following OSes: + - Centos - Fedora - Ubuntu @@ -55,7 +119,7 @@ pyDash was tested and runs under the following OSs: - Arch Linux -Might work under others, but didn't get to test any other OSs just yet. +It might work under others, but it hasn't been tested yet. @@ -68,6 +132,6 @@ License Credits ======= -[Dashboard Template](http://www.egrappler.com/templatevamp-free-twitter-bootstrap-admin-template/), -[Bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/), +[Dashboard Template](http://www.egrappler.com/templatevamp-free-twitter-bootstrap-admin-template/), +[Bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/), [Font Awesome](http://fontawesome.io/)