eZ Server Monitor is a free and open-source server monitoring tool that allows you to track and visualize system metrics in real-time. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install eZ Server Monitor on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before installing any software on your system, it is recommended to update and upgrade the system packages to their latest versions. You can do this using the following command:
sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade
eZ Server Monitor requires some dependencies to be installed on your system. You can install them using the following command:
sudo apk add php php-json php-curl php-bz2 php-zip php-pdo php-pdo_mysql
Navigate to the www directory and download the latest version of eZ Server Monitor using the following command:
cd /var/www && sudo wget http://www.ezservermonitor.com/esm-web/downloads/latest.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded file using the following command:
sudo tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz
You can rename the extracted directory to a more meaningful name using the following command:
sudo mv ez-server-monitor-* ezservermonitor
Edit the configuration file of eZ Server Monitor using the following command:
sudo nano /var/www/ezservermonitor/ezservermonitor/config.php
Update the following configuration parameters as per your environment:
define('DB_DSN', 'mysql:dbname=ezservermonitor;host=127.0.0.1');
define('DB_USER', 'root');
define('DB_PASS', '');
define('ADMIN_USER', 'admin');
define('ADMIN_PASS', 'admin123');
eZ Server Monitor requires a backend MySQL database to store the monitoring data. You can create a database, a database user, and grant all permissions to the user using the following commands:
sudo mysql -u root -p
mysql> create database ezservermonitor;
mysql> grant all privileges on ezservermonitor.* to 'root'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> exit;
Replace password with a strong password that you want to set for the database user.
To access eZ Server Monitor through a web browser, you need to configure the web server. You can configure Nginx as your web server by running the command:
sudo apk add nginx
Then, create a new configuration file for Nginx using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/ezservermonitor.conf
Add the following configuration to the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name server_IP;
root /var/www/ezservermonitor/ezservermonitor;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Replace server_IP with the IP address of your server that you want to bind the web server.
Start and enable the Nginx and PHP-FPM services using the following commands:
sudo rc-update add nginx
sudo rc-update add php-fpm7
sudo service nginx start
sudo service php-fpm7 start
Finally, open a web browser and navigate to your server's IP address followed by /ezservermonitor. For example, http://server_IP/ezservermonitor. You will be redirected to the login page of the eZ Server Monitor.
Use the username admin and the password admin123 (or the password you set in step 4). You should see the eZ Server Monitor dashboard with system statistics.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed eZ Server Monitor on Alpine Linux Latest.
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