Running HostMon in Docker

#HostMon #ApplicationDashboard #HostMonitor

Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0706.html

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What is HostMon?
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HostMon is a simple web-based host monitor and application dashboard. It can be used to monitor the real-time status of hosts and services running in your homelab environment. In addition to monitoring, HostMon has built-in Wake-On-LAN (WOL) capability, SSH client, real-time ping output and the ability to link to your existing Apache Guacamole installation to remotely control hosts from the within browser.
The HostMon application is written in javascript and uses a SQLite database backend. - https://github.com/i12bretro/HostMon
 
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Installing Docker
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   01. Log into the Linux based device
   02. Run the following commands in the terminal
         # install prerequisites
         sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common gnupg-agent -y
         # add docker gpg key
         curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release)/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
         # add docker software repository
         sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release) $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
         # install docker
         sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose containerd.io -y
         # enable and start docker service
         sudo systemctl enable docker && sudo systemctl start docker
         # add the current user to the docker group
         sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
         # reauthenticate for the new group membership to take effect
         su - $USER
 
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Running HostMon
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   01. Now that Docker is installed, run the following commands to setup the HostMon Docker container and run it
         # create working directories
         mkdir ~/docker/hostmon -p
         # set owner of working directories
         sudo chown "$USER":"$USER" ~/docker -R
         # create the hostmon docker container
         docker create -ti --name hostmon i12bretro/hostmon
         # export the hostmon database
         docker cp hostmon:/app/data/hostmon.db ~/docker/hostmon/hostmon.db
         # remove the temporary hostmon container
         docker rm hostmon -f
         # run hostmon with persistent database
         docker run -d --name hostmon -v ~/docker/hostmon:/app/data -p 3000:3000 --restart=unless-stopped i12bretro/hostmon
   02. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3000
   03. Welcome to HostMon running in Docker
 
Documentation:  https://hub.docker.com/r/i12bretro/hostmon
 


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