Network Monitor

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

Features

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

Requirements

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

Installation

Download/clone this repo to your server
cd into the app and run composer install
Setup a virtual host on your server such that this app can be accessed with a url http://sub.domain.com
Clone .env.example to .env and change values to correspond with your setup environment
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

Install MySQL
Create a database in MySQL
Set DB_CONNECTION option in .env to mysql
Create a database and save the information in .env
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

Type crontab -e into a command terminal
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)

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