Command Center

Continuous monitoring tool for cron jobs and system vitals (using Monit)

Usage

You can either host your own instillation of this program or use my hosted version at https://dev.rybel-llc.com/commandcenter

Tracking Cron Jobs/Systems

Cron Jobs: All you have to do is add a bit of additional code to the crontab. After a cron job runs, just add a curl call to our API to confirm that the job ran successfully. Our documentation will give you the exact details on what to do.

System Monitoring: First you have to configure Monit to track your system metrics and expose a web interface. Once you've done this, just add you Monit login credentials to this system and Command Center will periodically poll your Monit instances and report back on all the system statuses.

Display Page

This program also has a display page that can be used as a dashboard that quickly shows all the jobs/systems you are tracking.

Green is operating normally
Yellow is degraded (mouse over it for more details)
Red is a problem (mouse over it for more details) The display page also supports a URL parameter to display all jobs/systems or only those with problems. Use errorOnly = true to only display problems or false (the default value) to display all jobs/systems.

Custom Installation

Create a new database and import the contents of CommandCenter.sql
Update the credentials in config example.ini
Rename config example.ini to config.ini
Create a new Google API Credential (done here) and place the client_secret.json in the root directory of the project
Place the code on a server capable of running PHP
Create the cron jobs located in cronjobs.txt

Other Tips

In addition to this, I also have setup a script to send me an email every morning with the contents of the display page for quick access to see what jobs are running correctly and which aren't.