It monitors the servers on a network using a config file and reports the users that are currently logged in it.

What is this repository for?

This repo is for Monito related development and issues. This app has not been tested on windows os.

Pre-requisites

- `pip` or `easy_install`
- Create a shared secret key for your machines in order to allow anonymous ssh login to monito.

Dependencies

* python3
* linux os

How to setup the app

* Clone the project
* Download virtualenvwrapper
    - `pip install virtualenvwrapper`
* Create new virtual environment
    - `mkvirtualenv monito`
* Shift to the environment
    - `source ~/.virtualenvs/monito/bin/activate`
* Install dependencies
	- `pip install -r dev-requirements.txt`
* Give execute permissions to the script (fetch_machines.sh)
	- `chmod +x ./monito.sh`
* Create a csv file (without headers) with the following format
    - hostname,owner name,username-to-use-to-login

Run the app

`python app.py`

Run the script for getting the live users

`./monito.sh -f /path/to/machinefile -k /path/to/ssh-key/file [-m <false/true>]`
Note: Running the above script with true will remove the owners and current users from the database.

Technical diagram

Misc

* Open `http://localhost:5000` for viewing the dashboard.
* Use `-h` for help menu