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Server monitoring with graphical output required, but no need to run a monitoring suite like nagios? With existing debian lamp server you might want to use SmokePing.

Setup is fairly easy:

• apt-get install smokeping
• edit /etc/smokeping/config.d/General
  let cgiurl point to your server https://your_domain.tld/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi
• edit /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets and define the servers which should be monitored
• restart smokeping: systemctl restart smokeping (or smokeping –restart)
• open https://your_domain.tld/smokeping/smokeping.cgi

Add password protection:

• edit /etc/apache2/conf-available/smokeping.conf and add two Location sections:
  <Location /cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi>
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/your_password_file
  AuthName “protected”
  AuthType Digest
  AuthDigestProvider file
  require valid-user
  </Location>
  <Location /smokeping/smokeping.cgi>
  … (see above)
  </Location>
• htdigest -c /etc/apache2/your_password_file “protected” your_user
• apache2ctl configtest
  apache2ctl graceful

Credits go to Tobi Oetiker, the author of this well made tool!