{"id":38,"date":"2012-02-27T02:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.latindevelopers.com\/ivancp\/?p=38"},"modified":"2012-02-27T02:03:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:03:54","slug":"install-bmon-as-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/en.latindevelopers.com\/ivancp\/2012\/install-bmon-as-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Install bmon as service"},"content":{"rendered":"

bmon<\/a> is a useful network monitoring tool, the most useful feature is that bmon store historical data from las 60 seconds, minutes, hours and days, the “problem” is that bmon needs to be running all time.<\/p>\n

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If you have a network server with Linux as proxy, you will probably need to see the current bandwidth usage or see what happens 60 minutes ago.<\/p>\n

We can use screen<\/a> with a running bmon process to generate HTML result of current bandwidth usage, and we will see generated HTML pages from Apache.<\/p>\n

Steps to install and configure<\/p>\n

Pasos para instalar y ejecutar:<\/p>\n

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  1. Install bmon and screen:
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    \nsudo apt-get install screen bmon<\/code><\/code> <\/li>\n
  2. Create the directory: (you can change this option)\/var\/www\/bmon-html<\/li>\n
  3. Create the file \/etc\/init\/bmon.conf<\/code>\u00a0 with follow content:\n
    description \"bmon bandwidth monitoring process\"\r\n\r\nstart on (local-filesystems and net-device-up and runlevel [2345])\r\nstop on runlevel [016]\r\n\r\nexec screen -d -m -S bmon bmon -O html:path=\/var\/www\/bmon-html<\/strong><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  4. Start the new service:sudo service bmon start<\/code>\n
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  5. Then the web page\u00a0 http:\/\/localhost\/bmon-html\/ will be availbale and updated constantly.\"\"<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Enjoy!<\/p>\n
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