Server Status Widget

Plasma 4 Extensions

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Description:

The Server Status Widget is a Plasma widget (a.k.a. applet or Plasmoid) for your KDE desktop.

This widget/applet/plasmoid lets you monitor one or more servers via pings, TCP connects or custom unix commands in a configurable interval. The icon changes if a server does not respond to a check, optionally triggering configurable KDE notifications.

Feedback is always welcome, best way is through KDE-Look, but you can also mail me (see the README). Let me know if you find any bugs.

Per server notifications
Finally, the widget has per server notifications. This means you should be able to use notifications as a means to do selective logging, execute certain scripts for special servers and many more.

Panel support
The widget can now sit in the panel as icon and shows the servers on click. The icon used in the panel signals the worst status of any of the servers (see screenshot 3).

Also, I am still looking for translators. Just sayin' :)
Please consult the wiki (linked below) if you can help me with that...


Gentoo users:
The ebuild is now in portage (unstable)!
http://packages.gentoo.org/package/kde-misc/serverstatuswidget
Until it is up to date, there is an ebuild below...

Archlinux users:
There is a PKGBUILD in the AUR now (1.5.1):
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47270

Fedora users:
There are packages available in the PhobOS repository. Per Authors request I am not directly linking the packages so you can read the disclaimer first.
http://phobos.floriansievert.de/package.php?release=F14&package=kde-plasma-serverstatus

OpenSUSE users:
You can find up-to-date packages in the official package database, make sure to pick a package matching your distro version:
http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=serverstatus&exclude_debug=true

Compilation instructions are included in the tarball and in the INSTALL file linked below. If you know how to build packages for your favorite distro, let me know and I will put them up here.

Have fun, conrausch.
Feedback welcome :)


GITORIOUS PROJECT:
http://gitorious.org/serverstatuswidget

README:
http://gitorious.org/serverstatuswidget/pages/Readme

INSTALL:
http://gitorious.org/serverstatuswidget/pages/Installation

WIKI:
http://gitorious.org/serverstatuswidget/pages/Home
Last changelog:

10 years ago

1.5.1
- Update french translation (thanks bruno666)
- Add compatibility for for KDE 4.4 and below

1.5
- Per server notifications
- Panel support (collapse to icon)
- French translation (thanks bruno666)

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gzu

11 years ago

Hi,

Just discovered this plasmoid and I like it a lot. It would be good if some more checks could be added to it, like some of those in "Monit".
For example
check SSH connection on port 22
check apache server-status information.

Thanks,

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conrausch

11 years ago

Hi,

thanks for the suggestion, I never heard of Monit before and I will look at it for some ideas.

From what I can tell by a quick look at the manual it does many things similar to the widget though. Especially SSH connections can easily be tested already by setting the check type to "Socket connection" and the port to 22. Same goes for Apache and port 80, although the service info might offer more details of course.

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knightmb

11 years ago

That's what I do. I have it check the port number to see if the service is up or not for my web server, e-mail, etc. Works great because I can bring them up or down and the monitor catches it right away.

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knightmb

11 years ago

The new version is awesome. For a network admin, this is a must have plasmoid. You can set each server to a custom port check, time check, and custom name. Now I can have a nice monitor on my desktop background that will show if any server stops responding. When the notification settings are up and running in the future releases, I'll have another reason to cheer!

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mreloads

11 years ago

Builds OK, however, it is too big for panel. Also there should be option for hiding the name. Servers for monitoring could be available through popup menu. Anyway, this plasmoid has potential to be a server monitoring tool.

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conrausch

11 years ago

It's not meant for the panel, but as a desktop plasmoid. That is a pretty good idea, though. I will think of way to integrate that. How do you think it should look, if put into the panel? Only one Icon, which indicates if any one of the servers is down?

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conrausch

11 years ago

I was a little quick uploading.
I uploaded a new version without increasing the version number which fixes the build errors. That includes a fix in CMakeLists.txt for proper linking and a check for the KDE version (I used a KNotification function added in 4.3, but now 4.2 should work as well).

Sorry for any inconvenience...

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bram85

11 years ago

It does not build, I had to add these libraries to the target_link_libraries:

${QT_QTNETWORK_LIBRARY}
${KDE4_KIO_LIBS}

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conrausch

11 years ago

Thanks, fixed it (and actually another issue too. always use brain before uploading stuff :) )

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sidsoft

11 years ago

On the Gentoo Eduilds

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knightmb

11 years ago

The plasmoid has a memory leak of some kind. I use it to monitor about 13 servers and 16 nodes. After about half a day, it burns up almost 1GB of RAM.

Restart KDE and all is good until it churns all the memory again.

At first, I didn't know what the cause was until I did trial and error with each Plasmoid on my desktop until I was just left with this one.

I might take a look at the source code myself and see if I can help because I really had a good use for this plasmoid.

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borisdigital

11 years ago

Ip addresses and other hostnames like
localhost etc. will be supported in the
next version (an "insider" told me ;).

Just stay tuned.

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TheAbu

11 years ago

First of all thank you, I find it to be a good idea :)
There seems to be a little problem though, unless I do something wrong or it's related to Gentoo. When I enter, either a server name, or an ip address and close the configuration dialog. I only see "No servers configured" and if I reopen the configuration dialog, the "General" part, where the server should be is empty. It might be the way it's installed on (maybe some write permission problem). Anyway, I wouldn't mind creating a configuration file by hand (We are used to it on Gentoo ;) ) but I'd like to know what syntax I should use and where I should put it :) Thank you in advance J-L

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TheAbu

11 years ago

My bad, after checking the source code I understood why I had an issue. The regex checking simply reject the name of my local network, so, the mistake is on my side, not yours :)

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gabop

11 years ago

¿ What about an ip address ?
It does not seem to handle ip addresses like
xxx.yyy.zzz.www:1234
I vote this thing to be added to wish list.

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mononoke

11 years ago

Hi, i like this plasmoid.

How do you think about adding some features:
1. Possibility to assign an alias for each server.
2. Also it seems impossible to enter ip-adresses.
3. Showing Alias (or Hostname/IP) by choice for every diffrent server.
4. "the number of pings per check" and "interval in minutes" options could be adjustable for every diffrent server.

Maybe a simple table is the easy way for entering the prefered settings.

The Plasmoid could look like this:
X fritz.box
X google.de
0 Susi's Kiste
0 Ubus Laptop

Thanks

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ericb

11 years ago

Great idea really.
But I when one of the servers is not reachable (DNS resolver is actually the blocker in my case) My whole desktop freezes.
This happens periodically on each try.

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acidicchip

11 years ago

In Kubuntu Jaunty (KDE 4.2) it the container doesn't expand with it's contents.

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WMP

12 years ago

In server list i have:

xxxa:80
xxxb
xxxc:80
xxxd:80
xxxe:80

I see warning icon but www work great in this server.

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conrausch

12 years ago

which one shows the warning? one with port number or the one without? also, does it show warning or error? because warning usually means something went wrong locally (maybe wrong/invalid hostname, or s/t like that).

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borisdigital

12 years ago

Wishlist:

configurable iconsmore server status options (online-offline-slow/bad connection?)KDE notifications on server fail etc....


Boris owes Conni a frakkin' cold beer.

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WMP

12 years ago

Please - option to check do con't connect to port 80.

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scomar

12 years ago

++

Quote:# KDE notifications on server fail etc.

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patkoscsaba

12 years ago

More to the wishlist, use of snmp to monitor specific parameters. This way routers and managed switches can be monitored in detail ...

Great idea this plasmoid is :D

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Sheridan

12 years ago

Hi
Can you add ability for check ports on servers? Simple connect/disconnect

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10 years ago

1.5.1
- Update french translation (thanks bruno666)
- Add compatibility for for KDE 4.4 and below

1.5
- Per server notifications
- Panel support (collapse to icon)
- French translation (thanks bruno666)

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