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            <h1>Installing HostMon - Simple Host Monitor and Application Dashboard - on Linux</h1>
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          <h2>What is HostMon?</h2>

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<p><em>HostMon is a simple web-based host monitor and application dashboard. It can be used to monitor the real-time status of hosts and services running in your homelab environment. In addition to monitoring, HostMon has built-in Wake-On-LAN (WOL) capability, SSH client, real-time ping output and the ability to link to your existing Apache Guacamole installation to remotely control hosts from the within browser.<br />
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The HostMon application is written in javascript and uses a SQLite database backend. -<a href="https://github.com/i12bretro/HostMon" target="_blank">https://github.com/i12bretro/HostMon</a></em></p>
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	<li>Log into the Linux device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in a terminal window
	<div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install available software updates<br />
	sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
	# install prerequisites<br />
	sudo apt install git curl -y<br />
	# add nodejs software repository<br />
	curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo bash -<br />
	# install nodejs<br />
	sudo apt install nodejs -y<br />
	# clone the hostmon git repository<br />
	git clone https://github.com/i12bretro/hostmon.git ./hostmon<br />
	# change directory to the source code<br />
	cd hostmon<br />
	# clean npm cache<br />
	npm cache clean --force<br />
	# install npm dependencies<br />
	npm install<br />
	# fix npm vulnerabilities<br />
	npm audit fix<br />
	# run hostmon<br />
	node ./server.js</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3000</li>
	<li>Welcome to HostMon</li>
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