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            <h1>Installing HostMon - Simple Host Monitor and Application Dashboard - on Windows</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 Windows device</li>
	<li>Download the latest HostMon release <a href="https://github.com/i12bretro/HostMon/releases/latest" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Download NodeJS <a href="https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Install NodeJS, accepting all defaults</li>
	<li>Extract the downloaded HostMon files</li>
	<li>Rename the extracted folder HostMon</li>
	<li>Cut the HostMon folder to a location it can safely run from, C:\Program Files\HostMon in this example</li>
	<li>Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space &gt; Open PowerShell windows here...</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in the PowerShell window
	<div class="codeBlock PS"># install dependencies<br />
	npm install<br />
	# run npm audit<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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<h2>Run HostMon as a Service (Optional, but recommended)</h2>

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	<li>Press CTRL + C to kill the running HostMon process</li>
	<li>Click on the Start Button &gt; Type task &gt; Launch Task Scheduler</li>
	<li>Right click the Task Scheduler Library folder in the left pane &gt; Create Basic Task...</li>
	<li>Set the name to HostMon and optionally set a Description &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>For the Trigger, select When the computer starts &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>For the Action, select Start a program &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>Complete the form fields as follows:
	<p>Program/script: &quot;%ProgramFiles%\nodejs\node.exe&quot;<br />
	Add arguments: &quot;%ProgramFiles%\HostMon\server.js&quot;<br />
	Start in: %ProgramFiles%\HostMon</p>
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	<li>Click Next</li>
	<li>Check the Open the Properties dialog checkbox &gt; Click Finish</li>
	<li>In the Properties dialog, click the Change User or Group... button</li>
	<li>Type System in the Object name field &gt; Click OK</li>
	<li>Check the Run with highest privileges box</li>
	<li>Click OK to create the scheduled task</li>
	<li>Right click the HostMon task &gt; Run</li>
	<li>Refresh the open web browser to verify HostMon is now running from the scheduled task</li>
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