I am working on a new plug-in that acts as a wrapper for Monit, a system process monitoring app.

 

Here's a description from the app developers website:

 

Monit is an open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

 

The way I have implemented this is by automatically getting your disk info and running a script to monitor disk temps. If the disk is asleep they are not woken up (just like unraid standard webgui does). The difference is if the temperatures get above a user set temp, monit will send an e-mail notifying you. The app can also be setup to if the disk stays above a certain temperature for X number of checks, a command can be executed, such as a script to shutdown unraid. I have not implemented the execution command yet but will add it later on. For now it will notify you of high temps.

 

Also, the plug-in gets your shares and will display the shares usage. It can be setup to notify you if the share gets over a certain percentage full. This notification has not been implemented yet but I hope to add it in the near future.

 

Currently I am also trying to automatically get the MD(actual disk) information to be able and monitor actual disk space usage instead of only share usage.

 

The app can monitor running processes, such as sab, sickbeard and couchpotato. If they were to crash monit checks the pid to see if the app is running and can issue a restart command for the app. I'm having issues passing form information right now but hope to have a separate form where users can add and remove processes from being monitored.

 

Monit can be highly configurable and even as the plug-in is currently it will be installed and the user can modify it to suit their needs. I aim to make it mostly configurable from the webgui and have only scratched the surface so far, hitting what I feel would be main points for the user.

 

The beta test will be simple, not a lot of knowledge is required (might be useful though). The app does NOT modify any system files and should be 100% safe for your system. However I will not guarantee this as it is a beta test. I have been personally running it for over 2 weeks now with no issues.

 

Monit also runs on its own port and can accept a user/pass to allow you to pass it through to access remotely, although it is still weak security (and with notifications you probably won't need it anyway).

 

I'll be accepting a probably 4-5 testers but feel free to post letting me know if this would be a plug-in that would interest you. I'd add more functionality if it looks like the community would be interested. If only a few people would be interested I would probably release as-is since it can be configured outside of the plug-in to do most anything you'd want.

 

PM me if your interested in testing it.

With other similar things available via unMenu how is this different?

 

Don't get me wrong, I want a more deeply configurable monitoring capability but want to make sure I understand the differences in the foundation underneath both.

 

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With other similar things available via unMenu how is this different?

 

Don't get me wrong, I want a more deeply configurable monitoring capability but want to make sure I understand the differences in the foundation underneath both.

 

PM sent.

 

Sent from my mobile

 

I do not use unMenu so I cannot speak to what it offers. I feel I am probably not alone in not using unMenu, not because it does not do what it does well, but I do not need it when the stock offerings + the plug-in system meet my needs.

 

Many aspects of unMenu have been reflected once the plug-in system was released.

 

Again, I don't use it so I can't tell you the differences, I had not realized something like this was currently available. Hopefully this app will be liked, if not, I will release as is and discontinue development.

Not to offend the unmenu developers, but i also do not use unmenu. It has always felt like a stop-gap measure for the former, somewhat poor UI. With new plugins and the recent facelift, i don't feel any need to install it, however, unmenu's long life has meant there have been features developed that I would love to see migrated back to the normal UI. This is one of them, so thanks influencer!

With other similar things available via unMenu how is this different?

 

Don't get me wrong, I want a more deeply configurable monitoring capability but want to make sure I understand the differences in the foundation underneath both

 

I do not use unMenu so I cannot speak to what it offers. I feel I am probably not alone in not using unMenu, not because it does not do what it does well, but I do not need it when the stock offerings + the plug-in system meet my needs.

 

Many aspects of unMenu have been reflected once the plug-in system was released.

 

Again, I don't use it so I can't tell you the differences, I had not realized something like this was currently available. Hopefully this app will be liked, if not, I will release as is and discontinue development.

 

Perhaps it's as simple as out with the old and in with the new. The plug in system is the future.  It's good to see the creativity of the unRaid community and the best new things will survive. I use unMenu and haven't fully explored the plug in world.  I will be soon.

 

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Back to your original post, I'd be more than happy to help beta test.  Hit me up via PM.