How to Install eZ Server Monitor on Kali Linux

eZ Server Monitor is a simple, open-source server monitoring tool that can check the status of your server components such as CPU usage, memory usage, network traffic, and service availability. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install eZ Server Monitor on Kali Linux.

Prerequisites

  • Kali Linux installed and configured
  • Root access or administrative privileges

Installing Dependencies

  1. First, we need to install some dependencies required for eZ Server Monitor to run. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get update
  1. Install Apache web server and PHP modules by running:
sudo apt-get install apache2 php php-mysql php-curl php-xml php-mbstring libapache2-mod-php
  1. Install necessary packages for eZ Server Monitor by running:
sudo apt-get install libwww-perl libjson-perl libyaml-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libdata-dumper-simple-perl liblog-log4perl-perl

Installing eZ Server Monitor

  1. Download the latest version of eZ Server Monitor from the official website by running:
wget http://www.ezservermonitor.com/esm_preview_latest.tar.gz
  1. Extract the downloaded file by running:
tar -zxvf esm_preview_latest.tar.gz
  1. Move the extracted files to the web directory by running:
sudo mv esm /var/www/html/
  1. Change directory to /var/www/html/esm and rename the config.php.example file to config.php:
cd /var/www/html/esm
sudo mv config.php.example config.php
  1. Make sure the web directory has the necessary permissions by running:
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/esm/
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/esm/
  1. Now, you can access eZ Server Monitor by visiting http://localhost/esm on your web browser.

Configuring eZ Server Monitor

  1. Open the config.php file in a text editor:
sudo nano /var/www/html/esm/config.php
  1. Update the following settings to match your server configuration:
  • MYSQL_HOST - MySQL server hostname
  • MYSQL_USER - MySQL username
  • MYSQL_PASS - MySQL password
  • MYSQL_DB - MySQL database name
  1. Save and close the file.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed eZ Server Monitor on Kali Linux. Now you can monitor your server's health and performance in real-time.