machine_status

A status page CGI script in Python. Only tested with Apache. If you want to use this, you'll need a configuration file; you can start from status.conf.example. Edit it to match your configuration, rename it status.conf, and put it in the same directory as the script. You might want to configure your server to stop people from downloading the configuration file.

Shows a series of collapsible "cards" with various information. The internal structure is reasonably modular, so it should be relatively easy to modify it to handle a given use case.

The following information is currently shown:

• Identity information: The full DNS domain name, kernel name and release, machine type, and operating system and release.
• Uptime information: The current local time, number of days, hours, and minutes up, number of current user sessions, and load averages.
• Network information: The interface name, address family, connection type, (optionally) tunnel type and peer, address, and whether dynamic for each network configuration given in the configuration file.
• Service information: A nickname, URL, availability status, daemon name, and status printout for each service given in the configuration file.
• The legally-required notice for the GNU Affero General Public License.

The page is valid XHTML, and all of this information is marked up with HTML IDs and the <data> and <time> elements where appropriate, so it should be relatively easy to extract it programmatically. A reasonable amount of effort will be put into keeping IDs stable as layout etc. changes, but sometimes a functional change necessitates disruption.