### Severus Server Monitor Documentation by Coderior v1

Created: 10th March 2014
By: Coderior
Email: admin@coderior.com

Thank you for purchasing Severus. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email via my user page contact form here. Thanks so much!

## Table of Contents

1. About Severus
2. Installation Instructions
3. Requirements
4. Usage
5. Sources and Credits

### A) About Severus - top

Severus is a standalone application built upon the codeigniter MVC framework, that allows you to monitor the status of all your servers from a single, easy to use interface

We have tried to make it intuitive and easy to use and a lot of the complicated stuff happens in the backend without any input from the user.

Who is it for? It is intended for administrators of dedicated servers and VPSs, but as long as your installation can run "exec" and can view "/proc" you should be fine

Where can I use it? It should work on any linux distro, and there is also support for Windows, however, that should be considered experimental

### B) Installation Instructions - top

You can see a quick video showing the application being uploaded and setting the general options here or go to the usage section to see an embedded version.

1. Unzip and upload files to server
2. Go to http://yourservername.com/folder-installed-into-if-any/install/
3. Fill in the database and admin settings
4. Done

In general you can either put the files in the root or upload the whole folder, the folder can even be installed into a subfolder, it's completely up to you

### C) Requirements - top

We have tried to keep requirements to a minimum, the urls don't use any url rewriting, this should ensure it will work on any HTTPD(apache, nginx, lighttpd etc) without any extra configuration

- PHP 5+
- MySQL
- Any HTTP daemon (nginx/apache/lighttpd, it should even run fine from PHP 5.4's built in daemon, though that is not recommended)

Additional: PHP will need to be able to use "exec" and for linux servers should have permissions to read files in "/proc" in order to get the cpu information and memory usage

### D) Usage - top

The application should be fairly intuitive, but we will go over the basics in the video below

- 0:00 - Upload the script
- 0:41 - Go to the install directory
- 1:16 - Login
- 1:27 - First time install
- 1:31 - Add new server
- 2:19 - Configure server
- 2:47 - Configure services for server
- 3:02 - Add more servers
- 5:25 - Set automatic server checks
- 6:07 - Logout to show without public page being enabled you get just the login screen
- 6:18 - Enable public page
- 6:43 - View public page
- 7:07 - Add new user

Additional: PHP will need to be able to use "exec" and for linux servers should have permissions to read files in "/proc" in order to get the cpu information and memory usage

### E) Sources and Credits - top

I've used the following images, icons or other files as listed.

- Backend is built on the codeigniter MVC framework
- Frontend is built on top of the HTML5 Boilerplate template
- Icons used throughout are from icomoon

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing Severus. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this application. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist.

Coderior

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