PHP for server status

[Sejtan]

Hello Everyone,

I'm working on a simple website to display server info.
Using these commands to display info about HDD.
$disks[] = array("name" => "Disk1" , "path" => '/mnt/disk1') ;
$disks[] = array("name" => "Disk2" , "path" => '/mnt/disk2') ;

Using Unraid. When I get in the terminal and type
cd /mnt there I see my disks.

Wondering, is that right?

 

[CyklonDX]

If you are looking for disk stats you need to look at /dev/ , but the info may be in very unformatted format. There may be dedicated tools to read stats you want.

mnt only shows 'mounted' devices (i.e. a partition created by in your case unraid, not actual disks), and does not include actual disk stats, but then again depends what kind of stats you are looking for.


On other hand i think it'd be better to create grafana influxdb, setup graphs of what you want, and use php to pull up each of those as iframes on your php site without exposing yourself to potential security exploits by having php doing rooted commands. (there should be code snippets publicly for all kinds of websites for embedding grafana dashboards, and single graphs.)
(grafana dashboards are quite customizable)

 

[wsuff]

Netdata can also do similar to above. GitHub - netdata/netdata: Monitor your servers, containers, and applications, in high-resolution and in real-time!
Core plugins for disk space like you mentioned monitoring among many other things.

It's really finding what works for you Many ways to do what you propose and likely just as many ideas on how to get there. I concur that not dealing with the raw output yourself is a much better option and less error/abuse prone.