About istatd

istatd is a daemon serving statistics to your iStat iPhone application from Linux, Solaris & FreeBSD. istatd collects data such as CPU, memory, network and disk usage and keeps the history. Once connecting from the iPhone and entering the lock code this data will be sent to the iPhone and shown in fancy graphs.

What is iStat for iPhone?

iStat is a iPhone application developed by Bjango (http://www.bjango.com/). With iStat you can remotely monitor CPU, memory, disks, uptime and load averages from any Mac, Linux or Solaris computer from your iPhone. You can download iStat in iTunes App Store.

How to install

These steps assume you are logged in as root and have GNU build tools installed together with libxml2.

1. Download istatd-x.x.x.tar.gz

   wget http://github.com/downloads/tiwilliam/istatd/istatd-x.x.x.tar.gz

2. Extract tar ball

   tar -xvf istatd-x.x.x.tar.gz

3. Install dependencies

   istatd requires GNU build tools, libxml2 and libxml2-devel. Depending on your distribution these packages can be diffrently named.

   CentOS

   yum install libxml2-devel autoconf

   Ubuntu

   apt-get install libxml2-dev autoconf

4. Build istatd

   cd istatd-x.x.x

   ./autogen

   Here you can configure where you want your binary and config to end up (default /usr/local).

   ./configure

   or

   ./configure --prefix=/ --sysconfdir=/etc

   make

   make install

5. Add user and configure directories

   useradd istat

   mkdir -p /var/{run,cache}/istat

   chown istat.istat /var/{run,cache}/istat

6. Configure your config to match your needs and system

   cp resource/istat.conf /etc/

   vim /etc/istat.conf

   Note: Don't forget to change your server_code.

7. Fire it up

   /usr/bin/istatd -d