Ajenti 1.0 home dashboard

introduction

For three and a half long years we went to the release.



Ajenti is a fast-paced web administration dashboard for Linux and FreeBSD, an alternative to Webmin, and today I have the honor to announce the upcoming release of stable version 1.0 .

What's new?

General Updates

• The interface now uses WebSockets to communicate with the server, reducing latency and increasing speed.
  
• User accounts with the ability to set access rights.
  
• Automatic HTTPS certificate generator - no excuses for unencrypted traffic!
  
• Less traffic: interface updates are sent to JSON, and HTML is generated in the browser.
  
• Localization: translation into 17 languages, including Russian.
  
• Plugins: additional dependencies are installed with one click.
  
• Terminals open as tabs inside the Ajenti window.
  
• Support for working inside a sub-URL (http: // host / ajenti) via NGINX.
  

For developers

Now Ajenti is a full-fledged web platform for developing frontends to various services, or just service web applications.

• Stateful work model (with state preservation) - no longer need to think about saving data in a session or processing HTTP requests - the state of the application and interface is saved automatically, development is closer to desktop applications than to websites.
  
• UI-bindings: automatic data binding with the interface.
  
• Intents - convenient interaction between plugins, for example, you can open the Notepad plugin with a given file from the File Manager plugin.
  

Plugins

• Support for Samba CTDB.
  
• MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins that allow you to execute SQL queries and manage users and databases.
  
• NFS Management Plugin.
  
• The “File Systems” plugin includes information about disk usage and allows you to (mount) file systems.
  
• IPTables: comments on rules, a cleaner interface, clever options (--sport adds --protocol tcp, etc.).
  
• LM-Sensors plugin for displaying temperatures.
  
• Logs are displayed in real time (tail -f).
  
• Displays the status of LSI MegaRAID arrays.
  
• Munin: graphics are proxied through Ajenti, a direct connection between the browser and Munin is no longer required.
  
• Netatalk Plugin (AFPD).
  
• Network plugin: display traffic and speed.
  
• NSD DNS Server Plugin.
  
• Power plugin displays battery usage.
  
• The script widget allows you to run a given command from the main page.
  
• RAID Status Display (mdadm).
  
• SMART Widget
  
• Services from Sys-V, Upstart and Supervisor are combined and displayed in a single "Services" plugin (and can be controlled by widgets).
  
• The process manager is now much faster.
  
• Terminals also connect via WebSockets.

Installation

Supported Platforms:

• Debian 6+
• Ubuntu 10.04+
• CentOS 6+
• RHEL 6+
• Freebsd

Installation instructions

References

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