If you have a VPS or Dedicated Server, you might be interested in finding the status of that server without having to wait at a terminal window. Instead, you can run a script that emails you this information about the status of your server.

It works by outputing HTML content containing information on your server, including:

• load average
• memory usage
• open network connections
• top 10 memory processes
• top 10 CPU processes
• netstat output
• top snapshot of all running processes

Download a copy of the script in one of two ways.

Click the following link to download the script to your computer:

• https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/watsonian/server-status-report@master/status.rb

You must then upload the file via FTP.

Log in to your server via SSH. You can then simply run the following command to download the script:

[server]$ curl -s -o status.rb https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/watsonian/server-status-report@master/status.rb

Once you've downloaded the script successfully, you must make sure that the mailx package is installed. To find out, run the following command:

[server]$ dpkg -l | grep mailx

If installed, you'll see the following output.

ii  bsd-mailx     8.1.2-0.20180807cvs-1     simple mail user agent

If instead, you see the following output, you need to install it.

rc  mailx     8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1     A simple mail user agent

admin user. This is because it requires. Once logged in, run the following command:

[server]$ sudo apt-get install mailx

View the Crontab article for details on how to create a cron job under your shell user. Enter the following command in the panel when creating the cron job:

[server]$ /usr/bin/ruby /path/to/script/status.rb | /usr/bin/mail -a "Content-type: text/html;" -s "Status Report: $HOSTNAME" "[email protected]"

If you set everything up properly, then you should start getting emails that look roughly like this:

• VPS optimization overview

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