System Dashboard

System Dashboard is a TUI (text-based user interface) dashboard for FreeGateway systems, whether they are fully customized Gateway systems or servers running FreeGateway software. It gives you most of the convenience of a web-based dashboard without the security impacts. It is written in C++23 using the FTXUI library for terminal-based user interfaces.

Secure by design

FreeGateway rejects the security compromises of a web-based dashboard for critical infrastructure. System Dashboard is reached over SSH, using only SSH certificates, and it runs in a terminal session, so it adds no web interface to the system.

Everything about the host in one place

System Dashboard presents easy-to-read information about the system it runs on:

CPU architecture and features
BIOS information and date
Operating system details
Memory devices and their capacities
ZFS pools and datasets
Network interfaces
Storage devices
DHCP leases, on systems that run a DHCP server

Screenshots

The System tab shows the host’s hardware and operating system. The Devices tab lists its storage and network devices. Identifying details have been blacked out.

System Dashboard, System tab: general information, operating system, motherboard, BIOS, CPU, memory and graphics

System Dashboard, Devices tab: NVMe and SATA storage devices and network interfaces

Read-only for now

System Dashboard is currently read-only. The ability to make changes is in development. For example, registering DynDNS clients will be possible from it.

System Dashboard is separate from the Kojo Dashboard, the web-based interface for managing a Kojo email system.

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