Rachid Groeneveld wrote:

> I've been looking at PiHole and Firewalla and I like how those dashboards
> are pleasing to the eye and wanted to achieve the same within IPFire. I
> think it's quite possible and IPFire hosts way more functionality, so why
> not the fancy dashboard? With that in mind I looked for info on the themes
> in IPF, I found that someone - a few years ago - already created an admin
> dashboard, but I never received responses to my communication attempts. So
> I thought, what the heck, I'll just create the dashboard myself, but in
> order to actually - have a dashboard - I need metrics. PiHole has an FTL
> implementation which includes (parts of) Unbound and they're able to show
> quite a bit of interesting information (see attachment, apologies for the
> size I had to google it). Firewalla has the same, but is more tailored to
> SOHO and is managed through an app.
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> TLDR; I want the dashboard to show metrics you can work with, like PiHole
> does. The whole controlling DNS and traffic part is not yet part of the
> scope. I already queried the network info (I used parts of other cgi's),
> DNS is the next step and then firewall stats (blocked/dropped, maybe per
> country etc.)
>  

Looking at what you are trying to do, I think you need at least 2 programs. 
The first would gather your time series data and save this to a file or an 
RRD or similar and would be updated from cron. This would allow root to run  
“unbound-control stats_noreset" but the data would be accessible to user 
nobody.

A second perl cgi program would then read the time series data and display 
it through the IPFire web interface.

For inspiration have a look at my adslmonitor addon for IPCop which does 
something similar.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/adslmonitor/

 

Rob