status_dashboard
The Status Dashboard module is developed to monitor Drupal sites. The module review available updates for Drupal core version and Drupal modules and displays them in the dashboard.
Status Dashboard is provides for developers to track information about updates from Drupal system of multiple sites. This makes it possible to have all information about updates of the Drupal version and modules of all Drupal sites on the dashboard.
The module has such functionality as sending a notification to the Email. In the Email notification settings, you can select the mail address, frequency of sending and type of notification.
For the module to work, you need to install on the client sites the module www.drupal.org/project/status_dashboard_client.
How to use Status Dashboard module?
To install and configure the Status Dashboard module, follow the steps below:
- Install the Status Dashboard module with composer
composer require drupal/status_dashboard - Enable the module
- Open configuration form on URL /admin/config/development/status-dashboard
- Add the data to the URL AND SECRET fieldset which has the property multiple :
- URL - the name of the client site whose updates you want to monitor.
- Secret - secret data for connecting with client site.
- If you want to receive notifications by mail, then you need to fill the EMAIL
NOTIFICATIONS fieldset by clicking the Enable email notifications checkbox:- Email - Email address for sending notifications.
- Period - Notification frequency which consists of three periods (Daily,
Weekly, Monthly). - Notification types - Types of updates (Core updates, Security updates, Feature
updates) to be sent to the specified email
- Install on client sites the supporting module Status Dashboard Client with composer
composer require drupal/status_dashboard_client - Enable the module
- Open configuration form on URL /admin/config/development/status-dashboard-
client - Add data for the Secret field, which is specified in the main site for connecting to this
site.
The Status Dashboard module will monitor updates on client sites after each cron run and will display the information on the dashboard. To go to the dashboard, you need to click on Status Dashboard in Administration menu.
Dependency
On client sites you have to install the supporting module.