{"id":202,"date":"2017-04-15T02:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T02:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.warbel.net\/?p=202"},"modified":"2017-04-15T02:03:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T02:03:15","slug":"monitoring-plex-with-plexpy-on-ubuntu-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.warbel.net\/index.php\/2017\/04\/15\/monitoring-plex-with-plexpy-on-ubuntu-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Plex with Plexpy on Ubuntu 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

Background:<\/h1>\n

Plex, for a multi-user multi-media system, lacks detailed logging and monitoring.\u00a0A colleague recently pointed out to me that another system, PlexPY exists to fill that gap. This blog post will walk through the steps I took to integrate the system into my reverse proxy and setup init scripts.
\nPlexpy itself, has quite good documentation here (for initial setup)<\/a> and here (for creating system init scripts)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Creating a new service:<\/h1>\n

This is straightforward, and can be done by following the documentation above. No changes were necessary to have it running on Ubuntu 16.04.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Create the user to run the service:\n
    sudo adduser --system --no-create-home plexpy<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Change the ownership of the file structure to allow the new user to modify the files:\n
    sudo chown plexpy:nogroup -R \/opt\/plexpy<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  3. Create the init script:\n
    sudo vi \/lib\/systemd\/system\/plexpy.service<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  4. Put the following in the file:\n
    [Unit]\r\nDescription=PlexPy - Stats for Plex Media Server usage\r\n\r\n[Service]\r\nExecStart=\/opt\/plexpy\/PlexPy.py --quiet --daemon --nolaunch --config \/opt\/plexpy\/config.ini --datadir \/opt\/plexpy\r\nGuessMainPID=no\r\nType=forking\r\nUser=plexpy\r\nGroup=nogroup\r\n\r\n[Install]\r\nWantedBy=multi-user.target<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  5. Reload the services, enable plexpy and start it:\n
    sudo systemctl daemon-reload; sudo systemctl enable plexpy.service; sudo service plexpy start<\/pre>\n
    <\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Configuring Apache reverse proxy to allow access:<\/h1>\n
      \n
    1. Shutdown Apache and PlexPY:\n
      sudo service plexpy stop\r\nsudo service apache2 stop<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
    2. Change the settings in PlexPY to make it work behind a reverse proxy. Edit the config file and change the lines to:\n
      http_root = \/plexpy\r\nhttp_proxy = 1<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
    3. Edit your Apache reverse config file for the domain hosting plexpy:\n
      ProxyPass \/plexpy http:\/\/Local_IP_of_plexpy:8181\/plexpy\/\r\nProxyPassReverse \/plexpy http:\/\/Local_IP_of_plexpy:8181\/plexpy\/<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
    4. Start the services again:\n
      sudo service plexpy start\r\nsudo service apache2 start<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
    5. Test:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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