goscreenmonit

GoScreenMonit

Project Status: ⚠️ early development

Go Screen Monitor captures screenshots of a logged in user and sends them off to a monitor server.

Screenshots can be viewed by logging in to the web server and selecting a connected agent.

Sample

The client and server are both located in the cmd directory. Use go build to create the executables, then you can use the CLI arguments specified below.

Server

To run the server, do the following:

1. copy the credentials.json.sample to credentials.json in the same directory as the built executable, then modify to add user logins.
2. run genkeypair.sh to generate a tls key pair used for the web server and for agent to server communication.
3. ensure you have a recent version of nodejs installed then run npm install && npm run build inside the ui directory.
4. before running, ensure you have the following directory structure setup:

/goscreenmonit        (root project directory)
  - smserver          (server binary built with `go build ./cmd/smserver`)
  - server.key        (tls key file)
  - server.crt        (tls certificate file)
  - credentials.json  (web server authentication credentials)
  - ui                (ui source directory)
    - build           (directory of the built ui source files)

To run the server, use the following:

$ ./smserver -mserver :3000 -wserver :8080

Client

The client can be run with the following command.

smclient.exe -server 192.168.1.5:3000 -fps 5

You can also install the client on a windows pc with:

smclient.exe install watch -server 192.168.1.5:3000 -fps 5

This will install a watchdog service that will run on every subsequent user login with the specified parameters.

Todo

• Increase security validation between agent and server
• Provide a better authentication mechanism
• Clean up the POC user interface
• Increase data transmission efficiency from web server to UI
• Look into a more efficient screen capture option