docs: add UI screenshots and logging section

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# 🖥️ Update Manager - Version: 0.3.0
# 🖥️ Update Manager
Simple CLI tool to check and manage updates across multiple Ubuntu systems over SSH.
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## Features
* Check updates on multiple hosts
* Run checks remotely over SSH
* Run updates remotely over SSH
* Interactive CLI menu (dialog-based UI)
* Centralized logging
* Simple config files
* Built-in logging (file + terminal)
* Dialog-based UI menu
* No agents required
* Works with existing SSH setup
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## Update Manager UI
### Main menu
<p align="center">
<img src="update-manager-ui.png" width="50%" alt="Update Manager CLI UI">
<img src="docs/images/menu-main.png" width="50%" alt="Main menu">
</p>
### Log menu
<p align="center">
<img src="docs/images/menu-logs.png" width="50%" alt="Log menu">
</p>
<p align="center">
<em>Lightweight • Terminal-based • Works over SSH</em>
<em>Lightweight • No dependencies • Works over SSH</em>
</p>
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@ -54,7 +62,7 @@ git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USER/update-manager.git
cd update-manager
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y dialog openssh-client
sudo apt install dialog openssh-client
sudo mkdir -p /opt/update-manager
sudo cp update-manager.sh update-manager-ui.sh dialogrc /opt/update-manager/
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sudo chmod +x /opt/update-manager/update-manager.sh
sudo chmod +x /opt/update-manager/update-manager-ui.sh
sudo ln -sf /opt/update-manager/update-manager.sh /usr/local/bin/update-manager
sudo ln -sf /opt/update-manager/update-manager-ui.sh /usr/local/bin/update-manager-ui
sudo ln -s /opt/update-manager/update-manager.sh /usr/local/bin/update-manager
sudo ln -s /opt/update-manager/update-manager-ui.sh /usr/local/bin/update-manager-ui
```
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## Usage
### Check updates
```bash
update-manager check
```
### Start UI
```bash
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---
### Check updates (CLI)
```bash
update-manager check
```
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## Logging
The tool logs both to terminal and file.
### Primary location
Log file location:
```bash
/opt/update-manager/log/update-manager.log
```
### Fallback location
View log:
```bash
~/update-manager/log/update-manager.log
less /opt/update-manager/log/update-manager.log
```
### Notes
Follow log:
* Log directory is created automatically
* Log file is created automatically
* Output is written to both terminal and file
* Log levels:
* INFO
* WARN
* ERROR
Logs can be viewed directly from the UI.
```bash
tail -f /opt/update-manager/log/update-manager.log
```
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├── update-manager-ui.sh
├── update-manager.conf
├── hosts.conf
── log/
└── update-manager.log
── log/
└── update-manager.log
```
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* Uses SSH to connect to each host
* Runs `apt` commands remotely
* Logs results locally
* No agents or services needed
* Designed for simple and efficient operations
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* SSH access to all hosts
* SSH keys recommended (no password prompts)
* Ubuntu/Debian-based systems
* `dialog` (for UI)
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* 🔔 Notifications (ntfy / push alerts)
* 🌐 Web interface
* 📧 Email reporting
* 📜 Advanced logging / audit trail
* 📊 Basic monitoring (status, last check, pending updates)
* 🧩 Plugin system (extensible modules)
* 🔐 Security & compliance checks

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if [[ -f "$primary" ]]; then
echo "$primary"
else
elif [[ -f "$fallback" ]]; then
echo "$fallback"
else
echo ""
fi
}
show_log_menu() {
while true; do
log_choice=$(dialog --clear \
--backtitle "Update Manager" \
--title "Log menu" \
--menu "Select log action:" 18 60 10 \
1 "View full log" \
2 "Follow log live" \
3 "Show log location" \
4 "Show last 20 log lines" \
0 "Back" \
3>&1 1>&2 2>&3)
clear
case "$log_choice" in
1)
log_file="$(get_log_file)"
if [[ -n "$log_file" ]]; then
less "$log_file"
else
echo "No log file found yet."
read -rp "Press Enter to continue..."
fi
;;
2)
log_file="$(get_log_file)"
if [[ -n "$log_file" ]]; then
echo "Press Ctrl+C to stop"
tail -n 20 -f "$log_file"
else
echo "No log file found yet."
fi
read -rp "Press Enter to continue..."
;;
3)
log_file="$(get_log_file)"
if [[ -n "$log_file" ]]; then
echo "Log file:"
echo "$log_file"
else
echo "No log file found yet."
fi
read -rp "Press Enter to continue..."
;;
4)
log_file="$(get_log_file)"
if [[ -n "$log_file" ]]; then
tail -n 20 "$log_file"
else
echo "No log file found yet."
fi
read -rp "Press Enter to continue..."
;;
0|"")
break
;;
esac
done
}
while true; do
choice=$(dialog --clear \
--backtitle "Update Manager" \
--title "Choose an action" \
--menu "Select option:" 16 60 9 \
--menu "Select option:" 20 60 10 \
1 "Check all hosts" \
2 "View hosts file" \
3 "Edit hosts file" \
4 "Add host" \
5 "Remove host" \
6 "View full log" \
7 "Follow log live" \
8 "Show log location" \
6 "Log menu" \
0 "Exit" \
3>&1 1>&2 2>&3)
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read -rp "Press Enter to continue..."
;;
2)
if [[ -f "$HOSTS_FILE" ]]; then
less "$HOSTS_FILE"
else
echo "Hosts file not found: $HOSTS_FILE"
read -rp "Press Enter to continue..."
fi
;;
3)
nano "$HOSTS_FILE"
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read -rp "Name: " name
read -rp "IP: " ip
read -rp "User: " user
if [[ -z "$name" || -z "$ip" || -z "$user" ]]; then
echo "All fields are required."
else
echo "$name $ip $user" >> "$HOSTS_FILE"
echo "Host added."
fi
read -rp "Press Enter to continue..."
;;
5)
if [[ -f "$HOSTS_FILE" ]]; then
nl -w2 -s'. ' "$HOSTS_FILE"
read -rp "Line to remove: " line
if [[ "$line" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
sed -i "${line}d" "$HOSTS_FILE"
echo "Host removed."
else
echo "Hosts file not found: $HOSTS_FILE"
echo "Invalid line number."
fi
read -rp "Press Enter to continue..."
;;
6)
less "$(get_log_file)"
;;
7)
echo "Following log: $(get_log_file)"
echo "Press Ctrl+C to stop."
tail -f "$(get_log_file)"
read -rp "Press Enter to continue..."
;;
8)
echo "Log file:"
echo "$(get_log_file)"
read -rp "Press Enter to continue..."
show_log_menu
;;
0|"")
clear