[script] updated script post to server

Author: MF Softworks

README.md

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 The Python script is designed to be run as a cronjob on every boot to run in the background.
 The script will gather information:
 
+- UUID (Unique for each system to avoid overlapping hostname for multi-network monitoring)
+- Hostname
 - CPU
 - Memory
 - Network
@@ -52,11 +54,12 @@ Example:
     ],
     "network_up": 54,
     "network_down": 4150,
-    "timestamp" : "2018-10-10 01:41:21"
+    "timestamp" : "2018-10-10T01:41:21+00:00",
+    "uuid" : 180331603484325
 }
 ```
 
-The script includes a function to send JSON to a remote server.
+The script includes a function to POST JSON to a remote server.
 
 This script can be installed on several machines that report to a central monitoring server.
 

monitor.py

@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ def send_data(data):
         try:
             # endpoint = monitoring server
             endpoint = "http://monitor.localhost.local/api/"
-            response = requests.get(url = endpoint, params = {"data" : data})
-            print("\nGET:")
+            response = requests.post(url = endpoint, params = {"data" : data})
+            print("\nPOST:")
             print("Response:", response.status_code)
             print("Headers:")
             pprint.pprint(response.headers)
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def send_data(data):
                 print("No JSON content")
             break
         except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
-            print("\nGET Error:\n",e)
+            print("\POST Error:\n",e)
             # Sleep 1 minute before retrying
             time.sleep(60)
     else: