Introduction – I have a book…sorta One of the goals of this quarter, as well as the following quarters, is to publish the posts into a book format. My ebook is in draft on Leanpub. I have to admit the markup language and procedures for uploading the content took a bit to get used to. Once I got past that, the content from the posts were a snap to get on the book. Purpose – Whats the big deal about a book?…
Introduction – CactiPi isn’t as hard to eat as you might think. In my earlier post, the RPi command and control features have been an excellent way to show capabilities. Webmin showed how complex admin tasks can be done graphiclly, without the need for a desktop environment. Smokeping was introduced, but not covered in detail. This tool is usefull in identifying host availability on the network, but it doesn’t go much further. This is were Cacti comes into play. This is…
Introduction – time to let the machine do the work In the last installment, I covered command functions to interact with the RPi’s GPIO header. The examples were interactive and had little in the way of full automation. In this discussion, I would like to focus on automating processes. These are tasks that we will define and schedule to run at times we specify. The purpose of this exercise is to establish a foundation for the RPi to run tasks,…