Linux Appliance Design
A Hands-On Guide to Building Linux Appliances
By Smith Bob, Bill Pierce, John Hardin, Graham Phillips
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Book Description
Linux appliances are computers that serve a single, well-defined purpose. Modern appliances are complex machines, with processors, operating systems, and application software. For example, the Tivo is essentially a Linux-based computer with a single purpose: recording television. While there are booContinue
Book Details
- English Books
- Paperback 385 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1593271409
- ISBN-13: 9781593271404
- Publisher: No Starch Press
- Pub date: Mar 31, 2007
- Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1161 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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Understand Linux via building Linux Appliances
This book lets you study or review the Linux os by walking through the guidelines and recommendations of making a sample appliance.
The sample appliance, namely Laddie Alarm System, monitors up to five zones and raises an alarm when a change occurs in one of the monitored zone. Alarms are reported ... (continue)
This book lets you study or review the Linux os by walking through the guidelines and recommendations of making a sample appliance.
The sample appliance, namely Laddie Alarm System, monitors up to five zones and raises an alarm when a change occurs in one of the monitored zone. Alarms are reported to this system's five user interfaces which are SNMP, WEB, CLI, LCD and Framebuffer. In addition to being view the status of the zones that it monitors. The user interfaces allow you test and clear alarms, view logs and configure zones.
After studying this book, you will get these knowledges
1. What is daemons? How to build, to manage and to secure it?
2. How to use Run Time Access (RTA) to allow five different UI mentioned above to get status and set configuration using only one daemon-side protocol. The API defined by RTA is that of a PostgreSQL database
3. Design WEB interface
4. Design Command Line Interface (CLI)
5. Build a front panel interface
6. design a FrameBuffer Interface
7. Understand SNMP and design and implement an SNMP MIB
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