Raspberry Pi Status Updater

Author: Ashley Cawley // @ashleycawley

This script is designed to get the client computer (Raspberry Pi) to publish its status to a central (web) server, with the idea of multiple different systems all publishing their status to that central server so that the Administrator has one easy place to view the general health and uptime of the systems or IOT devices.

An example of some of data the client system would publish would be:

Hostname
Uptime
Load
Logged on Users
LAN IP Address
WAN IP Address
MAC Address
CPU Temperature
GPU temperatures
Free disk space

Whilst this script will install itself it does require the you to specify some settings in order to configure it properly, this is explained in more detail below.

Self Installer

The Bash script contains a self-installer, it checks to see if it is already present in /usr/local/bin and if it is not then it copies itself to that location and then schedules a task (via the crontab) to trigger itself on a regular basis (eg. hourly).

Setup

This is a work in progress

So at this point I would probably recommend not following these setup instructions.

Prerequisites

For this project to work you will need:

A Web Hosting service that allows SSH access
An ability to setup Key-Based Authentication for SSH
A Raspberry Pi (or other Linux sytem you wish to monitor)
Ability to edit a script to change some easy settings (variables)

1) Download the update-status.sh script to your system:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashleycawley/raspberry-pi-status/master/update-status.sh

2) Edit the update-status.sh script and configure the settings:

REMOTESERVER="status.YourWebServer.co.uk" - Hostname of your Remote Web Server USERNAME=pistatus Username on your Remote Server