APIM Service Monitor (APIMON)

This is a Raspberry PI Zero based service Monitor written in Python.

A Flask web server for monitoring the APIM Jira service board and display the number of open tickets on a neopixel led stripe.

Initial Project Setup

1. install the needed python modules make install
2. create an initial git commit (if you start from scratch)
3. create the first version tag like git tag 0.1.0
4. start server be invoke make

Setup automatic start

Copy the service config file into place:

sudo cp etc/apimon.service /etc/systemd/system/

Edit the file to change the path to the apimon directory. Setup and start the service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable apimon
sudo systemctl start apimon
sudo systemctl stop apimon
sudo systemctl status apimon
sudo systemctl restart apimon

Read the logs:

journalctl -fu apimon

Setup automatic update

Configure a cronjob to execute the script ./bin/update_and_restart.sh

For example like this:

*/5 * * * * /path/to/update_and_restart.sh >> /path/to/update_and_restart.log 2>&1

Configure Unattended OS Upgrades

See this link: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades