MQTT OS Status

Operating-system related data, published to an MQTT broker at fixed intervals.

Install as a service on Raspberry Pi

These instructions are for Raspbian on Raspberry Pi but could easily be adapted to most Linux distributions.

npm install -g forever

Copy etc/init.d/mqtt-os-status to /etc/init.d and make it executable

sudo su
cp etc/init.d/mqtt-os-status /etc/init.d/mqtt-os-status
chmod a+x /etc/init.d/mqtt-os-status

Edit the node binary paths and app paths in the script is necessary

After putting the script in place, you should update the system service definitions:

update-rc.d mqtt-os-status defaults

Run or check on the script and its process with the following commands:

service mqtt-os-status start
service mqtt-os-status status
service mqtt-os-status restart
service mqtt-os-status stop