[Tutor] Need suggestion / advice - controlling remote server

[dave selby]

Hi all,

I am after some advice / suggestions. I have written web interface for
viewing CCTV images http://code.google.com/p/kmotion/wiki/ScreenShots
its called 'kmotion'. Underneath its all Python daemons. It usually
runs stand alone on headless servers. Now I am about to write a KDE
interface in Python  QT4 for config  local viewing.

The question is how to communicate with the remote kmotion servers
Python daemons. I could access the images via port 80, no prob but I
need the KDE interface to change configs etc and restart services. I
am thinking of getting the KDE interface to ssh in and do the changes
via shell commands, ie change config files, restarts deamons etc,
should work OK. Is this acceptable ? How would you guys do it ?

Thanks in advance

Dave

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Re: [Tutor] Need suggestion / advice - controlling remote server

[Alan Gauld]

dave selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

 The question is how to communicate with the remote kmotion servers
 Python daemons. I could access the images via port 80, no prob but I
 need the KDE interface to change configs etc and restart services.

You should still be able to do thast via a web interface. Restarts
are probably the trickiest becauyse you need to be able to pick
up again with the admin interface after the restart. But its not that 
tricky.

 ...getting the KDE interface to ssh in and do the changes

That will work too, but a web admin is probably easier for users
since you don't need to maintain a thick client on the desktop.

Alan G 


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