Management interface for network services?
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:17 pm
I just bought myself a Pi3 with a small screen. The idea is to use this Pi as a network appliance which will provide DHCP, DNS (dnsmasq), AMQP, MQTT (RabbitMQ/Mosquitto), REST endpoint (Apache) and more.
This appliance will be used to quickly set up a classroom or lab network where i only would need the physical infrastructure (switch and cables) and the Pi would provide all the networking services.
Because i don't know what the environment will be where i will be using this appliance i bought the screen on top of the Pi case with the idea being that there i show some system stats (most important current IP address), but ideally i would like to have an interface (curses, web, whatever) where i can do things like: switch DHCP on/off, configure the Pi's IP address, the DHCP range, switch services like AMQP, MQTT and Apache on/off. A bit like what Portainer.io is for Docker, but then for the local OS.
Does anyone know of an interface like that?
This appliance will be used to quickly set up a classroom or lab network where i only would need the physical infrastructure (switch and cables) and the Pi would provide all the networking services.
Because i don't know what the environment will be where i will be using this appliance i bought the screen on top of the Pi case with the idea being that there i show some system stats (most important current IP address), but ideally i would like to have an interface (curses, web, whatever) where i can do things like: switch DHCP on/off, configure the Pi's IP address, the DHCP range, switch services like AMQP, MQTT and Apache on/off. A bit like what Portainer.io is for Docker, but then for the local OS.
Does anyone know of an interface like that?