Xibo

Batch deployment of Xibo?

Asked by Gerard Sweeney

Hello, there..

The PTB have come up with the bright notion of having every one of our 30+ schools running some form of digital signage. Since it's so good, I've been looking seriously at using Xibo.

The schools will be running a simple single-PC (WinXP) setup, so the server and client will be hosted on the one PC.

My "template setup" refers to 127.0.0.1 for the Xibo server, so I (in theory?!?) shouldn't need to worry about the IP addresses being different.

Is there a way I can batch-deploy the Xibo/Xampp setup via a script?

I can't use disk imaging, as there's umpteen models of PCs.

It does appear to simply be several unzipped folders, and then a couple of modules of XAMPP running as a service.

Does anyone know the command lines needed to do the necessary service setups? (copying it over etc is easy enough)

Kind regards,
Gerard

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Best Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

Scripting the Xibo install should be simple enough (ie copy in the server files and restore a pre-setup mysql db).

XAMPP I'm not sure about though. Your question rephrased would probably be best addressed to them directly.

Or, if you can hold off for a little longer you could run a 1.1.x server (with the understanding that it's development code) and use user/group/display security to make it look like each school has their own instance...

Alex

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Gerard Sweeney (gerardsweeney) said : 		#2

Thanks Alex Harrington, that solved my question.

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Gerard Sweeney (gerardsweeney) said : 		#3

I should say I've not tried it yet, but it looks do-able... The guide for Xammp shows a list of the BAT files involved to install/start services, so fingers crossed..

Keep up the fantastic work

Kind regards,
Gerard

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#4

Larry K has been doing some work on Xibo in a SaaS scenario. He's written a Perl script to do auto-installs of the Xibo part of the process and to automate upgrades.

His code is in here:
http://code.google.com/p/xibo-conference/

I've not had a chance to look at it properly yet or try it so any problems to Larry directly :D

Cheers

Alex