Linux Appliance Design: A Hands-on Guide to Building Linux Appliances

Chapter 1 APPLIANCE ARCHITECTURE
 UIs and Daemons
 The Architecture of the Laddie Appliance
 Summary
Chapter 2 MANAGING DAEMONS
 Common Approaches to Managing Daemons
 Control and Status Protocols
 Summary
Chapter 3 USING RUN-TIME ACCESS
 RTA Appliance Architecture
 RTA Daemon Architecture
 Telling RTA About Your Columns and Tables
 Building Your First RTA Program
 A Little SQL
 Introduction to RTA\'s Built-in Tables
 The RTA Table Editor
 Summary
Chapter 4 BUILDING AND SECURING DAEMONS
 How to Build a Daemon
 How to Secure a Daemon
 A Prototype Daemon
 Summary
 Further Reading
Chapter 5 THE LADDIE ALARM SYSTEM: A SAMPLE APPLIANCE
 Introduction to Alarm Systems
 A Functional Specification for Laddie
 Laddie\'s Hardware Design
 Laddie\'s Software Design
 Building and Testing ladd
 Summary
Chapter 6 LOGGING
 Do You Need Logging?
 Architecture of a Logging System
 syslog
 On-Demand Logging
 Summary
Chapter 7 LADDIE EVENT HANDLING
 Rationale for a New Event-Handling System
 Features and Capabilities of logmuxd
 Configuring logmuxd
 Examples Using logmuxd
 Summary
Chapter 8 DESIGNING A WEB INTERFACE
 Web Basics
 Establishing Requirements
 Choosing a Webserver
 UI Design
 Implementation
 Improving Our Design
 Resources
 Summary
Chapter 9 DESIGNING A COMMAND LINE INTERFACE
 Why You Need a CLI
 Types of CLIs
 Giving Users Access to a CLI
 The Laddie CLI
 Code Review for the test Command
 Summary
Chapter 10 BUILDING A FRONT PANEL INTERFACE
 Buttons, LEDs, and LCDs
 Designing a Front Panel UI
 The Laddie Front Panel
 Improving Our Design
 Summary
Chapter 11 DESIGNING A FRAMEBUFFER INTERFACE
 How Video Memory Works
 The Linux Framebuffer Device Driver
 Graphics Libraries
 \"Hello, world!\" with SDL
 Graphical UI Toolkits
 The Laddie Framebuffer UI
 Summary
Chapter 12 INFRARED REMOTE CONTROL
 Communicating with Infrared Light
 Hardware for Remote Control Receivers
 Installing and Configuring LIRC for the Laddie Appliance
 Summary
Chapter 13 HANDS-ON INTRODUCTION TO SNMP
 A Quick Note on Terminology
 The Software
 Installing SNMP
 Exploring with SNMP
 Writing Values with SNMP
 SNMP Traps
 Summary
Chapter 14 DESIGNING AN SNMP MIB
 Our Goal
 Your Enterprise Number
 The MIB Files
 LADDIE-GROUP-SMI
 Creating the LAD-MIB
 Validating Your MIB
 Summary
Chapter 15 IMPLEMENTING YOUR SNMP MIB
 The Net-SNMP Agent
 The MIB Skeleton: mib2c
 The Header File: ladProject.h
 The Code File: ladProject.c
 Makefile Revisited
 Debugging
 Traps
 Summary
Appendix RTA REFERENCE
 Overview of RTA
 RTA Constants
 Data Structures
 API Subroutines
 SELECT and UPDATE Syntax
 Internal RTA Tables
 Debug Configuration
 Error Messages
 Callback Routines
Appendix REVIEW OF SNMP
 Why SNMP?
 Agents and Managers
 Namespace, Grammar, and Protocol
 The MIB
 The OID
 MIB-2
 The SMI
 The SNMP Protocol
 SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3
 SNMP Data Types
 SNMP Tables
 Defining New Types
 Structure of a MIB File
 Summary
Appendix INSTALLING A FRAMEBUFFER DEVICE DRIVER
 Finding Framebuffer Device Drivers for Your Video Card
 Configuring the Framebuffer Device Driver
 Appendix A DB-TO-FILE UTILITY
 Overview
 Table Definitions
 A tbl2filed Example
 Security Notes
Appendix THE LADDIE APPLIANCE BOOTABLE CD
 Running the Laddie Appliance
 Exploring the CD Contents
 Rebuilding the Laddie Appliance