Your 'Systant. A system daemon on Linux that communicates via MQTT to get diagnostic info from, and send commands to, a Linux computer.
Written in Elixir because fuck you, and written mostly by Claude because fuck everything.
Features: - MQTT subscriber GenServer connects to mqtt.home - Real-time host discovery via systant/+/stats topic - LiveView with Phoenix PubSub for instant updates - Host cards showing live data and last seen timestamps - Clean UI with Tailwind styling - Proper OTP supervision tree Dashboard ready to receive live data from systant hosts! Visit /hosts to see real-time monitoring. |
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Systant
An Elixir application that runs as a systemd daemon to:
- Publish system stats to MQTT every 30 seconds
- Listen for commands over MQTT and log them to syslog
Configuration
Edit config/config.exs to configure MQTT connection:
config :systant, Systant.MqttClient,
host: "localhost",
port: 1883,
client_id: "systant",
username: nil,
password: nil,
stats_topic: "system/stats",
command_topic: "system/commands",
publish_interval: 30_000
Building
mix deps.get
mix compile
Running
# Development
mix run --no-halt
# Production release
MIX_ENV=prod mix release
_build/prod/rel/systant/bin/systant start
Systemd Installation
- Build production release
- Copy binary to
/usr/local/bin/ - Copy
systant.serviceto/etc/systemd/system/ - Enable and start:
sudo systemctl enable systant
sudo systemctl start systant
Features
- Publishes "Hello from systant" stats every 30 seconds to
system/statstopic - Listens on
system/commandstopic and logs received messages - Configurable MQTT connection settings
- Runs as systemd daemon with auto-restart
- Logs to system journal