Description

This Java based daemon aggregates the status of one ore more jobs from a hudson continous integration server into a single status (red, yellow, green) and invokes a shell script on status change. A sample shell script that switches an Cleware USB traffic light (http://www.cleware.de/produkte/p-usbtischampel.html) is provided.

Installation

Requirements

Hudson Traffic Lights requires at least a Java 5 runtime and $JAVA_HOME has to be set. Clewarecontrol (http://www.vanheusden.com/clewarecontrol/) has to be set up and working. You can get RPM packages for clewarecontrol for alle major RPM based distributions at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pellepelster/.

Ubuntu/Debian

A deb package for easy installation under Ubuntu/Debian linux is provided.

Manual Installation

• Unzip the provided zip file into /usr/share/hudsontrafficlights/
• Copy the sample configuration file from /usr/share/hudsontrafficlights/contrib/hudson_traffic_lights.conf to /etc
• Copy the init script from /usr/share/hudsontrafficlights/contrib/hudsontrafficlights to /etc/initd.d
• Ensure that /usr/share/hudsontrafficlights/bin/traffic_lights_wrapper.sh and the init script are executable

If you choose another installation directory than /usr/share/hudsontrafficlights make sure to adjust your config file and init script.

See it in action

http://hudsontrafficlights.googlecode.com/files/CIMG1635.JPG