Shepherd-Herd
Main Documentation: https://nes-lab.github.io/shepherd/tools/herd
Main Project: https://github.com/nes-lab/shepherd
Source Code: https://github.com/nes-lab/shepherd/tree/main/software/shepherd-herd
Shepherd-herd is the command line utility for controlling a group of shepherd observers remotely through an IP-based network.
This is the key user interface for a private shepherd instance in the same network.
The python package must be installed on the user's local machine and sends commands to the sheep via ssh.
Installation
shepherd-herd is a python package and available on PyPI.
Use your python package manager to install it.
For example, using pip:
pip3 install shepherd-herd
For install directly from GitHub-Sources (here dev-branch):
pip install git+https://github.com/nes-lab/shepherd.git@dev#subdirectory=software/shepherd-herd -U
For install from local sources:
cd shepherd/software/shepherd-herd/
pip3 install . -U
Usage
For details either use the help provided by the tool or have a look into the documentation
Usage with Windows is possible, but not recommended.
At least the unittests are flakey after 5+ tests and can result in zombie-threads crashing the program.
Library-Examples
See example-files for details.
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