v0.8.5~alpha1 -- introducing amtc-web2

While amtc itself should be stable, amtc-web must still be considered alpha.
Please refer to INSTALL.md for instructions. Any feedback is appreciated.

ChangeLog since v0.8.2

This is a first ALPHA release coming with pre-built binaries/packages for

• RHEL 7 / CentOS7 / Debian 7 / Ubuntu 14.04 (x86_64)
• OS X Yosemite
• Raspbian (arm)

amtc

• Supports some simple configuration items for AMT non-enterprise boxes:
  • enable/disable ping replies in power-off state,
  • enable/disbale SOL / Serial Over LAN
  • enable/disable AMT Web UI
• support for AMT 9.0 graceful shutdown added
• RDP/SSH portscans resolve hostnames, can be enforced if AMT unavailable

amtc-web

• Web-GUI based on EmberJS, Twitter BootStrap ...
• scheduled tasks fully configurable via GUI
• state logging aggregates rooms to make most of amtc's threading capability
• amtc execution decoupled from amtc-web through DB
• binary packages will use cron.d or a LaunchDaemon (OSX) for background exec
• [RPM] user 'amtc-web' is created for background amtc exec
• [OSX/DEB] the webserver user is used for amtc exec

Known issues

• No statelog graphs as in amtc-web1 yet
• Current DB-stored monitoring interval of 1 minute is not GUI-accessible
• In contrast to RPM, the (single) DEB will install amtc and amtc-web (dto OSX)