(formerly inventory-management-system)
NOTE: The system was developed for use at ETHZ/LOC and may not directly transfer to other use cases
This is a Django/SQLite-powered website for simple inventory management that allows check-in/check-out of bottles and viewing their status
Install dependencies with poetry from the provided pyproject.toml
Additional configuration during installation:
Set up a daily database backup.
A convenience script is provided in utilities/.
Ensure you have a directory backup/ in your project root.
Open the user's cronjobs with crontab -e, then add this line:
0 1 * * * ./<path_to_project_root>/utilities/database_backup.shSet up a crontab to run the update from Expereact every 3 h. This consists of two parts on two different machines Machine A needs access to the expereact server. Machine B is the production machine.
On machine A, set up a cronjob to run the script utilities/inventory_download.sh.
Open the user's cronjobs with crontab -e, then add this line:
0 */3 * * * ./<path_to_project_root>/utilities/inventory_download.shIn addition, machine A needs to hold an SSH key that allows connection to machine B and
the environment_variable SSH_PASSPHRASE must be set to the passphrase of the key.
On machine B, set up a cronjob to run the convenience script utilities/inventory_update.sh.
Open the user's cronjobs with crontab -e, then add this line:
30 */3 * * * ./<path_to_project_root>/utilities/inventory_update.sh