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  • # bbbmon
    
    A small python based CLI utility to monitor BigBlueButton-Usage. 
    
    ## Installation
    
    The easiest way to install bbbmon is to install it from the Python Package Index (PyPi). This project uses [python poetry](https://python-poetry.org/) for dependency management, so you could also run it without installing the package system wide, see instructions below.
    
    ## Install with pip3
    
    ```bash
    sudo pip3 install bbbmon --upgrade
    ```
    
    Then run with:
    
    ```bash
    bbbmon
    ```
    
    ## Run with poetry (without pip)
    
    Clone the repo:
    
    ```bash
    git clone https://code.hfbk.net/bbb/bbbmon.git
    ```
    
    Make sure you have poetry installed. Install instruction for poetry can be [found here](https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation).
    From inside the project directory run:
    
    ```bash
    poetry install
    ```
    
    Run bbbmon with:
    
    ```bash
    
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    poetry run bbbmon
    
    Run `bbbmon config --new` to create a new default configuration file. bbbmon will always ask you before it creates or overwrites anything.
    
    Within the config you can define one or more endpoints with running bbb instances – each with it's secret and bigbluebutton-URL. You can find the secret on your server in it's config-file via 
    
    ```bash
    cat /usr/share/bbb-web/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties | grep securitySalt=
    ```
    
    
    A example configuration file could look like this:
    ```toml
    [bbb.example.com]
    securitySalt=MY_SUPER_SECRET_SECRET
    bigbluebutton.web.serverURL=https://bbb.example.com/
    
    
    securitySalt=MY_SUPER_SECRET_SECRET2
    bigbluebutton.web.serverURL=https://bbb.foo.com/
    ```
    
    The section names in the square brackets can be chosen arbitrarily (as long as they are unique) and will be used as display names (they support utf-8). It makes sense to keep them short as they can be  used for filtering and/or ordering:
    
    ```bash
    bbbmon meetings -e Föö
    ```
    
    
    
    bbbmon supports command abbreviations – these commands produce the same result:
    
    ```bash
    bbbmon meetings
    bbbmon meeting
    bbbmon mee
    bbbmon m
    ```
    
    This works as long as there is no other command starting with the same letters.