Category:Cumulus MX

Documentation for MX

Cross reference to article on Moving from Cumulus 1 to MX (includes general issues regarding running on Windows)

Whether you have been using Cumulus 1, or are new to Cumulus, you may be tempted to install MX on a PC, or other device, running Windows Operating System; the article linked in the heading will help you.

You may be reading this article on MX as a Cumulus 1 user considering moving to MX, if so then it explains all issues when moving from Cumulus 1 to MX, including what functionality you will gain and what you will lose by moving to MX. The article will help you to decide whether to stick with Cumulus 1's stable release as many MX releases have bugs as the developer tries revising the code, to simplify it, as well as to introduce new features.

As a new Cumulus user, using MX on Windows (but with no experience of Cumulus 1), the separate article linked from the heading to this section will still interest you as it is a definitive guide to installing Cumulus MX on Windows.

Cross reference to article on Setting up Raspberry Pi using a pre-built Image for Cumulus

Whether you have been using Cumulus 1, or are new to Cumulus, you may be tempted to install MX on a Raspberry Pi, operating in headless mode (instead of connecting a screen and keyboard to it, you do all access to the Pi from another computer on same network). The developer has made life easy for you by combining the Raspberry Pi Lite Operating System with a pre-installation copy of MX.

Find out more about using this pre-built Raspberry Pi image file to create a basic headless server in the article linked in the heading.

It is worth reading the article linked below as well.

Cross reference to article on Setting up Raspberry Pi for Cumulus

Whether you have been using Cumulus 1, or are new to Cumulus, you may be tempted to install MX on a Raspberry Pi. A Raspberry Pi (and similar devices from other manufacturers) is much simpler than a normal computer, but it can still run various operating systems that allow you to use it perhaps for both running MX and a web server. Find out more in the article linked in the heading.

Cross reference to article on Updating MX to new version

Whether you have not updated for a long time, or simply wonder whether you are updating the easiest way, follow the link in the heading for this section, to an article that focusses on all to do with updating from one MX version to another. This includes the recommended approach (letting zip overwrite previous installation), and other approaches. It also expands on issues relating to web templates, database tables, and other optional features in MX.

Critically, this linked article contains advice both for those updating each time there is a new release available and how to upgrade from an old version in a series of steps, skipping some in-between versions. So read the article linked in the section heading whether you are still using Steve Loft's beta version of MX or an old Mark Crossley release.

Cross reference to Cumulus MX FAQ

A new FAQ for MX has been started at another page. As I add the link here, the Cumulus MX FAQ is in a mess, but hopefully someone will have time to sort it out.

Meanwhile most MX specific questions are now covered by the updating of text on this "Cumulus MX" page.

Cross reference to MX Issues

The Cumulus MX Known Issues article was based on Steve Loft's forum post so based on an early beta version of MX, and there has been minimal attempt to update the contents as MX has been developed further and come out of the original beta. Anyone willing to check the linked article and do a further update?

Cross-reference to What to do when I have a problem with MX

The text that was here has been moved to a separate article, that makes it more accessible, please see What to do when I have a problem with MX article

Although you may end up asking for advice on the Cumulus Support Forum, read the article linked in the heading first, as it will help you to provide the information that is needed for others to quickly help you.

Cross reference to Administrative Interface

This requires a whole topic to itself, and indeed it has an article to itself, reached from link in heading for this section.

Cross reference to the application programming interface (api) used by MX

The MX application programming local interface has been fully documented by the developer in this article.

There is also some older information here which explains how the api is used in the administrative interface.