OK, my luck.  I been playing with this for three hours, read, typed, read, typed, no go.  I put unmenu on my flash drive, run it, opens the file, type ./uu tells me No such file or directory.  Type boot/unmenu/uu, No such file or directory.  OK, what's up?   BTW, I'm unRaid 5.0.2.

 

I'm looking at my flash directory…I have two folders UNmenu and Umenu,  should I be using /boot/umenu/uu maybe?

yes unmenu is manually started be invoking at CL /boot/unmenu/uu you can also add to go script so that as soon as your unraid is restart is will start itself. not sure what the umenu on your flash drive is about, but if its not needed remove it.

So far I've got the Tower unRaid Server to come up, but no links or anything works, if I try a link, just says Safari can't connect to that page. I'm stuck in the mud, I don't know where to go from here.  What in the heck is a "go" menu or script???

ok, are you using a mac or pc? if using a Mac computer - you can use terminal to telnet into your unraid box - ->finder -->terminal --> once terminal is open type "telnet ip address of server then enter, you will be prompted with the default tower login - just type root and enter. then you can invoke the unmenu, but you need to install it first - do a quick search for installing unmenu and that has all the info you need to get everything sorted

 

if you are using a windows pc - you need to download some telnet software - putty is free and easy - put in ip address and select telnet-port23 and go - will show a similar tower login: root then enter - again search for install unmenu and the rest of the info will be at your finger tips to sort it out...

/as luck would have it, I have both in my little man cave.  The unMenu works OK under Windows 7 computer, but ain't with a tinker's dam on my Mac.  But after some scrutiny on Windows, unmenu just seems to be a statisticians dream, but that's about it.  Seems I can maintain my media server just fine with the stock interface.  Thanks for the help.  Time to move on...

/as luck would have it, I have both in my little man cave.  The unMenu works OK under Windows 7 computer, but ain't with a tinker's dam on my Mac.  But after some scrutiny on Windows, unmenu just seems to be a statisticians dream, but that's about it.  Seems I can maintain my media server just fine with the stock interface.  Thanks for the help.  Time to move on...

First.  On a MAC you must either add an entry to your "hosts" file, or add a line in the /boot/unmenu/unmenu_local.conf file to tell it to use the IP address instead of your server name for unMENU links.  Otherwise, only the first page will work, and you must address that page by IP address.

 

Second, unMENU will never be able to perform most administrative tasks involved in adding disks or configuring the unRAID array.  It is NOT a replacement for the stock unRAID interface.  You can use it to stop the array, and on occasion when emhttp crashes, it is the ONLY easy way to cleanly stop the array) It does provide a lot of additional reporting. It does ease adding some user-add-ons.  It existed WAY before the plugin system in unRAID 5.0.  (In fact, it was the proof that extension management was needed in unRAID)  Most of what you are seeing as a plugin in the 5.0 version of unRAID had its beginnings in unMENU, since unMENU is so easy to extend.  (In fact, a "plugin" in 5.0 is basically an "xml" version of the "unmenu-package.conf" file.)

 

Third, unMENU is specifically designed as an extensible way to explore improvements to the stock unRAID interface.

See here for some history:  http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2110.0

My inital post on this topic here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2110.msg17381#msg17381

The initial posts on unMENU are here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2595.0

unMENU proved the desire/need to have smartctl as a built-in command to monitor disk health.

 

The split of emhttp into an API vs. presentation I described is exactly what the 5.0 release involved.  It was (and is) a lot of effort for Tom @ Lime-Tech.

 

Good luck with your server... You might want to leave unMENU installed.  It might just be useful.

 

What would this line look like?  "or add a line in the /boot/unmenu/unmenu_local.conf file to tell it to use the IP address instead of your server name for unMENU links" and how would I add it?  Would it mess with Windows then, which seems to work OK now?

What would this line look like?  "or add a line in the /boot/unmenu/unmenu_local.conf file to tell it to use the IP address instead of your server name for unMENU links" and how would I add it?  Would it mess with Windows then, which seems to work OK now?

Instructions here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2595.msg43448#msg43448

 

in a mixed environment (windows and MAC),  use MyHost=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX = your IP address of your server.

 

Do it from your windows PC.  Yu can use windows explorer to copy the file from

\\tower\flash\unmenu\unmenu.conf

to

\\tower\flash\unmenu_local.conf

 

Then you can use the View/Edit Config file feature in unMENU to edit unmenu_local.conf as described, then use the buttons on unMENU's  User-Scripts page to restart unMENU.

 

It will not affect windows  (all the links in unMENU will then be the IP addresse you added in unmenu_local.conf, but they work perfectly fine on Windows )

 

Joe L.

Joe L., Thanks for the help, I'm going to mess with this, this afternoon, but I did have one more question, when in the heck do you get any sleep?  You're always here!