BlueChi’s Architecture

The image below depicts a generic overview of the BlueChi architecture:

Any application that wants to integrate with BlueChi does so via it’s public D-Bus API on the local system bus. These custom applications can be written in a variety of languages.

One example of such an application shown in the diagram above is a state manager for the overall system. It can use BlueChi’s API to perform actions, receive their the outcome and/or monitor the state of services as well as the connection state of managed nodes.

For administrators, bluechictl is the preferred interface sparing administrators from interacting with BlueChi via D-Bus directly.