==================== Administration Guide ==================== :Version: $Revision$ .. contents:: What does Roundup install? ========================== There's two "installations" that we talk about when using Roundup: 1. The installation of the software and its support files. This uses the standard Python mechanism called "distutils" and thus Roundup's core code, executable scripts and support data files are installed in Python's directories. On Windows, this is typically: Scripts ``\scripts\...`` Core code ``\lib\site-packages\roundup\...`` Support files ``\share\roundup\...`` and on Unix-like systems (eg. Linux): Scripts ``/bin/...`` Core code ``/lib-/site-packages/roundup/...`` Support files ``/share/roundup/...`` 2. The installation of a specific tracker. When invoking the roundup-admin "inst" (and "init") commands, you're creating a new Roundup tracker. This installs configuration files, HTML templates, detector code and a new database. You have complete control over where this stuff goes through both choosing your "tracker home" and the ``main`` -> ``database`` variable in the tracker's config.ini. Configuring Roundup's Logging of Messages For Sysadmins ======================================================= You may configure where Roundup logs messages in your tracker's config.ini file. Roundup will use the standard Python (2.3+) logging implementation when available. If not, then a very basic logging implementation will be used (see BasicLogging in the roundup.rlog module for details). Configuration for standard "logging" module: - tracker configuration file specifies the location of a logging configration file as ``logging`` -> ``config`` - ``roundup-server`` specifies the location of a logging configuration file on the command line Configuration for "BasicLogging" implementation: - tracker configuration file specifies the location of a log file ``logging`` -> ``filename`` - tracker configuration file specifies the level to log to as ``logging`` -> ``level`` - ``roundup-server`` specifies the location of a log file on the command line - ``roundup-server`` specifies the level to log to on the command line (``roundup-mailgw`` always logs to the tracker's log file) In both cases, if no logfile is specified then logging will simply be sent to sys.stderr with only logging of ERROR messages. Configuring roundup-server ========================== The basic configuration file layout is as follows (take from the ``roundup-server.ini.example`` file in the "doc" directory):: [main] port = 8080 ;hostname = ;user = ;group = ;log_ip = yes ;pidfile = ;logfile = [trackers] ; Add one of these per tracker being served name = /path/to/tracker/name Values ";commented out" are optional. The meaning of the various options are as follows: **port** Defines the local TCP port to listen for clients on. **hostname** Defines the local hostname to listen for clients on. Only required if "localhost" is not sufficient. **user** and **group** Defines the Unix user and group to run the server as. Only work if the server is started as root. **log_ip** If ``yes`` then we log IP addresses against accesses. If ``no`` then we log the hostname of the client. The latter can be much slower. **pidfile** If specified, the server will fork at startup and write its new PID to the file. **logfile** Any unhandled exception messages or other output from Roundup will be written to this file. It must be specified if **pidfile** is specified. If per-tracker logging is specified, then very little will be written to this file. **trackers** section Each line denotes a mapping from a URL component to a tracker home. Make sure the name part doesn't include any url-unsafe characters like spaces. Stick to alphanumeric characters and you'll be ok. Users and Security ================== Roundup holds its own user database which primarily contains a username, password and email address for the user. Roundup *must* have its own user listing, in order to maintain internal consistency of its data. It is a relatively simple exercise to update this listing on a regular basis, or on demand, so that it matches an external listing (eg. unix passwd file, LDAP, etc.) Roundup identifies users in a number of ways: 1. Through the web, users may be identified by either HTTP Basic Authentication or cookie authentication. If you are running the web server (roundup-server) through another HTTP server (eg. apache or IIS) then that server may require HTTP Basic Authentication, and it will pass the ``REMOTE_USER`` variable through to Roundup. If this variable is not present, then Roundup defaults to using its own cookie-based login mechanism. 2. In email messages handled by roundup-mailgw, users are identified by the From address in the message. In both cases, Roundup's behaviour when dealing with unknown users is controlled by Permissions defined in the "SECURITY SETTINGS" section of the tracker's ``schema.py`` module: Web Registration If granted to the Anonymous Role, then anonymous users will be able to register through the web. Email Registration If granted to the Anonymous Role, then email messages from unknown users will result in those users being registered with the tracker. More information about how to customise your tracker's security settings may be found in the `customisation documentation`_. Tasks ===== Maintenance of Roundup can involve one of the following: 1. `tracker backup`_ 2. `software upgrade`_ 3. `migrating backends`_ 4. `moving a tracker`_ 5. `migrating from other software`_ 6. `adding a user from the command-line`_ Tracker Backup -------------- Stop the web and email frontends and to copy the contents of the tracker home directory to some other place using standard backup tools. Software Upgrade ---------------- Always make a backup of your tracker before upgrading software. Steps you may take: 1. Ensure that the unit tests run on your system:: python run_tests.py 2. If you're using an RDBMS backend, make a backup of its contents now. 3. Make a backup of the tracker home itself. 4. Stop the tracker web and email frontends. 5. Follow the steps in the `upgrading documentation`_ for the new version of the software in the copied. 6. You may test each of the admin tool, web interface and mail gateway using the new version of the software. To do this, invoke the scripts directly in the source directory with:: PYTHONPATH=. python roundup/scripts/roundup_server.py PYTHONPATH=. python roundup/scripts/roundup_admin.py PYTHONPATH=. python roundup/scripts/roundup_mailgw.py Note that on Windows, this would read:: C:\sources\roundup-0.7.4> SET PYTHONPATH=. C:\sources\roundup-0.7.4> python roundup/scripts/roundup_server.py 7. Once you're comfortable that the upgrade will work using that copy, you should install the new version of the software:: python setup.py install 8. Restart your tracker web and email frontends. If something bad happens, you may reinstate your backup of the tracker and reinstall the older version of the sofware using the same install command:: python setup.py install Migrating Backends ------------------ 1. stop the existing tracker web and email frontends (preventing changes) 2. use the roundup-admin tool "export" command to export the contents of your tracker to disk 3. copy the tracker home to a new directory 4. delete the "db" directory from the new directory 5. enter the new backend name in the tracker home ``db/backend_name`` file 6. use the roundup-admin "import" command to import the previous export with the new tracker home 7. test each of the admin tool, web interface and mail gateway using the new backend 8. move the old tracker home out of the way (rename to "tracker.old") and move the new tracker home into its place 9. restart web and email frontends Moving a Tracker ---------------- If you're moving the tracker to a similar machine, you should: 1. install Roundup on the new machine and test that it works there, 2. stop the existing tracker web and email frontends (preventing changes), 3. copy the tracker home directory over to the new machine, and 4. start the tracker web and email frontends on the new machine. Most of the backends are actually portable across platforms (ie. from Unix to Windows to Mac). If this isn't the case (ie. the tracker doesn't work when moved using the above steps) then you'll need to: 1. install Roundup on the new machine and test that it works there, 2. stop the existing tracker web and email frontends (preventing changes), 3. use the roundup-admin tool "export" command to export the contents of the existing tracker, 4. copy the export to the new machine, 5. use the roundup-admin "import" command to import the tracker on the new machine, and 6. start the tracker web and email frontends on the new machine. Migrating From Other Software ----------------------------- You have a couple of choices. You can either use a CSV import into Roundup, or you can write a simple Python script which uses the Roundup API directly. The latter is almost always simpler -- see the "scripts" directory in the Roundup source for some example uses of the API. "roundup-admin import" will import data into your tracker from a directory containing files with the following format: - one colon-separated-values file per Class with columns for each property, named .csv - one colon-separated-values file per Class with journal information, named -journals.csv (this is required, even if it's empty) - if the Class is a FileClass, you may have the "content" property stored in separate files from the csv files. This goes in a directory structure:: -files// where ```` is the item's ```` combination. The ```` value is ``int( / 1000)``. Adding A User From The Command-Line ----------------------------------- The ``roundup-admin`` program can create any data you wish to in the database. To create a new user, use:: roundup-admin create user To figure out what good values might be for some of the fields (eg. Roles) you can just display another user:: roundup-admin list user (or if you know their username, and it happens to be "richard"):: roundup-admin find username=richard then using the user id you get from one of the above commands, you may display the user's details:: roundup-admin display Running the Servers =================== Unix ---- On Unix systems, use the scripts/server-ctl script to control the roundup-server server. Copy it somewhere and edit the variables at the top to reflect your specific installation. Windows ------- On Windows, the roundup-server program runs as a Windows Service, and therefore may be controlled through the Services control panel. The roundup-server program may also control the service directly: **install the service** ``roundup-server -c install`` **start the service** ``roundup-server -c start`` **stop the service** ``roundup-server -c stop`` To bring up the services panel: Windows 2000 and later Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services Windows NT4 Start/Control Panel/Services Running the Mail Gateway Script ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The mail gateway script should be scheduled to run regularly on your Windows server. Normally this will result in a window popping up. The solution to this is to: 1. Create a new local account on the Roundup server 2. Set the scheduled task to run in the context of this user instead of your normal login ------------------- Back to `Table of Contents`_ .. _`Table of Contents`: index.html .. _`customisation documentation`: customizing.html .. _`upgrading documentation`: upgrading.html