Primary version

Service Reference Card

The Accounting service is made up of three containers

Daemons running

APEL REST Interface

  • httpd

  • crond

  • atd

APEL Server

  • apeldbloader-cloud

  • crond

Init commands (services started on container creation)

APEL REST Interface

  • service httpd start

  • service crond start

  • service atd start

APEL Server

  • service apeldbloader-cloud start

  • service crond start

Configuration file locations

APEL REST Interface

  • /etc/httpd/conf.d/apel_rest_api.conf - forces SSL.

  • /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf - configures SSL.

APEL Server

  • /etc/apel/cloudloader.cfg - configuration for the loader.

  • /etc/apel/cloudsummariser.cfg - configuration for the summariser.

Logfile locations

APEL REST Interface

  • /var/log/httpd/error_log - the log file for the Django interface. All such messages get captured by the Apache server and are treated as errors

APEL Server

  • /var/log/cloud/loader.log - log file for the loader.

  • /var/log/cloud/summariser.log - log file for the summariser.

Open ports

  • 80 - all traffic to this port is forwarded to port 443 by the Apache server.

  • 443 - the Apache server forwards (HTTPS) traffic to the APEL server, which returns a Django view for recognised URL patterns.

  • 3306 - used by the APEL server service and the MySQL service to communicate with each other.

Possible unit test of the service

  • Continuous integration tests conducted during development via TravisCI.

  • For end to end testing, data could be POSTED to the endpoint, summarised and then retrieved from the GET endpoint.

Where is service state held (and can it be rebuilt)

  • Service is deployed in a docker container, do not rebuild released docker containers without incrementing package information in version, i.e 1.1.0-1 => 1.1.0-2

Cron jobs

APEL REST Interface

  • /etc/cron.d/cloudsummariser - runs the summariser.

APEL Server

  • /etc/cron.d/IGTF-bundle-update - updates the IGTF bundle on the first day of the month.

  • /etc/cron.d/fetch-crl - updates the Certificate Revocation Lists every 6 hours

Security information

The APEL REST Interface container is the only container with a public endpoint, as such it deals with authentication & authorization.

Access control Mechanism description (authentication & authorization)

  • X.509 certificates for POST requests

  • IAM tokens for GET requests

How to block/ban a user

  • To ban users accessing summaries, remove them from ALLOWED_FOR_GET in /var/www/html/yaml/apel_rest_interface.env.

  • To ban users sending job records, perhaps because a provider in the Indigo provider list is negatively effecting the quality of the service for users by bulk reppublishing, add their HostDN to BANNED_FROM_POST in /var/www/html/yaml/apel_rest_interface.env.

  • Additional users, not on the providers list, can also be granted POST rights, by adding their HostDN to ALLOWED_TO_POST in /var/www/html/yaml/apel_rest_interface.env.

  • Any changes to /var/www/html/yaml/apel_rest_interface.env require a container restart to take effect.

Network Usage

  • Managed by the Kubernetes cluster.

Firewall configuration

  • Managed by the Kubernetes cluster.

Security recommendations

  • Do not use a self signed certifcate in production.

PreviousDeployment and Administration guideNextUser guide

Last updated