FIWARE Policy Manager GE: Cloto

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Introduction

This is the code repository for FIWARE Policy Manager GE - Cloto, a server that provides an API-REST to create rules associated to servers, subscribe servers to Context Broker to get information about resources consumption of that servers and launch actions described in rules when conditions are given.

This project is part of FIWARE. Check also the FIWARE Catalogue entry for Policy Manager

Any feedback on this documentation is highly welcome, including bugs, typos or things you think should be included but aren’t. You can use github issues to provide feedback.

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GEi overall description

Bosun GEri is the reference implementation of Policy Manager GE.

Bosun GEri offers decision-making ability, independently of the type of resource (physical/virtual resources, network, service, etc.) being able to solve complex problems within the Cloud field by reasoning about the knowledge base, represented by facts and rules. Bosun GEri provides the basic management of cloud resources based on rules, as well as management of the corresponding resources within FIWARE Cloud instances based on infrastructure physical monitoring, resources and services security monitoring or whatever that could be defined by facts, actions and rules.

The baseline for the Bosun GEri is PyCLIPS, which is a module to interact with CLIPS expert system implemented in python language. The reason to take PyCLIPS is to extend the OpenStack ecosystem with an expert system, written in the same language as the rest of the OpenStack services. Besides, It provides notification service to your own HTTP server where you can define your own actions based on the notifications launched by Policy Manager. Last but not least, Bosun is integrated with the Monitoring GEri in order to recover the information of the (virtual) system and calculate any possible change on it based on the knowledge database defined for it.

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Components

Fiware-Cloto
Fiware-cloto is part of FIWARE Policy Manager. It provides an API-REST to create rules associated to servers, subscribe servers to Context Broker to get information about resources consumption of that servers and launch actions described in rules when conditions are given.
Fiware-Facts
Server to process the incoming facts from the Orion Context Broker and publish the result into a RabbitMQ queue to be analysed by Fiware-Cloto. The facts are the result of the server resources consumption.

For more information, please refer to the documentation.

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Build and Install

Requirements

  • Operating systems: CentOS (RedHat) and Ubuntu (Debian), being CentOS 6.3 the reference operating system.

To install this module you have to install some components:

This module also needs the installation of these other components:

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Installation

Once you have all prerequisites installed, you must create a DB named cloto in your MySQL server. Ensure your mysql path is in your path. If not, you can add executing (change /usr/local/ with your mysql folder):

$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin

In addition, be sure you have installed mysql-devel package for development of MySQL applications. You should be able to install it from yum or apt-get package managers.

Examples:

centos$ sudo yum install mysql-devel
ubuntu$ sudo apt-get install mysql-devel

After all you must install fiware-cloto from pypi repository executing:

$ sudo pip install fiware-cloto

After finishing you must configure cloto configuration and ensure your database is created with mysql.

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Configuration file - Cloto

The configuration used by the fiware-cloto component is read from the configuration file. This file is located here:

/etc/fiware.d/fiware-cloto.cfg

MYSQL cloto configuration must be filled before starting fiware-facts component, user and password are empty by default. You can copy the default configuration file to the folder defined for your OS, and complete data about cloto MYSQL configuration (user and password) and all openstack configuration.

In addition, user could have a copy of this file in other location and pass its location to the server in running execution defining an environment variable called CLOTO_SETTINGS_FILE.

Options that user could define:

[openstack]
# OPENSTACK information about KEYSTONE to validate tokens received
OPENSTACK_URL: http://cloud.lab.fi-ware.org:4731/v2.0
ADM_USER:
ADM_PASS:
ADM_TENANT_ID:
ADM_TENANT_NAME:
USER_DOMAIN_NAME: Default
AUTH_API: v2.0

[policy_manager]
SETTINGS_TYPE: production
DEFAULT_WINDOW_SIZE: 5
MAX_WINDOW_SIZE: 10
LOGGING_PATH: /var/log/fiware-cloto

[context_broker]
CONTEXT_BROKER_URL: http://130.206.81.44:1026/NGSI10
# Public IP of fiware-facts module
NOTIFICATION_URL: http://127.0.0.1:5000/v1.0
NOTIFICATION_TYPE: ONTIMEINTERVAL
NOTIFICATION_TIME: PT5S

[rabbitmq]
# URL Where RabbitMQ is listening (no port needed, it uses default port)
RABBITMQ_URL: localhost

[mysql]
DB_CHARSET: utf8
DB_HOST: localhost
DB_NAME: cloto
DB_USER:
DB_PASSWD:

[django]
DEBUG: False
DATABASE_ENGINE: django.db.backends.mysql
ALLOWED_HOSTS: ['127.0.0.1', 'localhost']
### Must be a unique generated value. keep that key safe.
SECRET_KEY: TestingKey+faeogfjksrjgpjaspigjiopsjgvopjsopgvj

[logging]
level: INFO

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Running

To run fiware-cloto, just execute:

$ gunicorn fiware_cloto.cloto.wsgi -b $IP

To stop fiware-cloto, you can stop gunicorn server, or kill it

NOTE: if you want to see gunicorn log if something is going wrong, you could execute the command before adding --log-file=- at the end of the command. This option will show the logs in your prompt.

Finally, ensure that you create a folder for logs /var/log/fiware-cloto/ (by default), with the right permissions to write in that folder.

mkdir -m /var/log/fiware-cloto

Running with supervisor

Optionally you can add a new layer to manage gunicorn proccess with a supervisor. Just install supervisor on your system:

sudo apt-get install supervisor

Copy the file utils/cloto_start to /etc/fiware.d. Make this script executable:

sudo chmod a+x /etc/fiware.d/cloto_start

Copy the file utils/fiware-cloto.conf to /etc/supervisor/conf.d.

Start fiware-cloto using supervisor:

sudo supervisorctl reread
sudo supervisorctl update
sudo supervisorctl start fiware-cloto

To stop fiware-cloto just execute:

sudo supervisorctl stop fiware-cloto

NOTE: Supervisor provides an “event listener” to subscribe to “event notifications”. The purpose of the event notification/subscription system is to provide a mechanism for arbitrary code to be run (e.g. send an email, make an HTTP request, etc) when some condition is met. That condition usually has to do with subprocess state. For instance, you may want to notify someone via email when a process crashes and is restarted by Supervisor. For more information check also the Supervisor Documentation

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API Overview

To create a new rule for a server, user should send the rule as body of a POST request to the cloto server, with the condition and action that should be performed.

For example, this operation allows to create a specific rule associate to a server:

curl -v -H 'X-Auth-Token: 86e096cd4de5490296fd647e21b7f0b4' -X POST
http://130.206.81.71:8000/v1.0/6571e3422ad84f7d828ce2f30373b3d4/servers
/32c23ac4-230d-42b6-81f2-db9bd7e5b790/rules/
-d '{"action": {"actionName": "notify-scale", "operation": "scaleUp"},
"name": "ScaleUpRule", "condition": { "cpu": { "value": 98, "operand": "greater" },
"mem": { "value": 95, "operand": "greater equal"}}}'

The result of this operation is a JSON with the Id of the server affected and the ruleId of the created rule:

{
    "serverId": "32c23ac4-230d-42b6-81f2-db9bd7e5b790",
    "ruleId": "68edb416-bfc6-11e3-a8b9-fa163e202949"
}

Then user could perform a subscription to that rule with a new operation.

Please have a look at the API Reference Documentation section below and at the user and programmer guide for more description of the possibilities and operations.

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Testing

Unit tests

Download source code from github

$ git clone https://github.com/telefonicaid/fiware-cloto.git

To execute the unit tests, you must set the environment variable pointing to the settings_test file. Then you can use coverage to execute the tests and obtain the percentage of lines coveved by the tests. You must execute the tests from project folder fiware-cloto. Once you were inside the right location, execute the required commands:

$ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=fiware_cloto.cloto_settings.settings_tests
$ export CLOTO_SETTINGS_FILE=$(pwd)/fiware_cloto/cloto_settings/fiware-cloto.cfg
$ python fiware_cloto/manage.py test

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End-to-end tests

In order to check that fiware-cloto is up and running, you can execute a GET request similar to:

curl -v -H 'X-Auth-Token: $AUTH_TOKEN' http://$HOST:8000/v1.0/$TENANT_ID/

Where:

  • $AUTH_TOKEN: is a valid token owned by the user. You can request this token from keystone.
  • $HOST: is the url/IP of the machine where fiware facts is installed, for example: (policymanager-host.org, 127.0.0.1, etc)
  • $TENANT_ID: is a tenantId of the user, for example: 6571e3422ad84f7d828ce2f30373b3d4

the response should be similar to:

{
    "owner": "Telefonica I+D",
    "doc": "https://forge.fi-ware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/
                                                Policy_Manager_Open_RESTful_API_Specification",
    "runningfrom": "15/08/14 10:12:45",
    "version": "1.7.0",
    "windowsize": 2
}

Please refer to the Installation and administration guide for details.

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Acceptance tests

Requirements

Environment preparation:

  • Create a virtual environment somewhere, e.g. in ENV (virtualenv ENV)
  • Activate the virtual environment (source ENV/bin/activate)
  • Change to the test/acceptance folder of the project
  • Install the requirements for the acceptance tests in the virtual environment (pip install -r requirements.txt –allow-all-external).
  • Configure file in fiware-cloto/tests/acceptance_tests/commons/configuration.py adding the keystone url, and a valid, user, password and tenant ID.

Tests execution

Change to the fiware-cloto/tests/acceptance_tests folder of the project if not already on it and execute:

$ lettuce_tools

In the following document you will find the steps to execute automated tests for the Policy Manager GE:

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Support

Ask your thorough programming questions using stackoverflow and your general questions on FIWARE Q&A. In both cases please use the tag fiware-bosun.

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License

(c) 2013-2014 Telefónica I+D, Apache License 2.0