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Tue Dec 7 18:24:42 2021 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Linux | 3.1.4 | Re: Unclear how to use the command line tool /usr/bin/elog | But this is real progress! Now elog successfully connected, and all your data was transmitted, but elogd refused your content.
A possible explanation is that one required attribute of this logbook was not provided in your elog command, or that one value of an attribute does not match any allowed value for that attribute.
Here we can only help if you post the config of your logbook.
Cheers, Andreas
PS: you did not provide the -s option?!? Just in case you lack the knowledge: providing a port number 443 does not imply the use of the SSL protocoll.
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Not really. The full URL in the browser is https://elog-1.matrix.com/LogBook. That's why I am trying with "-h elog-1.matrix.com -l LogBook"
I have just tried with -p, here is the full output:
[root@elog-1 ~]# /usr/bin/elog -h elog-1.matrix.com -p 443 -v -x -l LogBook -u jcaballero xxxx -a Team='Team Name' -a Category='Category Name' -a 'Affected service'='Affected Service' -a Criticality=Normal -a 'Oncall Documentation'='No modifications required' -a Subject='This is a test, ignore me' 'This is a test, ignore me'
Successfully connected to host elog-1.matrix.com, port 443
Request sent to host:
POST /Tier1/ HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Host: elog1.matrix.com:443
User-Agent: ELOG
Content-Length: 1610
Content sent to host:
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cmd"
Submit
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="unm"
jcaballero
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upwd"
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="exp"
LogBook
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="suppress"
1
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="encoding"
ELCode
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Team"
Team Name
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Category"
Category Name
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Affected_service"
Affected Service
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Criticality"
Normal
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Oncall_Documentation"
No modifications required
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Subject"
This is a test, ignore me
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Text"
This is a test, ignore me
---------------------------462A01443E24BC6541C5BB72
Response received:
Error transmitting message
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
If you use HTTPS, you have to connect to port 443 of your server, using the "-p" option.
Furthermore, you run under an Apache server, right? How do you do the redirecting to elogd? I guess you specified a subdir in the URL named /LogBook to redirect to elogd. The you use another part of the URL to select the logbook, which again might be "LogBook". Is that correct? So your full URL in the browser would be https://elog-1.matrix.com/LogBook/LogBook. If that's the case, you have to tell the elog tool that you use a subdir in the URL using the "-d" option.
Stefan
Jose Caballero wrote: |
This is what I get with -s:
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Successfully connected to host elog-1.matrix.com, port 80
elogd server does not run SSL protocol
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And the entry has not been created.
Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
If you need HTTPS then you must specify the "-s" option.
You could have looked into the help of the elog command:
> elog -h
elogd 3.1.4 built Jun 14 2021, 18:01:54 revision 611489b
usage: elog
elog -h <hostname> [-p port] [-d subdir]
Location where elogd is running
-l logbook/experiment Name of logbook or experiment
-s Use SSL for communication
[-v] For verbose output
[-u username password] User name and password
[-f <attachment>] (up to 50 attachments)
-a <attribute>=<value> (up to 50 attributes)
[-r <id>] Reply to existing message
[-q] Quote original text on reply
[-e <id>] Edit existing message
[-w <id>|last] Download existing message (last message)
[-x] Suppress email notification
[-n 0|1|2] Encoding: 0:ELcode,1:plain,2:HTML
-m <textfile>] | <text>
Arguments with blanks must be enclosed in quotes
The elog message can either be submitted on the command line, piped in like
"cat text | elog -h ... -l ... -a ..." or in a file with the -m flag.
Multiple attributes and attachments can be supplied
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Hi Stefan,
Here is the, I believe, relevant part of the output:
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Response received:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:26:07 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.6 (Scientific Linux) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/5.4.16
Content-Length: 204
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /LogBook/ was not found on this server.</p>
</body></html>
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Note that the URL https://elog-1.matrix.com/LogBook/ exists and works. That's how we create all our log entries via web browser.
Thanks,
Jose
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
Please issue the elog command with an added "-v" flag and post the output here.
Stefan
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Hello,
I am trying first time to use the tool /usr/bin/elog. From the documentation is not clear to if everything must be in quotes or not, if every attribute requires -a.
Here is how my attempt looks like (changing actual data by fake one):
/usr/bin/elog -h elog-1.matrix.com -l LogBook -u jcaballero mypassword -a Team='Team Name Here' Category='Category Here' -a 'Affected service'='Name of affected service here' -a Criticality=Normal -a 'Oncall Documentation'='No modifications required' -a Subject='here is the subject line' 'here is the text'
I just get "Error transmitting message".
Attributes Team and Category are of checkbox type. Attributes Criticality and Oncall Documentation are of radio type.
What is wrong with my command attempt?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Cheers,
Jose
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Fri Dec 10 21:41:05 2021 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Linux | 3.1.4 | Re: Unclear how to use the command line tool /usr/bin/elog | It is the default. If you install ELOG on your PC and run it, then every access will be directly to the ELOG web service. If you want to have Apache inbetween, it is some extra effort.
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Nope. How? Is it documented?
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
Have you tried to connect directly to elogd and not going through Apache?
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Thanks for the comments. I will pass them to the admins.
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Sun Dec 12 08:12:57 2021 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Windows | latest | Re: Dump screenshot to new elog entry | I am no Windows expert. An option is to write your own application and use the "elog" command to post the output of the application to your ELOG.
There is as well a python library to access ELOG via http: https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/py_elog
Anthony J Krishock wrote: |
Hello,
I am interested in finding a preferrably single-click way to capture a screenshot and posting it automatically to a new elog entry . I would be doing this from Windows. Is this possible?
Thanks
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Thu Dec 16 18:24:41 2021 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Linux | 3.1.4 | Re: Unclear how to use the command line tool /usr/bin/elog | Now you've totally lost me.
elogd is a web service. You connect to it with a web browser. You don't pass arguments at startup of the service that refers to specific atrributes. I have no idea what you intend to do, you need to explain a lot more.
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Hi Andreas,
I realize from your response that my question was not clear. I was not asking how to get it. Note that I am just a regular user, I am not the administrator of the service.
My question was about how to use it. From the man page, or from the explanation in the Administration Guide, it is not clear to me how to pass the same arguments I have been trying for /usr/bin/elog. For example, how to pass the list of attributes. I don't see a "-a" option for elogd.
Thanks.
Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
It is the default. If you install ELOG on your PC and run it, then every access will be directly to the ELOG web service. If you want to have Apache inbetween, it is some extra effort.
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Nope. How? Is it documented?
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
Have you tried to connect directly to elogd and not going through Apache?
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Thanks for the comments. I will pass them to the admins.
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Fri Apr 22 12:55:21 2022 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Windows | 3.1.4-a04faf9f | Re: Vulnerability? |
> it would be good if the current state was listed in https://elog.psi.ch/elogs/Vulnerabilities/
> It seems there's now updated builds for at least windows, and the debian package still outdated?
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> Personally, I don't think removing download links and pulling packages should be more than a temporary measure.
> Treating people fairly IMHO means they should be able to reach a safe version by the same means that brought and left them exposed.
>
> A clear central source would be best, one that has
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> - package autobuilds
> - source
> - cve list
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> If I understand correctly, currently only the source is up to date?
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> (I found py_elog on Github, so it could be an easy option to mirror ELOG there and let some free service handle the autobuilds.
> I don't know how well one can flag vulnerabilities there, but likely it's possible, and ideally more people would help there.)
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> p.s.: My hat is off to the sysadmin who checked carefully, I wanted to introduce ELOG in a windows-centric place and I can't swear I would have checked this (official) download as well.
Very good ideas! Go ahead and implement them! We very much appreciate your contribution. |
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Sat Jul 2 14:39:41 2022 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Windows | 3.1.2 | Re: Slow performance | We have 68 logbooks and currently 60 GB data total. We run it as well on a VM, in our case with 8GB RAM.
The speed of ELOG is mostly given by the filesystem: when we had AFS it was very slow. With NFS it was better. But we now use a local disk on the VM: that is much better.
If you want to have the best performance (upload of large files can still slow down all users) then I would recomment local SSD for the file system of elogd.
You might talk to your system administrator: they can likely provide a local SSD on the VM server host.
Alan Grant wrote: |
We're up to 30 logbooks, 3.2GB data total and Elog damen has now become slow. Performance stats show 100%CPU on startup then reduces. Searches and general UI activity is slow. It runs on a VM with 4GB memory allocated. Up to 15 concurrent users.
Trimming and archiving some data files may help but I gather overall this is underpowered hardware in this instance so what is recommended system requirements for a config like this?
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Fri Jan 20 10:25:23 2023 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Request | All | - | Re: Wikipedia Article deleted | It looks to me like only an author of an article can contradict a deletion. I did not find a single method to even comment on the deletion.
I am not an Wikipedia expert, can anyone suggest on how to push for the article to be restored? Or do we just write it again, until people stop deleting it?
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
I agree. I ahead ;-) I think it is not a good idea if the ELOG author pushes on that, but better someone else.
Best,
Stefan
Sebastian Schenk wrote: |
Hello,
I noticed the wikipedia article of the ELOG got deleted in November 2021.
With the reason: "Poorly sourced article, and I was not able to find good sources myself."
I could access the old article through web.archive.org, but for the project it would be good, if the article got revived.
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Fri Jan 27 22:25:18 2023 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Request | All | - | Re: Wikipedia Article deleted | It appears to me that this is a really stupid problem: the article provides many links to sources, but they are just links, not "references". That does not count, since links could be something else than references.
I'll try to edit it and transform the list of external links into references to verify the text. Lets hope that this will suffice.
Okay: found three articles about applications of ELOG and put them under references. I took the liberty to submit the draft: it shows that they expect some month delay for a review. I have no idea if that was what they want, but it is worth a try.
Edmund Blomley wrote: |
If I understand it correctly I think it has to be submitted for review with the blue button on that page, just not sure if that should come from your side or someone else
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
I added some more references, that's about all I can do. Not sure if that is enough.
Stefan
Edmund Blomley wrote: |
It was now moved to the Draft space (which I did not even now existed so far): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:ELOG
Sebastian Schenk wrote: |
I have requested an undeletion of the article. The article was deleted "PROD", which means that someone tagged it. And if noone removes the tag, it could be deleted.
I could revive the article. So in the future, One should have an eye on it and maybe update the current version of the software.
If there iy an paper on the elog, maybe it could be cited for more creditability.
Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
It looks to me like only an author of an article can contradict a deletion. I did not find a single method to even comment on the deletion.
I am not an Wikipedia expert, can anyone suggest on how to push for the article to be restored? Or do we just write it again, until people stop deleting it?
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
I agree. I ahead ;-) I think it is not a good idea if the ELOG author pushes on that, but better someone else.
Best,
Stefan
Sebastian Schenk wrote: |
Hello,
I noticed the wikipedia article of the ELOG got deleted in November 2021.
With the reason: "Poorly sourced article, and I was not able to find good sources myself."
I could access the old article through web.archive.org, but for the project it would be good, if the article got revived.
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