aa-intel-tool 0.0.1a1

A simple parser for D-Scans and more for Alliance Auth

AA Intel Tool

D-Scans and more in Alliance Auth.

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• AA Intel Tool
  • Overview
    • Features
    • Screenshots
      • Chat Scan
      • D-Scan
  • Installation
    • Step 1: Install the Package
    • Step 2: Configure Alliance Auth
      • Add the App to Alliance Auth
      • Add the Scheduled Task
      • (Optional) Allow Public Views
    • Step 4: Finalizing the Installation
    • Step 5: Update Your Webserver Configuration
      • Apache 2
      • Nginx
  • Settings
  • Changelog
  • Contributing

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Warning

This app is still in active development and only available as an early alpha version. Do not install this app in your live environment. If you want to test this app, do so in a dedicated test environment. Don't come crying if you wreck your live environment.

During the alpha phase, it is highly likely that the DB migrations will be reset a couple of times.

Bugs and errors are expected during this time as well, so feel free to report them as early as possible, if you dare to test this app.

Thank you!

Overview

Features

The following modules can be enabled or disabled. See Settings section for details.

• Chat scan module (Disabled by default due to its possible high number of ESI calls)
• D-Scan module

Screenshots

Chat Scan

D-Scan

Installation

Step 1: Install the Package

Make sure you're in the virtual environment (venv) of your Alliance Auth installation Then install the latest release directly from PyPi.

pip install aa-intel-tool

Step 2: Configure Alliance Auth

Add the App to Alliance Auth

This is fairly simple, configure your AA settings (local.py) as follows:

• Add aa_intel_tool to the list of INSTALLED_APPS

  # Add any additional apps to this list.
  INSTALLED_APPS += [
      "aa_intel_tool",  # https://github.com/ppfeufer/aa-intel-tool
  ]
  

Add the Scheduled Task

To remove old scans from your DB, add the following task. The retention time can be adjusted through the INTELTOOL_SCAN_RETENTION_TIME setting.

if "aa_intel_tool" in INSTALLED_APPS:
    # Run at 01:00 each day
    CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE["AA Intel Tool :: Housekeeping"] = {
        "task": "aa_intel_tool.tasks.housekeeping",
        "schedule": crontab(minute="0", hour="1"),
    }

(Optional) Allow Public Views

This app supports AA's feature of public views, since time zones conversion is not any mission-critical information. To allow users to view the time zone conversion page without the need to log in, please add "aa_intel_tool", to the list of APPS_WITH_PUBLIC_VIEWS in your local.py:

# By default, apps are prevented from having public views for security reasons.
# To allow specific apps to have public views, add them to APPS_WITH_PUBLIC_VIEWS
#   » The format is the same as in INSTALLED_APPS
#   » The app developer must also explicitly allow public views for their app
APPS_WITH_PUBLIC_VIEWS = [
    "aa_intel_tool",  # https://github.com/ppfeufer/aa-intel-tool
]

Note

If you don't have a list for APPS_WITH_PUBLIC_VIEWS yet, then add the whole block from here. This feature has been added in Alliance Auth v3.6.0 so you might not yet have this list in your local.py.

Step 4: Finalizing the Installation

Run static files collection and migrations.

python manage.py collectstatic
python manage.py migrate

Restart your supervisor services for Auth.

Step 5: Update Your Webserver Configuration

By default, webservers have a timout of about 30 seconds for requests. So we have to tweak that a little bit, since parsing intel data can take a while, and we don't want the webserver to spoil our fun, right?

Apache 2

Open your vhost configuration and add the following 2 lines right after the ProxyPreserveHost On directive:

Timeout      600
ProxyTimeout 600

Restart your Apache2 service.

Nginx

Open your vhost configuration and add the following lines inside the location / { directive:

proxy_connect_timeout 600;
proxy_send_timeout    600;
proxy_read_timeout    600;
send_timeout          600;

Restart your Nginx service.

Settings

To customize the app, the following settings are available and can be made in your local.py.

Name	Description	Default
INTELTOOL_ENABLE_MODULE_CHATSCAN	Enable or disable the chat scan module.	False
INTELTOOL_ENABLE_MODULE_DSCAN	Enable or disable the d-scan module.	True
INTELTOOL_ENABLE_MODULE_FLEETCOMP	Enable or disable the fleet composition module.	True
INTELTOOL_SCAN_RETENTION_TIME	Sets the time in days for how long the scans will be kept in the database. Set to 0 to keep scans indefinitely.	30
INTELTOOL_CHATSCAN_MAX_PILOTS	Sets the limit of pilots for chat scans, since these can take quite a long time to process. Set to 0 to disable.	500

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md

Contributing

Do you want to contribute to this project? That's cool!

Please make sure to read the Contribution Guidelines (I promise, it's not much, just some basics)