aa-intel-tool 1.2.0

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
      • Fleet Composition
  • 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: Preload Eve Universe Data
    • Step 5: Finalizing the Installation
    • Step 6: Update Your Webserver Configuration
      • Apache 2
      • Nginx
  • Settings
  • Changelog
  • Translation Status
  • Contributing

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Note

This app makes use of a feature introduced with Alliance Auth v3.6.1, meaning, installing this app will pull in Alliance Auth v3.6.1 unsupervised if you haven't updated yet.

Please make sure to update Allianceauth to version 3.6.1 or higher before you install this app to avoid any complications.

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

Fleet Composition

Installation

Note

Please make sure you meet all preconditions before you proceed:

• AA Intel Tool is a plugin for Alliance Auth. If you don't have Alliance Auth running already, please install it first before proceeding. (see the official Alliance Auth installation guide for details)
• AA Intel Tool needs at least Alliance Auth v3.6.1. Please make sure to meet this condition before installing this app, otherwise an update to Alliance Auth will be pulled in unsupervised.
• AA Intel Tool needs Eve Universe to function. Please make sure it is installed, before continuing.

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 eveuniverse (if not already done so for a different app) and aa_intel_tool to the list of INSTALLED_APPS.

# Add any additional apps to this list.
INSTALLED_APPS += [
    "eveuniverse",
    "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. To allow this feature, 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: Preload Eve Universe Data

AA Intel Tool utilizes the EveUniverse module, so it doesn't need to ask ESI for ship information. To set this up, you now need to run the following command.

python manage.py aa_intel_tool_load_eve_types

Step 5: Finalizing the Installation

Run static files collection and migrations.

python manage.py collectstatic
python manage.py migrate

Restart your supervisor services for Auth.

Step 6: 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:

ProxyTimeout 600
Timeout      600

Restart your Apache2 service.

Nginx

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

proxy_connect_timeout 600;
proxy_read_timeout    600;
proxy_send_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.

Warning

Enable the chat scan module at your own risk. This module has the potential to generate a huge number of ESI calls, which CCP might not be too happy about.

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	Set 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	Set the limit of pilots for chat scans, since these can take quite a long time to process. Set to 0 to disable.	500
INTELTOOL_DSCAN_GRID_SIZE	Set the grid size for D-Scans. This defines the size of the grid in km in which ships and structures are considered to be "on grid"	10000

Note

A word about the chat scan limitations:

It is advised to keep the INTELTOOL_CHATSCAN_MAX_PILOTS to a sane number. Large chat scans can take quite some time to parse and from a certain number of pilots, the bottleneck might be your browser refusing to render the results page. (Source: Trust me, bro …)

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md

Translation Status

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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)