[Halld] Fwd: Logbooks - 2 heads up

[David Lawrence]

FYI


Regards,
-David

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David Lawrence Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Newport News, VA
davidl at jlab.org
(757) 269-5567 W
(757) 746-6697 C


> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Theo Larrieu <theo at jlab.org>
> Subject: Logbooks - 2 heads up 
> Date: September 27, 2018 at 5:18:46 PM EDT
> To: Graham Heyes <heyes at jlab.org>, Brad Sawatzky <brads at jlab.org>, David Lawrence <davidl at jlab.org>, Douglas Higinbotham <doug at jlab.org>, Stephen Wood <saw at jlab.org>, Steve Suhring <suhring at jlab.org>, Randy Michaud <rmichaud at jlab.org>
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> A couple quick items with regard to logbooks.jlab.org <http://logbooks.jlab.org/>:
>  
> 1)       Early tomorrow morning, CNI is implementing a DOE-mandated change to externally accessible webservers such that all connections will be forced to use SSL.  There will be a < 1minute blip around 6:30 AM tomorrow while Marty stops and restarts the web server process after editing the config file.   Users shouldn’t see any difference connecting afterwards because traffic has always been redirected from HTTP to HTTPS since the server was first stood up.   One area of minor concern however was that the API tools had an exception that allowed them to retrieve the XML Logentry schema definition over HTTP.  Ryan and I spent a fair amount of time testing today to see whether the Java and C++ libxml libraries would handle SSL and more importantly, being redirected from http to https.  What we came up with is that the Java library behaves well and will follow the redirect once it is in place.  The C++ library does not honor the redirect, but does work over SSL if it is configured to do so explicitly.  The configuration file has therefore been updated.  Long story short, this should go smoothly – the thing to be on the lookout for tomorrow is programmatic entries that normally post immediately falling back to queueing on the file server (or perhaps failing altogether if they don’t have access to file server fallback).
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> 2)      An enhancement requested by Arne has been made to the “Useful Links” web page to allow a user to filter the list to show only the links flagged as relevant to a particular logbook set as illustrated in the attached screen shot.  To make the feature work optimally, it may be necessary to edit some of the links to alter which logbooks (and thereby sets) they are associated with.  I believe you all should have the permission to make those tweaks if you want to do any fine tuning.  It’s also possible just to keep using the complete list as before – the filter is optional.
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> -Theo

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