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Fixes: #296

Signed-off-by: Nathan Cutler <[email protected]>
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<sect2 xml:id="_backend_installation">
<title>Back-end Installation</title>
<para>The back-end hosts all sources and built packages. It also schedules
the jobs. To install it, install the "obs-server" package. You should
check the <emphasis role="strong">/usr/lib/obs/server/BSConfig.pm</emphasis> file,
though the defaults should be good enough for simple cases.</para>
<para>You can control the different back-end components via systemctl.
the jobs. To install it, install the "obs-server" package. After installation,
it's a good idea to check the service configuration in
<emphasis role="strong">/usr/lib/obs/server/BSConfig.pm</emphasis>, although
the defaults should be good enough for simple cases.</para>
<note>
<para>
Read more about configuring the backend in <xref linkend="_distributed_setup"/>.
</para>
</note>
<para>The back-end consists of a number of services that are controlled via systemctl.
Basically you can enable/disable the service during booting the system and
start/stop/restart it in a running system. For more information, see
<link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemctl.html#Commands">the systemctl man page</link>.
For example, to restart the repository
server, do:</para>
For example, to restart the repository server, do:
</para>
<screen>systemctl restart obsrepserver.service</screen>
<table frame="all" rowsep="1" colsep="1">
<title>Service Names</title>
<title>Services</title>
<?dbhtml table-width="75%"?>
<?dbfo table-width="75%"?>
<?dblatex table-width="75%"?>
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<colspec colname="col_3" colwidth="74*"/>
<thead>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top"> Component </entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top"> Service Name </entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top"> Remarks</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top"> Service </entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top"> Description </entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top"> Remark </entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Source Server</para>
<para>obssrcserver.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>obssrcserver.service</para>
<para>Source server</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para/>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Repository</para>
<para>obsrepserver.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Server obsrepserver.service</para>
<para>Repository server</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para/>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Source</para>
<para>obsservice.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Services obsservice.service</para>
<para>Source services server</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para/>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Download</para>
<para>obsdodup.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>obsdodup.service</para>
<para>Repository metadata download</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>since 2.7</para>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Delta Storage</para>
<para>obsdeltastore.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>obsdeltastore.service</para>
<para>Delta storage</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>since 2.7</para>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Scheduler</para>
<para>obsscheduler.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>obsscheduler.service</para>
<para>Scheduler</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para/>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Dispatcher</para>
<para>obsdispatcher.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>obsdispatcher.service</para>
<para>Dispatcher proxy</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para/>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Publisher</para>
<para>obsservicedispatch.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>obspublisher.service</para>
<para>Dispatcher</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para/>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Signer</para>
<para>obspublisher.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Publisher</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para/>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>obssigner.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Signer proxy</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para/>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Warden</para>
<para>obssignd.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>obswarden.service</para>
<para>Signer</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para/>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Cloud upload worker</para>
<para>obswarden.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Warden</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para/>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>obsclouduploadworker.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Cloud upload worker</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Only needed for cloud upload feature</para>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Cloud upload server</para>
<para>obsclouduploadserver.service</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>obsclouduploadserve.service</para>
<para>Cloud upload server</para>
</entry>
<entry align="left" valign="top">
<para>Only needed for cloud upload feature</para>
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</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<para>The sequence in the table reflects the start sequence, you need to
enable the services with</para>
<para>At start time, obssrcserver.service (the source
server) must be started first, and obsrepservice.service
second. The remaining services can be started in any order. When installing
manually, you will need to first enable the services with</para>
<screen>systemctl enable &lt;name&gt;</screen>
<para>first and then you can start them:</para>
<para>so they start automatically at boot (the start order is enforced via
the respective systemd unit files) and then you can start them:</para>
<screen>systemctl start obssrcserver.service
systemctl start obsrepserver.service
systemctl start obsservice.service
systemctl start obsdodup.service
systemctl start obsdeltastore.service
systemctl start obsscheduler.service
systemctl start obsdispatcher.service
systemctl start obspublisher.service
systemctl start obssigner.service
systemctl start obswarden.service
systemctl start obsclouduploadworker.service
systemctl start obsclouduploadserver.service
</screen>
followed by the remaining services in any order.
<warning>
<para>The commands start services which are accessible from the outside. Do
not do this on a system connected to an untrusted network or make sure to
block the ports with a firewall.</para>
<para>The start-up commands start services which are accessible from the
outside. If the system is connected to an untrusted network, either block
the ports with a firewall or do not run the commands at all.</para>
</warning>
<sect3 xml:id="_cloud_upload_setup">
<title>Cloud Upload Setup</title>
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<screen>
our $clouduploadserver = "http://$hostname:5452";
</screen>
<para>
Read more about configuring the backend in <xref linkend="_distributed_setup"/>.
</para>
<warning>
<para>
Ensure that the system time of your cloud uploader instance is correct.
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