suricate/backend repository overview

⁠Monitoring backend

Monitoring backend is a Springboot + JSF fatJar application used to configure and display dashboard.
It looks especially great on TVs.

⁠Community

Feel free to submit issues for bugs in Gitlab, new features, and enhancements.

⁠Installation

1. Download and install maven⁠

# Create the binary
$ mvn package
# Run project
$ java -jar ./target/monitoring.jar

The application is accessible on http://localhost:8080/⁠ with you login and password for the development LDAP.

⁠Configuration

⁠Development

With the default String profile, the backend - use an H2 in memory database - load all widgets from Gitlab - Use the development ldap

You can override these default configuration with an external configuration file, add in your launch command:

$ java -jar backend.jar -Dspring.config.location=file:D:\BUSDATA\conf\application.properties

Some properties are useful in development.
If you want to clone from a local gitlab repo, you can define a file path and a specific branch.

widget.local.folder=D:/BUSDATA/project/ContinousMonitoring/widgets
gitlab.widget.repo.branch=dev

If you want to use an external database:

###   DATASOURCES   ###
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://192.168.99.100:32771/backend?autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false&characterEncoding=utf8
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=root
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
spring.datasource.initialize=true
spring.datasource.continueOnError=true
spring.datasource.type=com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource

If you want the ldap integration, you can change the authentication provider.
Currently they are only two authentication providers (ldap and ldif).
The ldif define two users admin/admin and user/user.

security.authentication-provider=ldif