OpenHIM Administration Console

This application provides a web application to configure and manage the OpenHIM-core component. It provides the following features:

• Configure and manage OpenHIM channels
• View logged transactions
• Configure clients that can access particular routes
• Monitor the operations of the OpenHIM application
• Managing the security infrastructure
• Importing and exporting OpenHIM server configuration

See the development road-map for more details on what is to come!

See documentation and tutorials at openhim.org.

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Getting started with the OpenHIM Console

Developer guide

First ensure that you have the OpenHIM-core server up and running. See details on how to get the OpenHIM-core setup

Clone the repository and then run

npm install

To start up a development instance of the webapp run

npm start

For file changes to apply run npm build before starting the server.

To run tests:

npm test

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Docker

To spin up a full OpenHIM environment, navigate to the infrastructure folder and execute: docker-compose up

The config for the console is controlled via the default.json file in the config directory. The file is copied from your local repo on start up.

To edit the file:

#docker exec -it {console-container} bash
docker exec -it openhim-console bash
apt-get update && apt-get install vim -y
vi /usr/share/nginx/html/config/default.json

Or the sed command can be used

 sed -i -e  "s/localhost/<yourDomainHere>/g" /usr/share/nginx/html/config/default.json

Your file should look something like this:

{
  "protocol": "https", // Change the protocol to 'http' when the OpenHIM core API protocol is 'http'. The default OpenHIM core API protocol is 'https'
  "host": "localhost", // change this to the hostname for your OpenHIM-core server (This hostname _MUST_ be publicly accessible)
  "port": 8080, // change this to the API port of the OpenHIM-core server, default is 8080
  "title": "OpenHIM Admin Console", // You may change this to customize the title of the OpenHIM-console instance
  "footerTitle": "OpenHIM Administration Console", // You may change this to customize the footer of the OpenHIM-console instance
  "footerPoweredBy": "<a href='http://openhim.org/' target='_blank'>Powered by OpenHIM</a>",
  "loginBanner": "" // add text here that you want to appear on the login screen, if any.
}

Now, navigate to your web server and you should see the OpenHIM-console load (eg. http://localhost:9000) and login. The default username and password are:

• username: root@openhim.org
• password: openhim-password

You will be prompted to change this.

Note: You will have problems logging in if your OpenHIM server is still setup to use a self-signed certificate (the default). To get around this you can use the following workaround (the proper way to solve this is to upload a proper certificate into the OpenHIM-core):

Visit the following link: https://localhost:8080/authenticate/root@openhim.org in Chrome. Make sure you are visiting this link from the system that is running the OpenHIM-core. Otherwise, replace localhost and 8080 with the appropriate OpenHIM-core server hostname and API port. You should see a message saying "Your connection is not private". Click "Advanced" and then click "Proceed". Once you have done this, you should see some JSON, you can ignore this and close the page. Ths will ignore the fact that the certificate is self-signed. Now, you should be able to go back to the Console login page and login. This problem will occur every now and then until you load a properly signed certificate into the OpenHIM-core server.

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Developer guide

Clone the repository and then run

npm install

To start up a development instance of the webapp run

npm run start:dev

To start up a production instance run

npm start

For file changes to apply run npm build before starting the server.

To run tests:

npm test

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Deployments

All commits to the master branch will automatically trigger a build of the latest changes into a docker image on dockerhub.

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Creating CentOS RPM package

The build process for the RPM package is based off this blog. The reason for using vagrant instead of docker is so that we can test the RPM package by running it as a service using SystemCtl - similar to how it will likely be used in a production environment. SystemCtl is not available out the box in docker containers.

Refer to this blog for a more detailed description of a possible work-around. This is not recommended since it is a hack. This is where vagrant comes in since it sets up an isolated VM.

1. Setup environment

   Navigate to the infrastructure folder: infrastructure/centos

   Provision VM and automatically build RPM package:

   vagrant up

   or without automatic provisioning (useful if you prefer manual control of the process):

   vagrant up --no-provision

2. [Optional] The Vagrant file provisions the VM with the latest source code from master and attempts to compile the RPM package for you. However in the event an error occurs, or if you prefer to have manual control over the process, then you'll need to do the following:

   • Remote into the VM: vagrant ssh
   • Download or sync all source code into VM.
   • Ensure all dependencies are installed.

   npm i && npm i speculate

   • Run speculate to generate the SPEC files needed to build the RPM package.

   npm run spec

   • Ensure the directory with the source code is linked to the rpmbuild directory - the folder RPMBUILD will use.

   ln -s ~/openhim-console ~/rpmbuild

   • Build RPM package.

   rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/openhim-console.spec

3. Install & Test package

   sudo yum install -y ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/openhim-console-{current_version}.x86_64.rpm
   sudo systemctl start openhim-console
   curl http://localhost:9000

   Note: In order for openhim-console to run successfully, you'll need to point it to a valid instance of Openhim-core or install it locally:

4. How to check the logs?

   sudo systemctl status openhim-console
   sudo tail -f -n 100 /var/log/messages

5. If everything checks out then extract the RPM package by leaving the VM.

   Install Vagrant scp plugin:

   vagrant plugin install vagrant-scp

   Then copy the file from the VM:

   vagrant scp default:/home/vagrant/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/{filename}.rpm .

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Contributing

You may view/add issues here: https://github.com/jembi/openhim-console/issues

To contribute code, please fork the repository and submit a pull request. The maintainers will review the code and merge it in if all is well.