Proteus

The OONI Probe Orchestration System.

This repository contains the various microservices that compose the OONI Probe Orcehstration System.

proteus-registry

Status: ~COMPLETE

Is responsible for registering probes and keeping tabs on what their related metadata is.

proteus-notify

Status: ~COMPLETE

Is responsible for dispatching notifications out to OPOS clients depending on the capabilities they support.

proteus-frontend

Status: WIP

Is the frontend to:

• Setup schedules

• View active schedules

• View active probes

proteus-events

Status: ~90%

Is responsible for receiving events via the admin interface and triggering notifications via proteus-notify.

Can also be used to view the event history.

Notifications specification

A client needs to register to the proteus-registry service.

The canonical address for it shall be https://registry.XXX.YYY.ZZZ/. We also support the cloudfronted domain as following.

Registration

Upon first running the app the client needs to registry with the notification service.

Once a client is registered they can update the various metadata related to the probe by means of an update request (detailed in the following section).

To register a probe a the following HTTPS request is issued:

Method: POST Path: /api/v1/register Body:

{
  "probe_cc": "IT",
  "probe_asn": "AS0",
  "platform": "android",
  "software_name": "ooniprobe-android",
  "software_version": "0.1.1",
  "software_language": "IT",
  "supported_tests": ["tcp_connect", "web_connectivity"],
  "network_type": "wifi",
  "available_bandwidth": "100",
  "token": "TOKEN_ID"
}

In particular the token field represents the Device Token.

The registration service will return a client_id to be used to update the Device Token as well as other metadata.

The response looks like this:

{"client_id": "XXX-YYY-ZZZ-TTT"}

Update metadata

In order do update the metadata you to issue the following request:

Method: PUT Path: /api/v1/update/$CLIENT_ID Body:

{
  "probe_cc": "IT",
  "probe_asn": "AS0",
  "platform": "android",
  "software_name": "ooniprobe-android",
  "software_version": "0.1.1",
  "supported_tests": ["tcp_connect", "web_connectivity"],
  "network_type": "wifi",
  "available_bandwidth": "100",
  "token": "NEW_TOKEN_ID"
}

The server will respond with:

{"status": "ok"}

in case of an error:

{"error": "ERROR_MESSAGE"}

Notifications

A notification includes in the payload of the silent notification a pingback URL that the client needs to connect to in order to receive the task that it need to run to perform the actual measurement.