RBNHole builds on the work done by Eric June KU6J (SK)'s RBNGate system. As a Gate is a neat, ordered space in a fence, and a hole is a ragged gap that servers a similar purpose, I've called this RBNHole in homage.
Important: Do not run an RBNHole server without the approval of the SOTA Management Team. This code is provided to allow others to run a server in the case of myself going SK or some other bus-worthy incident.
Make sure you have a new version of rust, cargo and MySQL/MariaDB installed.
Be sure to edit the passwords.rs file for each component to match the SQL
users and passwords created below. Build with cargo build --release
In order to configure MySQL to take the RBN data and alerts, it is necessary first to use mysqlrestore to restore db_schema.sql. You will then need to create a number of users complete with passwords in order to allow access to the various components.
The first user is used for pulling spots and alerts from the RBN and from SOTAWatch. It has the following GRANTS in the database:
GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'rbn_spot'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'XXXXXXXX'
GRANT INSERT ON `rbn_hole`.* TO 'rbn_spot'@'localhost'
GRANT SELECT ON `rbn_hole`.`ExcludedActivators` TO 'rbn_spot'@'localhost'
GRANT DROP ON `rbn_hole`.`alerts` TO 'rbn_spot'@'localhost'
GRANT SELECT,UPDATE ON `rbn_hole`.`watchdog` TO 'rbn_spot'@'localhost'
The second user is used for reading and posting spots to SOTAWatch. This user has the following GRANTS in the database:
GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'spotter'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'XXXXXXXX'
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, EXECUTE ON `rbn_hole`.* TO 'spotter'@'localhost'
GRANT UPDATE ON `rbn_hole`.`watchdog` TO 'spotter'@'localhost'
The third user is for the monitoring script. This script can be used to determine the connectivity of the RBN environment.
GRANT SELECT, INSERT ON rbn_hole.* TO 'monitoring'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'XXXXXXXX'
Finally, you will need to configure cron to run the scripts at appropriate intervals.
I have the following cron tasks set up:
*/2 * * * * /path/to/rbnhole/rbn_hole >> /path/to/rbnhole/rbn.txt
*/5 * * * * /path/to/rbnhole/fetch_alerts >> /path/to/rbnhole/alerts.txt
*/1 * * * * /path/to/rbnhole/monitor_spots >> /path/to/rbnhole/monitor.txt
*/1 * * * * /path/to/rbnhole/post_spots_db_api >> /path/to/rbnhole/spots.txt
You will probably want to logrotate the output from rbn_hole at some point. The output from rbn.txt and spots.txt can be used to determine why an activator wasn't spotted (usually callsign not spotted on RBN, callsign different to alert or callsign spotted outside of the window.