* Added script for turning maintenance mode ON/OFF.
* Updated documentation to include new maintenance mode script.

(Redmine issue: #6096,#3361)

(Redmine issue: #6096)

To be consistent with the rest of the system. SQLAlchemy ORM model does not allow to specify ALTER TABLE commands for models. Therefore it would be necessary to run migrations after clean installation, which could cause chaos and troubles with schema versions and stamping. I have moved the cluster commands to database optimization documentation, which is where they belong. (Redmine issue: #6096)

Radko Krkoš authored 5 years ago and Jan Mach committed 5 years ago

(Redmine issue: #3361)

Radko Krkoš authored 5 years ago and Jan Mach committed 5 years ago

* The events table was split to metadata only events and data only events_json,
  the documentation failed to recognize this.

(Redmine issue: #3361)

Radko Krkoš authored 5 years ago and Jan Mach committed 5 years ago

(Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

It is much better approach to leave all geoipupdate related stuff outside of the Mentat package a let administrator to install geolocation databases himself. Documentation was updated accordingly. (Redmine issue: #6157)

Updated installation documentation page to reflect Postgresql upgrade to v12 and new geoipupdate prerequisite.

(Redmine issue: #6157)

(Redmine issue: #6157)

(Redmine issue: #6096)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

By this move we attempt to speed up the searching process and lower the usage of system resources, because the amount of data the database engine needs to load and process will be significantly smaller. (Redmine issue: #4274,#4275)

JSON response could be really large in some scenarios, we have encountered objects 40MB large. Since the user is interested only in 'statistics' subkey, it is unnecessary to mae him download all the raw data as well.

* Added missing documentation pages for some Hawat plugins.
* Improved documentation of 'events' plugin.
* Few other minor documentation tweaks.

(Redmine issue: #3361)

Documentation was provided by Radko Krkoš, he gets the credit for all the work. (Redmine issue: #6003)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

After upgrade of underlying Debian system the Pytho virtual environment gets broken, because system Python binaries change. (Redmine issue: #3361,#3387)

(Redmine issue: #3387)

Documentation describing installation procedure for new developers. (Redmine issue: #3361)

Each group has an attribute indicating self-management. When enabled, notice about group membership requests is sent to all group managers. (Redmine issue: #5832)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

Implemented prototype built-in help pages for events/sear4ch and events/show endpoints. Improved the help pluggable module to autodiscover help pages. Improved autogenerated Sphinx documentation for events pluggable module. (Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #4277)

Sometimes the downtime due to the upgrade or error can be noticable to the users, so the well behaving application should have some kind of maintenance mode to inform the users. This commit contains simple web page with capabilites of variable substitutions (to insert separately generated timestamps about the duration of the downtime), an example site configuration for Apache web server and updated documentation page about sustem upgrade. (Redmine issue: #4277)

(Redmine issue: #4518)

(Redmine issue: #3361)

(Redmine issue: #3387)

Added more readable From: header instead of default root. Added extended email headers X-Mentat-Report-Class and X-Mentat-Report-Type to enable automated report processing. Changed the log directory to default /var/mentat/log. (Redmine issue: #5101)

The database sanity check scripts now produce better output, log the output aside to log files for later use and are easier to configure. The usage documentation was revised as well. (Redmine issue: #5101)

(Redmine issue: #4216)

The previous description was not exactly correct, I have found some issues after deployment to test server. (Redmine issue: #5101)

Configuration files and documentation regarding regular event reporting now clearly describe the steps necessary to enable sending emails to real world abuse contacts. (Redmine issue: #5101)

(Redmine issue: #4789)

(Redmine issue: #3361,#3387,#4216)

The makefile target 'develop' now pre-builds web interface artifacts. There is a new example configuration file for Apache2 that demonstrates the necessary configuration for Git installations. There is a custom WSGI script file for easier web interface installation from Git. (Redmine issue: #4216)

Removed unnecessary duplicit section about installation. (Redmine issue: #3361)

The installation manual was enhanced with the option of installing the project directly from Git repository. This option overlaps with the installation process for local development, so the development documentation page was also updated accordingly. (Redmine issue: #4216)

* The creation of Python virtual environment is now a separate makefile target.
* The 'develop' target now reuses already defined targets.
* Using python-dotenv to local configuration customizations.

(Redmine issue: #3387,#4216)

This version comes with improved application command line parameter documentation, some changes were necessary to make everything work again. (Redmine issue: #3387,#3361)