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commit88ada3bc05ea247b6c8a24db49ebfdd268c17f4d[log] [tgz]
authorV-Sanjana <sanjana.v@intel.com>Thu Apr 13 15:18:31 2023 +0530
committerEd Tanous <ed@tanous.net>Thu Jun 01 20:43:11 2023 +0000
treef9dc4aa1415ea50a7d62c348b1118e307eb11b6a
parent600af5f1ee6f3a589d5c1a7be31579ca705eef71 [diff]
Add Server-Sent-Event support

Server-Sent-Event is a standard describing how servers can initiate
data transmission towards clients once an initial client connection has
been established. Unlike websockets (which are bidirectional),
Server-Sent-Events(SSE) are unidirectional and commonly used to send
message updates or continuous data streams to a browser client.

This is base patch for adding Server-Sent-Events routing support to
bmcweb. Redfish EventService SSE style subscription uses SSE route for
sending the Events/MetricReports to client which establishes the
connection.

Tested this patch with along with EventService SSE support patches and
verified the functionalty on browser.

Tested:
 - Tested using follow-up patches on top which adds
   support for Redfish EventService SSE style subscription
   and observed events are getting sent periodically.
 - Created SSE subscription from the browser by visiting
   https://<BMC IP>/redfish/v1/EventService/SSE

Change-Id: I36956565cbba30c2007852c9471f477f6d1736e9
Signed-off-by: AppaRao Puli <apparao.puli@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: P Dheeraj Srujan Kumar <p.dheeraj.srujan.kumar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: V-Sanjana <sanjana.v@intel.com>
5 files changed
tree: f9dc4aa1415ea50a7d62c348b1118e307eb11b6a
  1. .github/
  2. config/
  3. http/
  4. include/
  5. redfish-core/
  6. scripts/
  7. src/
  8. static/
  9. subprojects/
  10. test/
  11. .clang-format
  12. .clang-tidy
  13. .dockerignore
  14. .gitignore
  15. .markdownlint.yaml
  16. .openbmc-enforce-gitlint
  17. .prettierignore
  18. .shellcheck
  19. AGGREGATION.md
  20. CLIENTS.md
  21. COMMON_ERRORS.md
  22. DBUS_USAGE.md
  23. DEVELOPING.md
  24. HEADERS.md
  25. LICENSE
  26. meson.build
  27. meson_options.txt
  28. OEM_SCHEMAS.md
  29. OWNERS
  30. README.md
  31. Redfish.md
  32. run-ci
  33. setup.cfg
  34. TESTING.md
README.md

OpenBMC webserver

This component attempts to be a "do everything" embedded webserver for OpenBMC.

Features

The webserver implements a few distinct interfaces:

  • DBus event websocket. Allows registering on changes to specific dbus paths, properties, and will send an event from the websocket if those filters match.
  • OpenBMC DBus REST api. Allows direct, low interference, high fidelity access to dbus and the objects it represents.
  • Serial: A serial websocket for interacting with the host serial console through websockets.
  • Redfish: A protocol compliant, DBus to Redfish translator.
  • KVM: A websocket based implementation of the RFB (VNC) frame buffer protocol intended to mate to webui-vue to provide a complete KVM implementation.

Protocols

bmcweb at a protocol level supports http and https. TLS is supported through OpenSSL.

AuthX

Authentication

Bmcweb supports multiple authentication protocols:

  • Basic authentication per RFC7617
  • Cookie based authentication for authenticating against webui-vue
  • Mutual TLS authentication based on OpenSSL
  • Session authentication through webui-vue
  • XToken based authentication conformant to Redfish DSP0266

Each of these types of authentication is able to be enabled or disabled both via runtime policy changes (through the relevant Redfish APIs) or via configure time options. All authentication mechanisms supporting username/password are routed to libpam, to allow for customization in authentication implementations.

Authorization

All authorization in bmcweb is determined at routing time, and per route, and conform to the Redfish PrivilegeRegistry.

*Note: Non-Redfish functions are mapped to the closest equivalent Redfish privilege level.

Configuration

bmcweb is configured per the meson build files. Available options are documented in meson_options.txt

Compile bmcweb with default options

meson setup builddir
ninja -C builddir

If any of the dependencies are not found on the host system during configuration, meson will automatically download them via its wrap dependencies mentioned in bmcweb/subprojects.

Use of persistent data

bmcweb relies on some on-system data for storage of persistent data that is internal to the process. Details on the exact data stored and when it is read/written can seen from the persistent_data namespace.

TLS certificate generation

When SSL support is enabled and a usable certificate is not found, bmcweb will generate a self-signed a certificate before launching the server. Please see the bmcweb source code for details on the parameters this certificate is built with.

Redfish Aggregation

bmcweb is capable of aggregating resources from satellite BMCs. Refer to AGGREGATION.md for more information on how to enable and use this feature.