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commit9896eaed88332eca7334a564a2ea2e0baf135639[log] [tgz]
authorEd Tanous <edtanous@google.com>Sat Jul 23 15:07:33 2022 -0700
committerEd Tanous <ed@tanous.net>Thu Aug 04 23:44:34 2022 +0000
treeeccd40d760bfd0d6e7ed77615af4fd8d5d2d679d
parent81584abe2616373033281ab2ec75407fc50306d1 [diff]
Drop boost::posix_time

Per the coding standard, if we can support what we need to do with
std variants of something, we should prefer that.  This commit adds an
iso8160 to string method that supports any arbitrary
std::chrono::duration object, which allows doing the full range of all
of our integer types, and reduces the complexity (and presumably compile
times) not pulling in a complex library.

Despite the heavy templating, this only appears to add 108 bytes of
compressed binary size to bmcweb.  This is likely due to the decreased
complexity compared to the boost variant (that likely pulls in
boost::locale).  (Ie 3 template instantiations of the simple one take
about the same binary space as 1 complex instantiation).

Tested:
Unit tests pass (pretty good coverage here)

Signed-off-by: Ed Tanous <edtanous@google.com>
Change-Id: I78200fb391b601eba8d2bfd2de0dd868e4390d6b
4 files changed
tree: eccd40d760bfd0d6e7ed77615af4fd8d5d2d679d
  1. .github/
  2. http/
  3. include/
  4. redfish-core/
  5. scripts/
  6. src/
  7. static/
  8. subprojects/
  9. .clang-format
  10. .clang-ignore
  11. .clang-tidy
  12. .dockerignore
  13. .gitignore
  14. .shellcheck
  15. bmcweb.service.in
  16. bmcweb.socket.in
  17. bmcweb_config.h.in
  18. build_x86.sh
  19. build_x86_docker.sh
  20. CLIENTS.md
  21. COMMON_ERRORS.md
  22. DEVELOPING.md
  23. Dockerfile
  24. Dockerfile.base
  25. HEADERS.md
  26. LICENSE
  27. meson.build
  28. meson_options.txt
  29. OEM_SCHEMAS.md
  30. OWNERS
  31. pam-webserver
  32. README.md
  33. Redfish.md
  34. run-ci
  35. setup.cfg
  36. 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, (Redfish.md)[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 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.

Debug logging

bmcweb by default is compiled with runtime logging disabled, as a performance consideration. To enable it in a standalone build, add the

-Dlogging='enabled'

option to your configure flags. If building within Yocto, add the following to your local.conf.

EXTRA_OEMESON:pn-bmcweb:append = "-Dbmcweb-logging='enabled'"

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.