SED Storage Visualiser

This project is a visualiser for outputs of Opal Toolset. It allows you to upload Discovery 0 outputs to it and then check the compliance of reported values according to pre-defined SSC definitions. This version comes with Opal 2.00 - 2.02 and Pyrite 2.02 pre-defined, but you can add your own SSC definitions.

Furthermore, you can add your own metadata to individual drives, to keep any testing you've done on them near.

The backed of this project is split into 2 parts: Flask server and a proxy like nginx. This was done to alleviate pressure on the Flask webserver, and to implement HTTPS more easily. If you don't want a proxy, then you'll need to modify the server.py to let Flask itself handle the HTTPS. HTTPS is needed to protect authentication of the created admin during logins.

Requirements

• Python 3.10 and higher
• Python 3 venv
• nginx or some other proxy (Tested on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and Debian 12.5.0)

Setup

There are two part to the setup of this tool.

First, the setup of the Flask server can be done using setup.sh. This will create a Python virtual enviroment, fetch the required modules and create a configuration for the server itself. You'll be asked to provide a name and a password for authentication to the authorized part of the app.

Second, a proxy. This project was tested with nginx, which is also recommended by Flask documentation authors. To help you with configuration, I've added the nginxExample.conf file, which is quite easy to modify and based on a generator by Mozilla. This is a reduced example used with a self-signed certificate. For a more complete example, you can go to Mozilla's website.

Run the project

Make sure you have your virtual enviroment activated

. .venv/bin/activate

You can run the project by either doing

python server.py

or

gunicorn --workers=3 server:app

and then acccess it on the address defined in your proxy config.

The gunicorn variant will spawn 3 workers, which is better if you expect more traffic to your instance of this project.

Additional info

These were the requierements for spinning-up the project. Further info about how to work with the project is in usecases.md.