[389-devel] Instance discovery tools in lib389

[William Brown]

Hi,

> > 
> > Ultimately, I would like to see some of your new functionally go into 
> > the existing core module, and then write your tools based off of those.  
> > This way it can be leveraged outside of your "specific task" tools - for 
> > use in other new/future tools.  Of course I am specualting a bit, 
> > because I have not seen what you are working on yet.
> 
> You have already seen my work, and acked most of the functionality into the 
> core
> modules. Additionally the aci.py module is waiting in your inbox for informal
> review. 
> 
> For example: 
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/48236 <- Will be used in conjunction with
> aci.py to evaluate and test aci functionality is working as expected, both in
> the aci evaluation engine in 389ds, but also from a semantic point of view of
> user acis
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/48238 <- Is all the functionality needed 
> to
> make the schema query tool I was discussing before.

Here is a patch with an example of what I have in mind. It's not perfected, or
polished, but it demonstrates what I have in mind.

To use it:

python clitools/ds_list_instances.py

python clitools/ds_schema_attributetype_list.py -i "instance name"

The main details are:

* It must be run on the same system as the ds instance.
* It respects PREFIX for your DS instances.
* This tool requires permissions to read dse.ldif of the instance. It currently
doesn't handle permission denied gracefully, as after all it's a POC.

I hope this demonstrates how I want to tie together the other contributions I
have made into tools, but also making it possible to test other aspects of
389ds. 

Comments and advice welcome.

-- 
William Brown <william at blackhats.net.au>
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