Using configuration files (AEN 4.2.1)#

The default locations for each component’s configuration files are:

  • Server—/opt/wakari/wakari-server/etc/wakari/config.json.
  • Gateway—/opt/wakari/wakari-gateway/etc/wakari/config.json.
  • Compute—/opt/wakari/wakari-compute/etc/wakari/config.json.

Additionally, service-specific configuration files may also be present in the following locations:

  • Server—/opt/wakari/wakari-server/etc/wakari/wk-server-config.json.
  • Gateway—/opt/wakari/wakari-gateway/etc/wakari/wk-gateway-config.json.
  • Compute—/opt/wakari/wakari-compute/etc/wakari/wk-compute-config.json.

Each service loads each of the configuration files in the following order and updates the AEN configuration at each step:

  1. /etc/wakari/config.json.
  2. /etc/wakari/wk-gateway-config.json.
  3. /opt/wakari/wakari-SERVICE/etc/wakari/config.json.
  4. /opt/wakari/wakari-SERVICE/etc/wakari/wk-SERVICE-config.json.
  5. ./config.json.
  6. ./wk-gateway-config.json.

AEN configuration keys

The following is a list of AEN supported configuration keys:

Server Configuration Keys
Key Default Description
CDN $WAKARI_SERVER/static/ The location of static assets.
MONGO_DB wakari The name of the AEN database in mongodb.
MONGO_URL mongodb://localhost/ The URL of your AEN server’s mongodb instance. Format: mongodb://<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>/
WAKARI_SERVER   The URL of this AEN server.
DEFAULT_PRIVACY public The default project privacy setting—can be either public or private.
SESSION_COOKIE_NAME wakari. enterprise.session The Cookie name used to maintain Anaconda Enterprise Notebooks Enterprise login sessions.
PERMANENT_SESSION True` Sets cookie session to permanent. This will keep the session open after the browser is closed. The session will still expire after the number of minutes set in the SESSION_LIFETIME key.
SESSION_LIFETIME 120 Time in minutes until the session expires. The counter resets with each request.
USE_SES false Sets whether AEN will use Amazon SES to send emails.
SMTP   Sets the SMTP email settings.
- host   A SMTP subkey—the SMTP mail server hostname.
- user   SMTP subkey—the username for SMTP server authentication.
- password   SMTP subkey—the password for SMTP server authentication.
- from_addr   SMTP subkey—the From address for emails sent through SMTP.
verify_gateway _certificate true A boolean setting that indicates whether your AEN server should verify the gateway SSL certificate.
accounts wk_server.plugins .accounts.cloud The account provider class. For LDAP, this should be set to wk_server.plugins.accounts.ldap_accounts.
uniqueEmail true A boolean setting that indicate whether unique user email addresses are required.
has_internet true Boolean for retrieving the avatar from the gravatar URL. If false a local default is used instead.
LDAP 389 LDAP configurations.
- SERVER   LDAP subkey—A list of LDAP servers. At least one server name must be listed. The primary server should be listed first. All secondary or fail-over servers should be listed after the primary.
- PORT 389 LDAP subkey—The LDAP port on the LDAP server.
- AUTH_TYPE   LDAP subkey—LDAP Authentication types. simple—no encryption not secure.``TLS``–encrypted secure requires the TLS_CERT to be set.
- TLS_CERT   LDAP subkey—the full path to the TLS certificate file. The certificate file must also be provided by the Enterprise.
- BASEDN   LDAP subkey—the LDAP Base DN value.
- OU   LDAP subkey—a list of Organizational Units. Some Enterprises group users by OUs in their LDAP server records. AEN will loop over the list of OUs when authenticating a user. The OU value is a list of lists to support multiple OUs where each OU is a single name or a hierarchy of names.
- ANON_USER   LDAP subkey—the username—such as public or anonymous– assigned users who are not logged in to access projects. For more information, see Configuring sudo customizations. Also used for MongoDB configuration.
SEARCH_ENABLED true Boolean indicating whether ElasticSearch is enabled
SEARCH_SERVER 'localhost:9200' IP address or domain name and port of ElasticSearch server
LOG_LEVEL 'DEBUG' Log verbosity. One of: ‘ERROR’ ‘WARN’ ‘INFO’ ‘DEBUG’
Gateway Configuration Keys
Key Default Description
WAKARI_SERVER   The URL of the AEN WAKARI_SERVER.
port 8089 The Port number used by the gateway application. Must be a non-privileged port (>= 1024).
client_id   The client ID assigned to this gateway by the server during wk-gateway-configure.
client_secret   The Client secret assigned to this gateway by the server during wk-gateway-configure.
httpTimeout 600 Timeout in seconds. The default is 10 minutes to allow project creation.
logLevel info Log verbosity. One of: ‘error’ ‘warn’ ‘info’ ‘debug’
Compute Node Configuration Keys
Key Default Description
WAKARI_SERVER   The URL of the AEN WAKARI_SERVER.
MANAGE_ACCOUNTS true A boolean setting that indicates whether AEN should manage system user accounts. Set to false for LDAP installations.
port 2227 The port number used by the compute-launcher application. Note that individual applications use dynamic ports.
projectRoot /projects The location of project file storage.
logLevel info Log verbosity. One of: ‘error’ ‘warn’ ‘info’ ‘debug’
logMaxSize 10000000 Max size in bytes of the logfile. Default is 10 MB. If the size is exceeded then a new file is created and a counter will become a suffix of the log file.
logMaxFiles 30 Limit the number of files created when the size of the logfile is exceeded
appIdleTime 172800000 (48 hours) The amount of idle time before applications will be auto-terminated (in msec).
idleCheckInterval 3600000 (1 hour) The frequency of idle checks.
numericUsernames false A boolean setting that indicates whether numeric usernames are permitted.
httpTimeout 600 The time before a timeout—in seconds. The default is 10 minutes—600 seconds—to allow time for project creation.
- ANON_USER   Username such as public or anonymous for users who are not logged in to access projects. For more information, see, Configuring sudo customizations. Also used for MongoDB configuration.
Server Internal Configuration Keys - Do not change
Key Default Description
PROVIDERS ["wk_server.plugins .providers.enterprise"] A list of compute provider classes.
MONGO_ACTION _LOG_SIZE 262144000 The size of the Mongo action log in bytes.
SITE_ADMINS   A list of site administrator email addresses—used for crash notifications and LDAP password reset requests.
FROM _EMAIL_ADDR  
The From address for notification emails sent by AEN.
uniqueUserName true A boolean setting that indicates whether unique usernames are required.
Gateway Internal Configuration Keys - Do not change
Key Default Description
CDN $WAKARI_SERVER/static/ The location of static assets.
SUBDOMAIN_ROUTING false A boolean that indicates whether subdomains are being used.
refreshTokenExpiration 600000 Idle time in milliseconds before the Gateway session expires.
Compute Node Internal Configuration Keys - Do not change
Key Default Description
CDN $WAKARI_SERVER/static/ The location of static assets.
USE_SES false Sets whether AEN will use Amazon SES to send emails.
multiUser true A boolean that indicates whether multi-user support is enabled.
multiProject true A boolean that indicates whether multi-project support is enabled.
ANACONDA_ROOT /opt/wakari/anaconda The location of your Anaconda installation.
appLogs /opt/wakari/wakari- compute/var/log/wakari/ compute-launcher-apps The directory where application logs are stored.
appPIDs /opt/wakari/wakari-compute/ var/run/compute-launcher-apps The directory where application PID files are stored.
applicationLog /opt/wakari/wakari-compute/ var/log/wakari/ compute-launcher.application.log The path to the compute launcher log.
accessLog opt/wakari/wakari-compute/ var/log/wakari/ compute-launcher.access.log Path to compute launcher access log

Checking configuration file syntax

To verify that the configuration file contains valid JSON, run:

root@server  # python -m json.tool /opt/wakari/wakari-server/etc/wakari/*.json
root@gateway # python -m json.tool /opt/wakari/wakari-gateway/etc/wakari/*.json
root@compute # python -m json.tool /opt/wakari/wakari-compute/etc/wakari/*.json

If the file is correct, the contents are displayed.

If there is a syntax error in the file, a “No JSON object could be decoded” message is displayed instead.

To fix any errors, edit the configuration file and verify that it contains the correct JSON syntax.