Caution!
This package is no longer maintained, its repository has been archived. If you want to work on it please open a ticket in https://github.com/zopefoundation/meta/issues requesting its unarchival.
The replacement for the former grok.admin package.
The internal name of the admin UI is: Grok Application Interface Application or, for short GAIA.
GAIA is itself a Grok application and a subproject to the core Grok development. Its main goal is making developing of Zope 3 and Grok applications a faster and smarter job with more fun for everybody.
Before you can use the admin UI, you first must log in.
The username and password of the manager principal (kind of super user) can be found in the file buildout.cfg in the root of your subversion checkout.
In case you do not know, what 'subversion checkout' means, look for a file site.zcml in your installation.
Users of grokproject, might find this file in <installdir>/parts/app/site.zcml.
After login you can visit some of the main management topics, as described below:
On top of the admin-UI you can always find three links to the main management activities currently possible with GAIA:
- List of all instanciated applications
- You can add new instances of Grok applications
- You can rename instances of Grok applications
- You can delete your installed applications.
Note
starting with version 0.5 there is no introspector/class browser included in grokui.admin anymore. Eventually this will be made available in another package by someone else.
- Set security notifications. Those are by default disabled, because they mean home-calling functionality you may do not want. You can enable/disable those notifications or set a URL to retrieve information about security related problems.
- Start/Restart the server. Caution! This does not work, if the server was started in 'foreground mode' (with 'zopectl fg').
Pack the ZODB. This removes old data from the database, freeing up disk space. In a production environment, you might want to pack the ZODB automatically from cron. This can be done using a command like the following:
curl -q -s -u admin:admin "http://localhost:8080/++grokui++/@@server?pack=1&days=1"which will remove old data older than one day. If you leave out the days parameter, all old data will be removed.
- Get basic information about the running Zope system.
- Enter a message to be displayed on top. You can, for example, leave a message here for your co-admins. To delete the message, just enter the empty string in the appropriate input box.
There are some special info views available especially for the use of system administrators that want to automate Grok administration in some aspects. They provide minimal information about certain topics.
Currently the following infos are available this way:
The grok version working in background:
curl -q -s -u admin:admin "http://localhost:8080/++grokui++/@@admin/@@version"The security notification (if any):
curl -q -s -u admin:admin "http://localhost:8080/++grokui++/@@admin/@@secnote"
Beside this you can pack the ZODB databases as described above.