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ctrl is a Command & Control (C2) backend system for Servers, IOT and Edge platforms. Simply put, control anything.
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steward
Async management of Edge units.
Concepts/Ideas
Terminology
- Node: An installation of an operating system with an ip address
- Process: One message handler running in it's own thread with 1 subject for sending and 1 for reply.
- Message:
- Command: Something to be executed on the message received. An example can be a shell command.
- Event: Something that have happened. An example can be transfer of syslog data from a host.
Naming
Subject
Subject naming are case sensitive, and can not contain the space are the tab character.
<nodename>.<command/event>.<method>
Nodename: Are the hostname of the device. This do not have to be resolvable via DNS, it is just a unique name for the host to receive the message.
Command/Event: Are type of message sent. command
or event
. Description of the differences are mentioned earlier.
Method: Are the functionality the message provide. Example could be shellcommand
or syslogforwarding
Complete subject example
For syslog of type event to a host named "ship1"
ship1.event.syslogforwarding
and for a shell command of type command to a host named "ship2"
ship2.command.shellcommand