Eve Overseer

Ever Overseer is a participation tracking application designed for use with Brave Neucore. It gives real-time statistics when hosting fleets, and stats on the fleet and player level for previous fleets. It can also track participation for core accounts and individual players alike.

Requirements

• Apache ≥ 2.4
• PHP ≥ 7
  • The pdo_mysql Extension
  • The curl Extension
  • The php_openssl.dll Extension
• Python ≥ 3.5
  • requests
  • schedule
  • Python MySQL Connector
• An SQL Server
  • If you are using MySQL, the Authentication Method MUST be the Legacy Version. PDO does not support the use of caching_sha2_password Authentication.
• A Neucore Application
  • The application needs the app-chars and app-groups roles added, along with any groups that you want to be able to host fleets or view participation data.
• A Registered Eve Online Application.
  • This can be setup via the Eve Online Developers Site.

Webapp Setup

• Setup the Configuration File in /config/config.ini as needed.
• If you need to move this file you'll need to change the path it's accessed from in /config/config.php
• Ensure Apache is configured to allow .htaccess files with use of the rewrite engine.
• Ensure Apache is configured to allow https connections.
• Ensure PHP is configured to allow .user.ini files.
• Set /public as Document Root in Apache.
• Once the Webapp has started, use the Admin page as a Super Admin to configure core group permissions.

Checker Setup

The checker is responsible for tracking fleet data in real time.

• After setting up the /config/config.ini file and connecting to the webapp at least once, you can run /checker/automaticallyRunChecks.py to begin tracking fleet data.
• Starting the tracker before connecting to the webapp will cause errors until the webapp is connected to, as the database is not yet generated.
• If (and ONLY if) you can run a script every 15 seconds, to the second, then you can use /checker/manuallyRunChecks.py. Runs of this script MUST start exactly 15 seconds apart, regardless of the status of previous runs.

Cronjob Setup

The cronjob is used to translate fleet stats into participation stats. It links players to core accounts and bases participation off this data. This can take several hours to run and so you should probably only run this once or twice a day.

• After setting up the /config/config.ini file and connecting to the webapp at least once, you can run /cronjob/cronChecks.py as a cronjob to update participation data.

To Deploy the Checker and Cronjob to Separate Servers

In the event that it's not easy to deploy the entire app to one server, the Python-Based Cronjob and Checker can be transferred to another server by following the instructions below:

• Make sure to copy the /config/config.ini file along with the /resources/data/geographicInformation.json /resources/data/aggregateTypes.json and /resources/data/TypeIDs.json files somewhere python can access them after they've been setup.
• Move the /checker and /cronjob folders to wherever you'll be running them from.
• In /cronjob/cronChecks.py and /checker/checker.py change the configPathOverride variable to an absolute path where your copy of config.ini being stored, and dataPathOverride to an absolute path where your three .json file copies are being stored.

Credits

• Icons used across the webapp are from the Octicon project by GitHub.