#1252 PR `merged`: DRLM management and security improvements¶

Labels: enhancement, documentation, cleanup, fixed / solved / done, external tool

This PR will improve DRLM and ReaR integration and solve a DRLM issue opened by @gdha (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239003).

brief description of changes:

add support for Multiple configs rear -C confname in DRLM (issue #1229)
Solve issue https://github.com/brainupdaters/drlm/issues/42, now the connection is verified by default and properly documented in default.conf.
Now ReaR logs will be sent in real time to DRLM.
Improved error handling with DRLM RESTful API and keep backwards compatibility with previous versions of ReaR (since 1.17) on DRLM side.
New default REAR_CAPATH="/etc/rear/cert" to store SSL certs used by ReaR. see default.conf

This code has been tested on RHEL/CentOS, SLES/OpenSUSE and Debian/Ubuntu.

@didacog
onyl a side note FYI:

I think the drlm_is_managed function can nowadays be
replaced by ReaR's generic function is_true
see lib/global-functions.sh for its usage.

Therefore

if ! drlm_is_managed ; then
    return 0
fi

would have to be replaced by

if ! is_true "$DRLM_MANAGED" ; then
    return 0
fi

or shorter by

is_true "$DRLM_MANAGED" || return 0

but the following would go wrong:

is_false "$DRLM_MANAGED" && return 0

@jsmeix Ok, I can change this and update de PR if you want or send a new PR for this change.

@didacog
if it is o.k. for you I would prefer when you change this PR.

@jsmeix

I've changed replaced drlm_is_managed by is_true.
Also improved a little the explanation of REAR_CAPATH in default.conf

Regards,

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]

#1252 PR merged: DRLM management and security improvements¶