KA-Lite integration

[intelliant01]

From @cyberorg on March 22, 2017 3:15

https://hub.learningequality.org/languages/dashboard

Lot has been translated in hindi and bengali

Copied from original issue: RechercheTech/mss-doc#25

[intelliant01]

From @cyberorg on March 30, 2017 12:28

mssupdate serverip kalite

• English and Hindi content are preloaded
• admin, teachers and students accounts will have to be created
• Register the device(facility?), add school details

References: http://server:8008 See demo: http://demo.learningequality.org/ http://ka-lite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html mostly User manual section, starting from Adminstration http://ka-lite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usermanual/userman_main.html http://worldpossible.org/docs/wp/ops/user_manual_rachel_pi_3.1.pdf follow ka-lite section after creating admin user, keep it mssadmin with same password for now.

[intelliant01]

So for this we have to use the KA Lite Hub at learningequality.org and can't have a custom install in place as may be the requirement by some client?

I hope additional authentication requirements do not throw up the next need for central authentication and/or SSO at schools. :)

Will revert further after testing what's already integrated.

[intelliant01]

Upon last testing, kalite was not auto-starting upon MSS bootup. It required manual start via - # sudo systemctl start ka-lite

This is despite having executed - # sudo systemctl enable ka-lite

It may be an upstream bug and this needs to be fixed.

[intelliant01]

ka-lite started upon server start yesterday.

Seems some fix was rolled out and I may have applied it unknowingly along with other updates.

[intelliant01]

From @cyberorg on June 30, 2017 5:53

Needs 100G /recovery partition

[intelliant01]

Currently /recovery partition on 1 TB MSS is 99 or 100 GB but it is not desirable or compelling as yet to include this in the restore partition. Rather going forward I shall make it configurable as to what may be auto backed up for restoration and what not.

[intelliant01]

From @cyberorg on June 30, 2017 13:10

By default kalite will not be backed up, if backup is desired, it needs lot more than 100G /recovery partition.

What may/may not be backed up is configured in /home/mss/xyz, see kalite for example.

[intelliant01]

What ka-lite lacks currently to be used to its full potential in the context of mss is PAM auth or any other mechanism for centralised auth. This presents a technical challenge for schools. This may be worked upon at a later date in a ka-lite customisation project as ka-lite upstream development has stopped.

Even hindi content is not available currently for all subjects, hence its out-reach capabilities are limited. We may be able to work on improvements in that direction also.

With modularised deployment refined, this basic integration issue is closed.