How to pass Basic authntication headers to backend server via API Manager


First let me explain how authorization headers work in API Manager. When user send authorization header along with API request we will use it for API authentication purpose. And we will drop it from out going message.
If you want to pass clients auth headers to back end server without dropping them at gateway you can enable following parameter and disable it.
Update following property in /repository/conf/api-manager.xml and restart server.

false

Then it will not drop user sent authorization headers at gateway. So whatever user send will go to back end as well

Send API request with Basic Auth header.

Incoming message to API gateway. As you can see we do not use API Manager authentication here. For this we can set resource auth type as none when we create API. Then send Basic auth header that need to pass back end server.
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,010] DEBUG - wire >> "GET /test-sanjeewa1/1.0.0 HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,011] DEBUG - wire >> "User-Agent: curl/7.32.0[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,011] DEBUG - wire >> "Host: 10.100.1.65:8280[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,011] DEBUG - wire >> "Accept: */*[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,011] DEBUG - wire >> "Authorization: Basic 2690b6dd2af649782bf9221fa6188[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,011] DEBUG - wire >> "[\r][\n]"

Out going message from gateway. You can see client sent Basic auth header is present in out going message
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,024] DEBUG - wire << "GET http://localhost/apim1/ HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,025] DEBUG - wire << "Authorization: Basic 2690b6dd2af649782bf9221fa6188[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,025] DEBUG - wire << "Accept: */*[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,025] DEBUG - wire << "Host: localhost:80[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,025] DEBUG - wire << "Connection: Keep-Alive[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,026] DEBUG - wire << "User-Agent: Synapse-PT-HttpComponents-NIO[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 18:08:05,026] DEBUG - wire << "[\r][\n]"


Other possible option is setting Basic auth headers at API gateway. For this we have 2 options.


01. Define Basic auth headers in API when you create API(see attached image). 



In API implement phase you can provide required basic auth details. Then API manager gateway will send provided authorization details as basic oauth headers to back end. Here we can let client to send Bearer token authorization header with API request. And gateway will drop it(after Bearer token validation) and pass Basic auth header to back end.

Incoming message to API gateway. Here user send Bearer token to gateway. Then gateway validate it and drop from out message.
[2015-02-27 17:36:15,580] DEBUG - wire >> "GET /test-sanjeewa/1.0.0 HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:36:15,595] DEBUG - wire >> "User-Agent: curl/7.32.0[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:36:15,595] DEBUG - wire >> "Host: 10.100.1.65:8280[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:36:15,595] DEBUG - wire >> "Accept: */*[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:36:15,595] DEBUG - wire >> "Authorization: Bearer 2690b6dd2af649782bf9221fa6188-[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:36:15,595] DEBUG - wire >> "[\r][\n]"

Out going message from gateway. You can see Basic auth header added to out going message
[2015-02-27 17:36:20,523] DEBUG - wire << "GET http://localhost/apim1/ HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:36:20,539] DEBUG - wire << "Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:36:20,539] DEBUG - wire << "Accept: */*[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:36:20,540] DEBUG - wire << "Host: localhost:80[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:36:20,540] DEBUG - wire << "Connection: Keep-Alive[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:36:20,540] DEBUG - wire << "User-Agent: Synapse-PT-HttpComponents-NIO[\r][\n]"



02. This is also same as previous sample. But if need you can set API resource authorization type as none. Then client don't need to send anything in request. But APIM will add Basic auth headers to outgoing message.
You can understand message flow and headers by looking following wire log 


Incoming message to API gateway
[2015-02-27 17:37:10,951] DEBUG - wire >> "GET /test-sanjeewa/1.0.0 HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:37:10,953] DEBUG - wire >> "User-Agent: curl/7.32.0[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:37:10,953] DEBUG - wire >> "Host: 10.100.1.65:8280[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:37:10,953] DEBUG - wire >> "Accept: */*[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:37:10,953] DEBUG - wire >> "[\r][\n]"

Out going message from gateway. You can see Basic auth header is present in out going message
[2015-02-27 17:37:13,766] DEBUG - wire << "GET http://localhost/apim1/ HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:37:13,766] DEBUG - wire << "Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:37:13,766] DEBUG - wire << "Accept: */*[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:37:13,766] DEBUG - wire << "Host: localhost:80[\r][\n]"
[2015-02-27 17:37:13,766] DEBUG - wire << "Connection: Keep-Alive[\r][\n]"

How to modify API Manager publisher to remove footer - API Manager 1.8.0

1. Go to publisher jaggery app (/repository/deployment/server/jaggeryapps/publisher)

2. Go to subthemes folder in publisher (site/themes/default/subthemes)

3. Create a folder with the name of your subtheme. For example "nofooter"

4. Create a folder called 'css' inside 'nofooter' folder

5. Copy the "/repository/deployment/server/jaggeryapps/publisher/site/themes/default/css/localstyles.css" to the new subtheme's css location " /repository/deployment/server/jaggeryapps/publisher/site/themes/default/subthemes/nofooter/css/"

6. Copy the "/repository/deployment/server/jaggeryapps/publisher/site/themes/default/images" folder to the new subtheme location " /repository/deployment/server/jaggeryapps/publisher/site/themes/default/subthemes/nofooter/"

7. add following css to localstyles.css file in "/repository/deployment/server/jaggeryapps/publisher/site/themes/default/subthemes/nofooter/css/" folder

#footer{
    display:none;
}

8. Edit "/repository/deployment/server/jaggeryapps/publisher/site/conf/site.json" file as below in order to make the new sub theme as the default theme.
         "theme" : {
               "base" : "default",
               "subtheme" : "nofooter"
        }

How monitor WSO2 server CPU usage and generate thread dump on high CPU usage using simple shell script

When we deployed WSO2 servers in production deployments we may need to monitor them for high CPU and memory usages. So in this article i will describe how we can use simple shell script to monitor server CPU usage and generate thread dump using jstack command.

First you need to create test.sh script using following command.
 vi test.sh 

Then paste following script content.

#!/bin/bash
# 1: ['command\ name' or PID number(,s)] 2: MAX_CPU_PERCENT
[[ $# -ne 2 ]] && exit 1
PID_NAMES=$1
# get all PIDS as nn,nn,nn
if [[ ! "$PID_NAMES" =~ ^[0-9,]+$ ]] ; then
    PIDS=$(pgrep -d ',' -x $PID_NAMES)
else
    PIDS=$PID_NAMES
fi
#  echo "$PIDS $MAX_CPU"
MAX_CPU="$2"
MAX_CPU="$(echo "($MAX_CPU+0.5)/1" | bc)"
LOOP=1
while [[ $LOOP -eq 1 ]] ; do
    sleep 0.3s
    # Depending on your 'top' version and OS you might have
    #   to change head and tail line-numbers
    LINE="$(top -b -d 0 -n 1 -p $PIDS | head -n 8 \
        | tail -n 1 | sed -r 's/[ ]+/,/g' | \
        sed -r 's/^\,|\,$//')"
    # If multiple processes in $PIDS, $LINE will only match\
    #   the most active process
    CURR_PID=$(echo "$LINE" | cut -d ',' -f 1)
    # calculate cpu limits
    CURR_CPU_FLOAT=$(echo "$LINE"| cut -d ',' -f 9)
    CURR_CPU=$(echo "($CURR_CPU_FLOAT+0.5)/1" | bc)
    echo "PID $CURR_PID: $CURR_CPU""%"
    if [[ $CURR_CPU -ge $MAX_CPU ]] ; then
        now="$(date)"
        echo "PID $CURR_PID ($PID_NAMES) went over $MAX_CPU""%" on $now
        jstack $CURR_PID > ./$now+jlog.txt
        echo "[[ $CURR_CPU""% -ge $MAX_CPU""% ]]"
        LOOP=0
        break
    fi
done
echo "Stopped"

Then we need to get process id of running WSO2 server by running following command.

sanjeewa@sanjeewa-ThinkPad-T530:~/work$ jps
30755 Bootstrap
8543 Jps
4892 Main




Now we know carbon server running with process ID 30755. Then we can start our script by providing init parameters(process ID and CPU limit). So it will keep printing CPU usage in terminal and once it reached limit it will take thread dump using jstack command. It will create new file with with embedding current date time and push Jstack output to it.

We can start scritp like this.
 sh test.sh <processId> <CPU Limit>


sanjeewa@sanjeewa-ThinkPad-T530:~/work$ sh test.sh 30755 10
PID 30755: 0%
PID 30755: 0%
PID 30755: 0%
PID 30755: 0%
PID 30755 (30755) went over 10% on 2015 පෙබරවාරි 19 වැනි බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා 14:44:55 +0530
[[ 13% -ge 10% ]]
Stopped

As you can see when CPU goes above 10% it will create log file and append thread dump.

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