Phase 1 exists to hand the partner its identity before the install, but the push refused any
host without varaverk.cfg — so the conf could only ever reach a node that no longer needed it
to be told who it was. It now resolves the remote's conf directory across both install layouts
and creates the internal one when neither exists.
Both checks already answered their question on demand and both needed
somebody to press a button on the right row. One host here has returned
nothing but 5xx for months.
Filed as findings, which is the existing answer to a condition that
persists while nobody is looking. Grouped by cause rather than by
hostname: a default policy of bypass produced twenty-two findings that
were one sentence repeated, and they have one fix between them.
A low uptime figure, a refused login and a certificate that stopped
renewing all looked the same from the row: a number, with the reason
split across NPM, an Authelia config and the directory.
The why-check goes and looks — TCP to the forward target, HTTP through
the proxy, a second handshake with verification off to tell a broken
certificate from a broken service. Forward hosts are docker names that
only resolve on NPM's network, so an unresolvable one is redirected to
the container address and the substitution is reported; a check that
could not be made must never read as a check that failed.
The access simulator walks the rules the way Authelia does and shows the
ones it stepped over, reading whichever instance the chosen host points
at rather than the one conf names — there are two here.
Cert triage counts runs rather than log lines and orders by rotation
suffix rather than mtime, both of which change the answer.
NPM's access log only describes hosts somebody visited; the host most likely to be quietly broken
is the one nobody does. Probes carry a User-Agent npm_access_stats.sh drops — unmarked, this
monitor would be fifty thousand requests a day in the very logs it reports on.
NPM writes an access log per host and counts nothing, so 475 MB of logs held the only answer to
"is anything using this". Aggregated on a schedule and read from a few kB of JSON; the row also
now says whether an auth_request block is in front of the site, which nothing showed before.
Saving a host sent advanced_config as an empty string and reset http2, both HSTS flags, meta,
locations and enabled — so changing a port removed the auth_request block that puts Authelia in
front of the site. Twenty-five of the thirty-five hosts here carry one.
NPM knows what a certificate is today and nothing about what it was, so ten of them could fail
renewal for months — 1001 certbot runs, zero successes — without anything on any page saying so.
Counts start at zero and are only ever observed; only first_seen is seeded, from NPM's own date.
NPM answers a successful DELETE with the bare literal true, which vv_npm_raw() is typed to
return an array from — so deleting or toggling a proxy host has always thrown a TypeError
rather than doing the thing.
Authentik is the likely destination and the page had Authelia and lldap wired in at every
level, so the seam goes in now: the panels and every endpoint action route off one conf value,
and a stack that cannot be driven yet says so rather than drawing controls with nothing behind.
Opening the editor to fix a name and then having to close it to reach a password or a group
was three dialogs for one sitting; the row buttons stay for one-click access from the list.
lldap lets you edit five things about a user and one about a group; the page reached two of
them, so correcting a surname or a group's name still meant opening the container's own WebUI.
The block is rebuilt from the parsed model on every save and the parser discarded comments,
so one press of Save deleted the five ## lines that are the only thing in the file saying
what each rule is for — which inline editing was about to make far easier to press.
Most rules carry thirteen or fourteen domains, which in one table cell was a four-hundred
character run that answered no question at a glance; the group is what you are looking for
and it is now the heading.
Gmer4Lfe