Addigy lan-cache

The Addigy lan-cache utility categorizes agent’s found on the same local subnet by peer weight. This is evaluated on a few characteristics that help determine which devices should help distribute the package. The agent connections are peered with an MD5 hash (Tells the cache client to check the check the downloaded file’s md5 hash against the md5 hash provided. If it fails, the file will be rejected.

  1. lan-cache Example Commands
  2. Storage
  3. lan-cache weight
  4. Logs
  5. LaunchDaemons
  6. Additional Information

lan-cache Example Commands

Shows all peers on the LAN in json format from the device: /Library/Addigy/lan-cache peers

Start the lan-cache server: /Library/Addigy/lan-cache host

Downloads the file specified by web_url to the local_path: /Library/Addigy/lan-cache download web_url local_path

Set a Device with an elevated weigh tto enforce it as the caching system and restart the lan-cache utility: /Library/Addigy/lan-cache -set-weight-setting -weight=100 && sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.addigy.lan-cache.plist && sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.addigy.lan-cache.plist

Query downloaded files: sqlite3 /Library/Addigy/download-cache/download.db 'select * from downloads;'

Storage

A local sqllite database is deployed on the agents to help manage and track download actions, activities, and peers. /Library/Addigy/download-cache/download.db

lan-cache weight

Add Weight: You can run a command such as lan-cache -set-weight -weight=10.

This will have the device share this number with its peers. Peers will sort by this number in decreasing order to determine in which order to poll its peers when searching for a file. With this setting we should be able to get a group of devices we may want to function as file servers in the network and give it higher weight than all other devices, ensuring that these servers are checked before all others.

PeerProxy: You can run a command such as lan-cache -set-peer-proxy -peer-proxy=true.

This will make the device download and serve a file if it is not in its cache when requested by another peer. This ensures that peers don’t have to look further than this device in order to get the file, even when the file is not currently on the proxy device. This setting ensures that as long as the file servers are available, the peers in the network should not need to look further than these devices, even in cases where the files requested are not caches. This also serves as a way to populate the proxy devices caches.

Logs

Addigy lan-cache logs are located at: /Library/Addigy/logs/cache.log

LaunchDaemons

A LaunchDaemon for the Addigy lan-cache is located at: /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.addigy.lan-cache.plist

Additional Information

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