Device Hub

DeviceHub is an IT Asset Management System focused on reusing devices, created under the eReuse.org project.

Overview

DeviceHub aims to:

• Provide a common IT Asset Management platform for donors, receivers, and IT professionals.
• Automatically collect, analyze, and share device metadata while ensuring privacy and traceability.
• Integrate with existing IT Asset Management Systems.
• Operate in a decentralized manner.

DeviceHub primarily works with three types of objects:

1. Devices: Including computers, smartphones, and their components.
2. Events: Actions performed on devices (e.g., Repair, Allocate).
3. Accounts: Users who perform events on devices.

Installation

Assuming a host with debian stable

Quickstart

For a quick start with dummy data in localhost, DeviceHub can be run directly with docker. To do so, from the root of the project run:

./docker-reset.sh

Note that everytime you perform the docker-reset.sh script, all data is lost.

Also there is a demo running in http://demo.ereuse.org/. The token for accessing the instance will be always: token=5018dd65-9abd-4a62-8896-80f34ac66150, but the instance will be reset every day at 4 am.

For production needs, review and change .env file properly

Running from baremetal

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10
• pip
• virtualenv

Specially when developing, is quite convenient to run DeviceHub from a virtual environment. To start with this deployment, create a virtual environment to isolate our project dependencies:

python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

System Dependencies

Xapian

Now, install the xapian dependencies (xapian library and python bindings)

sudo apt-get install python3-xapian libxapian-dev

Allow the virtual environment to use system-installed packages:

export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages"

Environment Variables

Now, configure the environment variables. For this, we will expand a .env file. You can use the following content as an example:

STATIC_ROOT=/tmp/static/
MEDIA_ROOT=/tmp/media/
ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost,localhost:8000,127.0.0.1,
DOMAIN=localhost
DEBUG=True

Now, expand the environment variables:

source .env

Migrations

Now, apply migrations

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Also, we can add some dummy data into the database to play along:

python manage.py add_institution Pangea
python manage.py add_user Pangea user@example.org 1234
python manage.py up_snapshots example/snapshots/ user@example.org

Run DeviceHub

Finally, we can run the DeviceHub service by running:

python manage.py runserver

Clean up

To clean up the deployment and start fresh, just delete Django's database:

rm db/*

License

DeviceHub is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.