Open-RMBT

Open-RMBT is an open source, multi-threaded bandwidth measurement system.

It consists of the following components:

• Web site
• JavaScript client
• Android client
• iOS client
• Measurement server
• QoS measurement server (in this repository)
• Control server
• Statistics server (in this repository)
• Map server (in this repository)

Open-RMBT is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. It was developed by the Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications (RTR-GmbH).

Related materials

• RMBT specification
• RTR-NetTest/rmbt-server - Test Server for conducting measurements based on the RMBT protocol
• RTR-NetTest/rmbtws - JavaScript client for conducting RMBT-based speed measurements
• RTR-NetTest/open-rmbt-control - Control server
• RTR-NetTest/open-rmbt-ios - iOS app
• RTR-NetTest/open-rmbt-android - Android app
• RTR-NetTest/rtr-nettest/open-rmbt-website - Web site

System requirements

• 1-3 servers

• Everything can be installed on a single server

• The test servers (RMBT and Websocket) should run on a physical machine

• Base system Debian 11 or newer (or similar)

• At least one static IPv4 address (IPv6 support recommended, more addresses allow to run more services on port 443)

  NOTE: other Linux distributions can also be used, but commands and package names may be different

Installation

For each server:

1. Setup IP/DNS/hostname
2. firewall (e.g. iptables)
3. Install git
4. Install and configure sshd
5. Install and configure ntp
6. dpkg-reconfigure locales (database requires en_US.UTF-8)
7. dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
8. Install and configure letsencrypt

Database Server

1. Install:

   • postgresql (version 13 and higher)
   • postgresql-common
   • postgresql-contrib
   • postgis
   • postgresql-13-postgis-3
   • for quantile extension; Install:
     • devscripts
     • sudo
     • postgresql-server-dev-all (or ..-10)
     • pgxnclient
     • Run: pgxn install quantile

2. Run:

   su - postgres
   createuser -lSRD rmbt     # (set db pass)
   createuser -lSRDP rmbt_control     # (set db pass)
   createuser -LSRD rmbt_group_control
   createuser -LSRD rmbt_group_read_only
   echo 'GRANT rmbt_group_read_only TO rmbt_group_control;' | psql
   echo 'GRANT rmbt_group_control TO rmbt_control;' | psql
   createdb -O rmbt rmbt
   
   # (additional users might be needed for replication and nagios)
   
   # if not using postgis 3, set the correct version
   #> sed -i "s/postgis-3/postgis-X\.Y/g rmbt.sql"
   cat rmbt.sql | psql rmbt -1
   cat rmbt_init.sql | psql rmbt -1

   (optional: add additional open databases, eg. Corine)

3. Edit table "test_server"

   You need to add the test server key to the test_server table.

4. Optimise postgres settings

   Check the values of

   • shared_buffers
   • work_mem
   • max_worker_processes
   • max_parallel_workers_per_gather
   • max_parallel_workers

Control-, Map- and StatisticServer

1. Install:

• Apache Tomcat 8 or higher
• nginx (optional, highly recommended)
• openjdk-8-jre (do not use a higher version)
• libservlet3.1-java
• Maxmind GeoLite2 database
• Optional: For StatisticServer pdf export functionality
  • Prince or
  • Weasyprint. For weasyprint, install as user tomcat (not as root):
    • python3
    • python3-pip
    • run pip3 install weasyprint

2. Edit /etc/tomcat8/context.xml (substitute parts with []), add to <Context>:

   For control server:

   <Context>
   <!-- [...] -->
   <Resource 
      name="jdbc/rmbt" 
      auth="Container"
      type="javax.sql.DataSource"
      maxActive="200" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000"
      url="jdbc:postgresql://[db host]/rmbt"
      driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
      username="rmbt_control" password="[db r/w pass]"
      description="DB RW Connection" />
   <Parameter name="RMBT_SECRETKEY" value="[rmbt qos secret key]" override="false" />
   <!-- [...] -->
   </Context>

   For statistic/map servers:

   <Context>
   <!-- [...] -->
   <Resource 
      name="jdbc/rmbtro" 
      auth="Container"
      type="javax.sql.DataSource"
      maxActive="200" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000"
      url="jdbc:postgresql://[db host]/rmbt"
      driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
      username="rmbt" password="[read only pass]"
      description="DB RO Connection" />
   <!-- [...] -->
   </Context>
    

3. Build the servers

   The servers can be built with gradle:

   ./gradlew :RMBTControlServer:war :RMBTMapServer:war :RMBTStatisticServer:war

   The war files are then located in RMBT[Control|Map|Statistic]Server/build/lib.

4. Copy RMBTControlServer.war, RMBTMapServer.war and/or RMBTStatisticServer.war to /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/

   In case the Java-Postgres connector is missing: Add the package libpostgresql-jdbc-java and restart tomcat8.

5. Run service tomcat8 restart

6. Optimize tomcat settings

   Check the values in /etc/default/tomcat8

   • JAVA_OPTS -Xmms MEM -Xmx MEM

Get in Touch

• RTR-Netztest on the web