[atlas] Automating software probe creation?

Hi Steve,

About your first question, if my memory serves well, I did it exactly that
way a few months back.

I ended up automating probes registration with curl and a trivial shell
script. Let me know if you need assistance.

Happy new year,
Pierre.

On Sat 2 Jan 2021 at 08:26 Steve Gibbard <scg at gibbard.org> wrote:

> I’m working on creating some Raspberry Pi-based software probes, to put in
> some networks that currently lack Atlas probes.
>
> I’d like to have a standard image that can come up and work wherever an
> individual probe lands, instead of needing to configure each one separately.
>
> As far as I can tell from the documentation, it looks like the probes are
> identified by the encryption keys in /var/atlas-probe/etc/probe-key* .  If
> creating new probes from an image, is it sufficient to make each probe
> generate its own encryption keys, or are there other files that need to
> change?
>
> For registering the probes, I see a web form that requires being logged
> into a RIPE account, and don’t see any equivalent in the API
> documentation.  Is there a way to register new software probes via the API?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
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