Provisioning Subscribers¶

Clearwater provides the Ellis web UI for easy provisioning of subscribers. However, sometimes a more programmatic interface is desirable.

Homestead-Prov provides a provisioning API but, for convenience, Clearwater also provides some command-line provisioning tools.

By default, the tools are installed on the Dime nodes only (as part of the clearwater-prov-tools package), in the /usr/share/clearwater/bin directory.

There are 5 tools.

cw-create_user - for creating users
cw-update_user - for updating users’ passwords
cw-delete_user - for deleting users
cw-display_user - for displaying users’ details
cw-list_users - for listing users

Creating users¶

New users can be created with the cw-create_user tool. As well as creating single users, it’s also possible to create multiple users with a single command. Note that this is not recommended for provisioning large numbers of users - for that, bulk provisioning is much quicker.

usage: create_user.py [-h] [-k] [--hsprov IP:PORT] [--plaintext]
                      [--ifc iFC-FILE] [--prefix TWIN_PREFIX]
                      <directory-number>[..<directory-number>] <domain>
                      <password>

Create user

positional arguments:
  <directory-number>[..<directory-number>]
  <domain>
  <password>
The public id will be sip:<directory-number>@domain.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -k, --keep-going      keep going on errors
  --hsprov IP:PORT      IP address and port of homestead-prov
  --plaintext           store password in plaintext
  --ifc iFC-FILE        XML file containing the iFC
  --prefix TWIN_PREFIX  twin-prefix (default: 123)

Update users¶

Existing users can be updated with the cw-update_user tool.

usage: update_user.py [-h] [-k] [-q] [--hsprov IP:PORT] [--plaintext]
                      [--ifc iFC-FILE] [--prefix TWIN_PREFIX]
                      [--password PASSWORD]
                      <directory-number>[..<directory-number>] <domain>

Update user

positional arguments:
  <directory-number>[..<directory-number>]
  <domain>
  <password>

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -k, --keep-going      keep going on errors
  -q, --quiet           don't display the user
  --hsprov IP:PORT      IP address and port of homestead-prov
  --plaintext           store password in plaintext

Delete users¶

Users can be deleted with the cw-delete_user tool.

usage: delete_user.py [-h] [-f] [-q] [--hsprov IP:PORT]
                      <directory-number>[..<directory-number>] <domain>

Delete user

positional arguments:
  <directory-number>[..<directory-number>]
  <domain>

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f, --force           proceed with delete in the face of errors
  -q, --quiet           silence 'forced' error messages
  --hsprov IP:PORT      IP address and port of homestead-prov

Display users¶

Users’ details can be displayed with the cw-display_user tool.

usage: display_user.py [-h] [-k] [-q] [-s] [--hsprov IP:PORT]
                       <directory-number>[..<directory-number>] <domain>

Display user

positional arguments:
  <directory-number>[..<directory-number>]
  <domain>

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -k, --keep-going      keep going on errors
  -q, --quiet           suppress errors when ignoring them
  -s, --short           less verbose display
  --hsprov IP:PORT      IP address and port of homestead-prov

List users¶

All the users provisioned on the system can be listed with the cw-list_users tool.

Note that the --full parameter defaults to off because it greatly decreases the performance of the tool (by more than an order of magnitude).

The --pace parameter’s default values should ensure that this does not use more than 10% of the Dime cluster’s CPU - that is 5 users per second if --force is set and 500 if not. If you set the “–pace” parameter to more than the default, you’ll be prompted to confirm (or specify the --force parameter).

usage: list_users.py [-h] [-k] [--hsprov IP:PORT] [--full] [--pace PACE] [-f]

List users

optional arguments:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit
  -k, --keep-going  keep going on errors
  --hsprov IP:PORT  IP address and port of homestead-prov
  --full            displays full information for each user
  --pace PACE       sets the target number of users to list per second
  -f, --force       forces specified pace