Elluminate Live! (c) is software for virtual online classrooms. It is suitable for meetings, demonstrations web conferences, seminars, general training and support. Elive is a set of Perl bindings and entity definitions for the Elluminate Live! Entity Commands in the Command Toolkit. You can, for example, use it to query or add users, create sessions, assign participants and change server settings. Some manual configuration may be required on your Elluminate Live! server to enable access to SOAP web services. Please see the server configurarion section. COMPATIBILITY The Elive distribution only supports only self hosted Elluminate Live! servers. - works best with ELM (Elluminate Live Manager) version 3.0 - 3.3.5 and Elluminate Live! version 9.5 - 10.0.2 - does not support access to externally hosted servers deployed with SAS (Session Administration System). INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install SERVER CONFIGURATION Prior to Elluminate 9.5, all users with a role of '0' (System Administrator) have been given full access to the SDK. From Elluminate 9.5 onwards, you will need to manually configure SDK access. To do this, firstly stop all Elluminate services. Then you'll need to edit the configuration.xml for the site instance. Under Linux, the configuration can be found under: /opt/ElluminateLive/manager/tomcat/webapps or under Windows: C:/Program Files/ElluminateLive/manager/tomcat/webapps The actual configuration is then in the sub-path: ROOT/WEB-INF/resources/configuration.xml or for any additional sites built with the instance manager: mysite/WEB-INF/resources/configuration.xml Edit the file and add a user entry to the security section: ... ... ... ... TESTING There are additional live tests in t/2?-soap-*.t. By default, these either skipped or run offline. These may be run against a live server by setting up the environment variables, an running tests, as shown below: perl Makefile.PL make export ELIVE_TEST_URL=http://sdk_user@some_server.com/some_test_instance export ELIVE_TEST_PASS=some_password make test In addition, the following envirnoment variable may be set to extend the range of tests: ELIVE_TEST_PRELOAD_SERVER_PATH - absolute path of an existing preload file on the server. Set this to enable testing of the Elive::Entity::Preload::import_from_server() method. ELIVE_TEST_USER_UPDATES - set this to true to enable insert and update of user accounts on a live server (t/26-soap-user.t). ELIVE_TEST_GROUP_UPDATES - set this to true to enable insert and update of groups on a live server (t/27-soap-group.t). The User and Group update tests can only be run on sites that have not been configured for LDAP. WARNING: These tests will both create and delete various entities instances. For this reason you should by wary of running the live tests on production sites. Consider restricting live testing to designated development and test sites, or newly created site instances! POST INSTALLATION The elive_query script can be used to check basic operation of Elive and access to your Elluminate server(s). % elive_query --user admin_user http://myserver/mysite Where admin_user is an Elluminate system administrator account. You will need to enter a password. You should then get: connecting to http://myserver/mysite...done Elive query 0.nn (Elluminate Live 9.x.y) - type 'help' for help elive> You can then try a simple query: elive> select * from users See also elive_raise_meeting. This is a utility script that creates Elluminate meetings. % elive_raise_meeting --user admin_user http://myserver/mysite -name 'Test' TROUBLESHOOTING 'User [], not permitted to access the command {]' -------------------------------------------------------------------- You are connected to the SOAP services with an account that has not been setup for full SDK access. Please see the Server Configuration section above. 'Unable to determine a command for the key Xxxxx' ------------------------------------------------- This may indicate that some of the adapters are missing from your Elluminate configuration. This can be prone to likely to happen with an Elluminate instance that has been through several Elluminate upgrades. You can use the installed script elive_lint_config to check for missing adapters. % cd /opt/ElluminateLive/manager/tomcat/webapps % elive_lint_config WEB-INF/resources/configuration.xml missing adapter command: getUser missing adapter command: deletePreload missing adapter command: listPreloads The adapters can be added to your configuration file. For example, if elive_lint_config returned the error: "missing adapter command: getUser" You'll need to first stop Elluminate services. Save a backup copy of configuration.xml Then you can add an adapter entry can be added to the list of adapters. E.g., to add the getUser adapter: ... ... LDAP AUTHENTICATION Elluminate Live! can also be configured to use an LDAP repository for user authentication. Users and groups can be retrieved or listed, but cannot be updated. * You can map both of the user's userId and loginName to the LDAP uid attribute. * Updates and deletes are not supported by the LDAP DAO adapter. SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION See the Elluminate Live documentation. In particular, this package follows the entities and relationships described in DatabaseSchema.pdf. You will find a copy on the installation disk; or if you have access to the server, you will will typically find this in /opt/Elluminate/documentation. After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Elive You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Elive AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/Elive CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Elive Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Elive/ COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2009-2011 David Warring This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.