So, what I think we need, is for someone who has some idea of how to
proceed to fill out the jira with either a list or actual tasks, that
someone else could follow to accomplish this.




On January 13, 2020 at 19:08:20, Michael Miklavcic (
michael.miklav...@gmail.com) wrote:

Yes, understood. We do not provide a mechanism for cleaning individual
records from the DB file. Just a thought, but a workaround could be to
download the latest file from maxmind and simply delete the old file.
That's not ideal, but it might be something that could still be automated
depending on the maxmind implementation. Definitely open to other options,
but I wanted to at least come to the table with a simple workable option.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 4:36 PM Justin Leet <justinjl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> To clarify a bit, on Otto's comment
>
> > I have not read the new license, but the idea I believe is yes,
whomever
> > downloads and accepts the new license is then responsible for adherence
> to
> > the applicable law,
> > Which is why the Apache Foundation cannot be that entity I would think
>
>
> My concern is less the legal concern about anything regarding Metron or
> ASF, I 100% agree the ASF isn't responsible for users fulfilling their
> legal obligations. My concern there about the practical ability of users
to
> even be able to do the sort of recalculation necessary to properly act on
> such a requirement. The minimum is probably to call out they need to
clean
> it up, but that may cause a lot of friction for our users.
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:52 PM Michael Miklavcic <
> michael.miklav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > +1 to Apache Legal advice
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 3:30 PM Otto Fowler <ottobackwa...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Justin,
> > >
> > > I have not read the new license, but the idea I believe is yes,
> whomever
> > > downloads and accepts the new license is then responsible for
adherence
> > to
> > > the applicable law,
> > > Which is why the Apache Foundation cannot be that entity I would
think.
> > >
> > > We may want to send this past Apache Legal?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On January 13, 2020 at 17:22:21, Justin Leet (justinjl...@gmail.com)
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > On the whole, I agree. I think the immediate focus should be to rip
out
> > > maxmind from default usage in master, even if it's done a bit
roughly.
> > > Getting master at least building for people would probably be a good
> > first
> > > step.
> > >
> > > Couple further thoughts
> > >
> > > - JUnit 5 supports a variety of conditional testing conditions. It
> might
> > > be possible to do "Test is enabled if property
> > > maxmind.geo.database.location is set", and just provide instructions
to
> > > users on actually doing it instead of having to manually
enable/disable
> > the
> > > test via code.
> > > - Remove DB download/install from Ambari. I agree with removing the
> > > actual dl/load, but still keeping the default location setup.
> > > - I'm inclined to think it should be removed from the default demo
> > > enrichments. We might be able to replace the GEO_GET with some dummy
> > > stellar and just produce similar outputs, since our demo data has a
> > limited
> > > set of IPs, iirc. Obviously, we'd want to document that fairly well
and
> > > also let users manually set it up for non-demo data.
> > > - CLI tool should be fine for letting users load, it's more or less
why
> > > it existed in the first place. Maybe we also add a check if someone
> tries
> > > using the old URL and let them know.
> > > - We need to document that these changes occurred for CCPA reasons,
so
> > > that users can evaluate the consequences.
> > > - Given that I am not even slightly a lawyer, my understanding here
is
> > > likely wrong, but are there further implications here? Say a user
runs
> a
> > > bunch of data through Metron (both enrichments and profiler) using
> these
> > > IPs. A subset of those IPs is removed as it shouldn't be used. Would
a
> > user
> > > then have to remove all data derived from these IPs (e.g. anything in
> > > ES/Solr, anything in HDFS, any profiles using the data?). If they do
> have
> > > to remove it, I assume that's not directly out problem (since they
have
> > to
> > > do cleanup), but we're probably not making it easy on them in terms
of
> > > providing the ability to clean up that sort of information and rerun
> > > profiles and such.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:20 PM Otto Fowler <ottobackwa...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I agree with all of that, my only thinking on contrib is, if that
> > > component
> > > > is not tested and has no coverage, and needs manual steps, then we
> may
> > > want
> > > > to separate it.
> > > > We would have to have some handle on full dev as well right?
> > > >
> > > > On January 13, 2020 at 16:57:13, Michael Miklavcic (
> > > > michael.miklav...@gmail.com) wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hey Otto,
> > > >
> > > > As I mentioned above, we have had this issue with other components
> > > before,
> > > > e.g. mysql. I don't see a compelling reason to discontinue or push
> this
> > > > component to contrib just yet - it's a type of enrichment that
> happens
> > to
> > > > require an additional manual step. Per the article (
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/
> > > > ),
> > > >
> > > > Maxmind is not requiring purchase, merely a user to register due to
> > GDPR
> > > > and CCPA requirements. That being said, it does cause issues for
the
> > > > integration tests. I think we should minimally add an @Ignore
> > annotation
> > > to
> > > > the testLoadGeoIpDatabase test in MaxmindDbEnrichmentLoaderTest and
> > > > provide manual instructions for running the integration test
if/when
> > > > someone submits a PR affecting this code.
> > > >
> > > > Users can still use the geolite DB by uploading it to HDFS.
> > > (Incidentally,
> > > > this even provides a crude mechanism for versioning, should a user
> > choose
> > > > to use the config path that way). We separated the deployment side
of
> > the
> > > > geolite DB from the consumption side
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
https://github.com/apache/metron/blob/master/metron-platform/metron-enrichment/metron-enrichment-common/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/enrichment/adapters/maxmind/geo/GeoLiteCityDatabase.java#L135
> > > > .
> > > >
> > > > All that needs to happen is the user would drop the file in HDFS.
> This
> > > had
> > > > previously happened via Ambari - see here -
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
https://github.com/apache/metron/blob/master/metron-deployment/packaging/ambari/metron-mpack/src/main/resources/common-services/METRON/CURRENT/package/scripts/enrichment_commands.py#L95
> > > > .
> > > >
> > > > We should probably do a couple things:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Minimally, remove the DB download and install from Ambari - we
> might
> > > > choose to keep around the HDFS path creation so that we have a
> > reasonable
> > > > default prepped and ready.
> > > > 2. Add documentation to manually install the geolite DB (register
> with
> > > > maxmind) OR remove it from our default demo enrichments shipped
with
> > the
> > > > platform.
> > > >
> > > > Manual DB file loading would be managed using the CLI tool. You
> should
> > be
> > > > able to load it via local file URL (
> > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme) or via a custom
> hosted
> > > > solution via the --geo_url option. See more details here -
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
https://github.com/apache/metron/tree/master/metron-platform/metron-data-management#geolite2-loader
> > > >
> > > > Anything else I'm missing? Probably worth some feedback from Justin
> > Leet
> > > on
> > > > this as well.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Mike
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 1:59 PM Otto Fowler <ottobackwa...@gmail.com
> >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Tom, that is true, and I think that is the only viable
approach.
> > We
> > > do
> > > > > however use the database for testing during build, and we do
> however
> > > > setup
> > > > > the components that use the data base in the ’sample’ flow with
the
> > > > > simulated sensors for our vagrant deploy… and our contrib/docker
> > deploy
> > > > > etc.
> > > > >
> > > > > So, having the user download their own properly licensed version
(
> > and
> > > > > having the user responsible for the privacy law issues ) is fine,
> > but I
> > > > > think we need to talk through all the ways we are going to change
> the
> > > > > build, what it means for testing that component ( does it move to
> > > contrib
> > > > ?
> > > > > ), and the default deployment to vagrant/topology.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On January 13, 2020 at 13:41:01, Yerex, Tom (tom.ye...@ubc.ca)
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Otto,
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you for raising this in the discussion.
> > > > >
> > > > > It seems to me that Maxmind is proactive about providing
> instructions
> > > and
> > > > > code to deliver updates to the local system. I can recall being
> > > surprised
> > > > > that the current Metron solution seemed to do more than I
expected,
> > > i.e.,
> > > > I
> > > > > thought I would need to get Maxmind files into the local file
> system
> > > > where
> > > > > Metron would pick those up and load them into HDFS and instead
> Metron
> > > did
> > > > > it all.
> > > > >
> > > > > Perhaps the approach to simplify Metron and have it load files
from
> > the
> > > > > local file system into HDFS, how you get the files to the local
> file
> > > > system
> > > > > is up to you?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 2020-01-13, 3:52 AM, "Otto Fowler" <ottobackwa...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON–2340
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/
> > > > >
> > > > > Maxmind has changed the way the distribute and license the
geolite2
> > > > > database that we use in our builds and distribution.
> > > > >
> > > > > Master build is broken, and users are having issues setting up
> > metron (
> > > > > https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/CB7Q6AN3T/p1578556024012200)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > We need to fix the build and figure out how we are going to move
on
> > > from
> > > > > this.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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