Vip-Sentinel
vip-sentinel lives on krypton (192.168.40.60) vip-sentinel is a guard layer between VIP's Microsoft Bookings calandar and vip's pixel streaming service. vip-sentinel is a backend that maintanins a database of VIP bookings. When a student makes a booking with micosoft bookings, a http request is sent to vip-sentinel via powerautomate and updates the vip-sentinel database accordingly. When students authenticate into the VIP pixel-streaming app, the app sends a request to the vip-sentinel server to check if the authenticated student has a booked session. If they do, the student is allowed to use VIP as usual. If not, the student is redirected to the booking page.
vip-sentinel also provides a dashboard for real time monitoring of vip usage analytics, session history, and game instance health monitoring.
Vip-sentinel service
Vip-sentinel can be deployed / restarted etc with sudo systemctl <start/stop/restart> vip-sentinel on krypton (192.168.40.60)
vip-sentinel has environment variables which enable/disable its enforcement of bookings.
You can change its enforcement protocol through sudo nano /etc/vip-sentinel.env on krypton (192.168.40.60) by switching GUARD_MODE= to enforce to enforce bookings, or open to ignore bookings (anyone with an isn email can acess at any time). Change the enviornment variable, save and then use sudo systemctl restart vip-sentinel for the new protocol to take effect.
Super users
vip-sentinel also has a list of superusers who can use the app without a booking. To view or update the list, use sudo nano /opt/vip-guard/app/main.py on krypton and edit the list SUPERUSER_EMAILS. Save and then redeploy with sudo systemctl restart vip-sentinel for changes to take effect.