Licor Sync

• Syncs data from Licor 7200 and 7500 devices to a linux server using rsync
• Automatically tar.gz the data by day
• Sends Email alerts if data is not syncing

Requirements

• rsync
• Perl
  • YAML
  • MIME-Lite
  • String-Util
  • Email::MessageID
  • File::Find::Rule
  • FindBin

Installation

• Download the latest tag released from https://github.com/IGBIllinois/licor_sync/releases or git clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/IGBIllinois/licor_sync.git

• Install Perl Modules using cpanm

cpanm --installdeps .

• Install Perl Modules with yum/dnf

dnf -y install perl-YAML perl-MIME-Lite perl-String-Util perl-Email-MessageID perl-File-Find-Rule perl-FindBin

• If installing on Rocky Linux 8 or 9, the ssh cipher settings need changing. Create the file ~/.ssh/config with the following. Change HOSTNAME to the IP address of the licor device

Host HOSTNAME
        KexAlgorithms +diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
        Ciphers +aes128-cbc
        HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
        PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-rsa
        RSAMinSize 1024
        SetEnv TERM=vt100

• Change the SSH Cipher settings to LEGACY

update-crypto-policies --set LEGACY

Configuration

How to setup config files is at docs/config.md

• On linux server, create ssh keys to login to the licor devices without a password

ssh-copy-id licor@192.168.0.100

Setup Cron

• An example cron file is at etc/cron.dist. Copy etc/cron.dist to etc/cron

cp etc/cron.dist etc/cron

• Edit etc/cron to suit the times you want the data to sync and be compressed.
• Create symlink of etc/cron to /etc/cron.d/licorsync
• Below are the list of scripts that can be added to cron
• device_sync.pl - Rsyncs data from licor devices to local directory
• daily_sort.pl - Script to archive licor data from the previous day
• daily_sort_batch.pl - Script to archive licor data older than a day
• fileserver_sync.pl - syncs data from the local folders to the file-server
• remote_delete.pl - Script to remotely delete data older than 6 months from licor devices