[tor-bugs] #4586 [Tor Cloud]: Include Arm in Tor Cloud image

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#4586: Include Arm in Tor Cloud image
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 Reporter:  james21      |          Owner:  runa    
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:          
Component:  Tor Cloud    |        Version:          
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Comment(by atagar):

 > So we can include arm in the new images and update the FAQ with a "How
 do I run arm?"-section.

 Sounds good. Suggesting "sudo -u debian-tor arm" will take care of the
 first couple. If you're using the most recent version then iirc I've fixed
 the exception handling when failing to issue a SAVECONF so that should
 already give a clear message that their permissions are to blame (might
 want to double check that).

 > Does arm display bridge statistics, such as client numbers?

 The most recent version does via a new dialog when the user presses 'c' on
 the second page (connections). It shows client usage by locale as a bar
 graph (pity I didn't take a screenshot...).

 I doubt most users even know this feature exists. ;)

 > We can pull it from deb.tpo, that's not a problem.

 Unfortunately nope...
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3391

 Dererk sounded close to adding it, and said that he'd update that ticket.
 However, it looks like he forgot the later.

 > I found it immensely satisfying to see my node transferring gigabytes of
 data and its current activity.

 Glad you like it! Let me know if there's anything more you'd like from it.

 > While it may not meet all the requirements of #4228, it may adhere to
 the spirit.

 Actually, it does cover everything except the pools idea - from #4228...

 - how many clients are using it

 Stats for the life of the arm process, prepopulated with the last day's
 values via 'GETINFO status/clients-seen', are in the client usage dialog I
 mentioned.

 - which pool the bridge ended up in

 This isn't easily available at the moment. However, a long term project
 for arm is subscribing to distilled display statistics that are too costly
 to fetch ourselves (for instance whois/rdns lookups for all relays). This
 could be expanded to include bridge pool assignments...
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/arm#CircuitDetails

 That said, I won't be getting to this any time soon. It might make a good
 GSoC project.

 Cheers! -Damian

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