How To Use the Admin Tools

Alfred3_interact comes with some administrative utilities that can be included in alfred3’s admin mode. Currently, you can use the following admin pages:

MatchMakerMonitoring	Admin page for monitoring a MatchMaker's work.
MatchMakerActivation	Admin page for toggling MatchMaker activation.

Note

For more information and examples, please visit the API documentation of the admin pages linked above.

To activate the admin mode, we need to set passwords for all three admin levels in secrets.conf:

# secrets.conf
[general]
adminpass_lvl1 = demo
adminpass_lvl2 = use-better-passwords
adminpass_lvl3 = to-protect-access

How to access the admin mode

You can access the admin mode by adding ?admin=true to the experiment’s start link. If you are running a local experiment, this means that you can use:

http://127.0.0.1:5000/start?admin=true

Note that the question mark only signals the beginning of additional url arguments. If you use multiple url arguments, they are chained via &. For example, the following url would also start the experiment in admin mode:

http://127.0.0.1:5000/start?demo=this&admin=true

When you open the link to the admin mode, you face a page asking you for a password. If you encounter an “Internal Server Error”, you should check the log - you may have forgotten to specify all necessary passwords.

If you enter a correct password, you can move on to the admin pages. Based on your password, you may see only a subset of all possibly available pages. With the level 1 password, you can only see level 1 pages. With the level 2 password, you can see level 1 and level 2 pages. And with the level 3 password, you have full access to pages of all three levels.