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+import os
+import sys
+from django.views.generic import TemplateView, View
+import datetime
+from pprint import pprint
+import json
+from syndicate.models import *
+from core.models import *
+from hpc.models import ContentProvider
+from operator import attrgetter
+from django import template
+from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
+from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseServerError, HttpResponseForbidden
+from django.core import urlresolvers
+from django.contrib.gis.geoip import GeoIP
+from django.db.models import Q
+from ipware.ip import get_ip
+from operator import itemgetter, attrgetter
+import traceback
+import math
+
+if os.path.exists("/home/smbaker/projects/vicci/cdn/bigquery"):
+    sys.path.append("/home/smbaker/projects/vicci/cdn/bigquery")
+else:
+    sys.path.append("/opt/planetstack/hpc_wizard")
+import hpc_wizard
+from planetstack_analytics import DoPlanetStackAnalytics, PlanetStackAnalytics, RED_LOAD, BLUE_LOAD
+
+def getDashboardContext(user, context={}, tableFormat = False):
+        context = {}
+
+        userSliceData = getSliceInfo(user)
+        if (tableFormat):
+            context['userSliceInfo'] = userSliceTableFormatter(userSliceData)
+        else:
+            context['userSliceInfo'] = userSliceData
+        context['cdnData'] = getCDNOperatorData(wait=False)
+        context['cdnContentProviders'] = getCDNContentProviderData()
+
+        (dashboards, unusedDashboards)= getDashboards(user)
+        unusedDashboards=[x for x in unusedDashboards if x!="Customize"]
+        context['dashboards'] = dashboards
+        context['unusedDashboards'] = unusedDashboards
+
+        return context
+
+def getDashboards(user):
+    dashboards = user.get_dashboards()
+
+    dashboard_names = [d.name for d in dashboards]
+
+    unused_dashboard_names = []
+    for dashboardView in DashboardView.objects.all():
+        if not dashboardView.name in dashboard_names:
+            unused_dashboard_names.append(dashboardView.name)
+
+    return (dashboard_names, unused_dashboard_names)
+
+def getSliceInfo(user):
+    sliceList = Slice.objects.all()
+    slicePrivs = SlicePrivilege.objects.filter(user=user)
+    userSliceInfo = []
+    for entry in slicePrivs:
+
+        slicename = Slice.objects.get(id=entry.slice.id).name
+        slice = Slice.objects.get(name=Slice.objects.get(id=entry.slice.id).name)
+        sliverList=Sliver.objects.all()
+        sites_used = {}
+        for sliver in slice.slivers.all():
+             #sites_used['deploymentSites'] = sliver.node.deployment.name
+             # sites_used[sliver.image.name] = sliver.image.name
+             sites_used[sliver.node.site.name] = sliver.numberCores
+        sliceid = Slice.objects.get(id=entry.slice.id).id
+        try:
+            sliverList = Sliver.objects.filter(slice=entry.slice.id)
+            siteList = {}
+            for x in sliverList:
+               if x.node.site not in siteList:
+                  siteList[x.node.site] = 1
+            slivercount = len(sliverList)
+            sitecount = len(siteList)
+        except:
+            traceback.print_exc()
+            slivercount = 0
+            sitecount = 0
+
+        userSliceInfo.append({'slicename': slicename, 'sliceid':sliceid,
+                              'sitesUsed':sites_used,
+                              'role': SliceRole.objects.get(id=entry.role.id).role,
+                              'slivercount': slivercount,
+                              'sitecount':sitecount})
+
+    return userSliceInfo
+
+def getCDNContentProviderData():
+    cps = []
+    for dm_cp in ContentProvider.objects.all():
+        cp = {"name": dm_cp.name,
+              "account": dm_cp.account}
+        cps.append(cp)
+
+    return cps
+
+def getCDNOperatorData(randomizeData = False, wait=True):
+    HPC_SLICE_NAME = "HyperCache"
+
+    bq = PlanetStackAnalytics()
+
+    rows = bq.get_cached_query_results(bq.compose_cached_query(), wait)
+
+    # wait=False on the first time the Dashboard is opened. This means we might
+    # not have any rows yet. The dashboard code polls every 30 seconds, so it
+    # will eventually pick them up.
+
+    if rows:
+        rows = bq.postprocess_results(rows, filter={"event": "hpc_heartbeat"}, maxi=["cpu"], count=["hostname"], computed=["bytes_sent/elapsed"], groupBy=["Time","site"], maxDeltaTime=80)
+
+        # dictionaryize the statistics rows by site name
+        stats_rows = {}
+        for row in rows:
+            stats_rows[row["site"]] = row
+    else:
+        stats_rows = {}
+
+    slice = Slice.objects.filter(name=HPC_SLICE_NAME)
+    if slice:
+        slice_slivers = list(slice[0].slivers.all())
+    else:
+        slice_slivers = []
+
+    new_rows = {}
+    for site in Site.objects.all():
+        # compute number of slivers allocated in the data model
+        allocated_slivers = 0
+        for sliver in slice_slivers:
+            if sliver.node.site == site:
+                allocated_slivers = allocated_slivers + 1
+
+        stats_row = stats_rows.get(site.name,{})
+
+        max_cpu = stats_row.get("max_avg_cpu", stats_row.get("max_cpu",0))
+        cpu=float(max_cpu)/100.0
+        hotness = max(0.0, ((cpu*RED_LOAD) - BLUE_LOAD)/(RED_LOAD-BLUE_LOAD))
+
+        # format it to what that CDN Operations View is expecting
+        new_row = {"lat": float(site.location.longitude),
+               "long": float(site.location.longitude),
+               "lat": float(site.location.latitude),
+               "health": 0,
+               "numNodes": int(site.nodes.count()),
+               "activeHPCSlivers": int(stats_row.get("count_hostname", 0)),     # measured number of slivers, from bigquery statistics
+               "numHPCSlivers": allocated_slivers,                              # allocated number of slivers, from data model
+               "siteUrl": str(site.site_url),
+               "bandwidth": stats_row.get("sum_computed_bytes_sent_div_elapsed",0),
+               "load": max_cpu,
+               "hot": float(hotness)}
+        new_rows[str(site.name)] = new_row
+
+    # get rid of sites with 0 slivers that overlap other sites with >0 slivers
+    for (k,v) in new_rows.items():
+        bad=False
+        if v["numHPCSlivers"]==0:
+            for v2 in new_rows.values():
+                if (v!=v2) and (v2["numHPCSlivers"]>=0):
+                    d = haversine(v["lat"],v["long"],v2["lat"],v2["long"])
+                    if d<100:
+                         bad=True
+            if bad:
+                del new_rows[k]
+
+    return new_rows
+
+def slice_increase_slivers(user, user_ip, siteList, slice, count, noAct=False):
+    sitesChanged = {}
+
+    # let's compute how many slivers are in use in each node of each site
+    for site in siteList:
+        site.nodeList = list(site.nodes.all())
+        for node in site.nodeList:
+            node.sliverCount = 0
+            for sliver in node.slivers.all():
+                 if sliver.slice.id == slice.id:
+                     node.sliverCount = node.sliverCount + 1
+
+    # Allocate slivers to nodes
+    # for now, assume we want to allocate all slivers from the same site
+    nodes = siteList[0].nodeList
+    while (count>0):
+        # Sort the node list by number of slivers per node, then pick the
+        # node with the least number of slivers.
+        nodes = sorted(nodes, key=attrgetter("sliverCount"))
+        node = nodes[0]
+
+        print "adding sliver at node", node.name, "of site", node.site.name
+
+        if not noAct:
+            sliver = Sliver(name=node.name,
+                        slice=slice,
+                        node=node,
+                        image = Image.objects.all()[0],
+                        creator = User.objects.get(email=user),
+                        deploymentNetwork=node.deployment,
+                        numberCores =1 )
+            sliver.save()
+
+        node.sliverCount = node.sliverCount + 1
+
+        count = count - 1
+
+        sitesChanged[node.site.name] = sitesChanged.get(node.site.name,0) + 1
+
+    return sitesChanged
+
+def slice_decrease_slivers(user, siteList, slice, count, noAct=False):
+    sitesChanged = {}
+    sliverList ={}
+    if siteList:
+        siteNames = [site.name for site in siteList]
+    else:
+        siteNames = None
+
+    for sliver in slice.slivers.all():
+        if(not siteNames) or (sliver.node.site.name in siteNames):
+                node = sliver.node
+                sliverList[sliver.name]=node.name
+
+    for key in sliverList:
+        if count>0:
+            sliver = Sliver.objects.filter(name=key)[0]
+            sliver.delete()
+            print "deleting sliver",sliverList[key],"at node",sliver.node.name
+            count=count-1
+            sitesChanged[sliver.node.site.name] = sitesChanged.get(sliver.node.site.name,0) - 1
+
+    return sitesChanged
+
+def haversine(site_lat, site_lon, lat, lon):
+    d=0
+    if lat and lon and site_lat and site_lon:
+        site_lat = float(site_lat)
+        site_lon = float(site_lon)
+        lat = float(lat)
+        lon = float(lon)
+        R = 6378.1
+        a = math.sin( math.radians((lat - site_lat)/2.0) )**2 + math.cos( math.radians(lat) )*math.cos( math.radians(site_lat) )*(math.sin( math.radians((lon - site_lon)/2.0 ) )**2)
+        c = 2 * math.atan2( math.sqrt(a), math.sqrt(1 - a) )
+        d = R * c
+
+    return d
+
+def userSliceTableFormatter(data):
+    formattedData = {
+                     'rows' : data
+                    }
+    return formattedData