ACE2 is comprised of the Core and the Alert Management System. The AMS provides a web interface for analysts to interact with the alerts.
Your local system will need an entry in the hosts file to properly work with the AMS development environment.
For Mac/Linux, this file is located at /etc/hosts.
In Windows, this file is located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. You will need to open Notepad or another text editor as an Administrator in order to edit the hosts file.
Add the following entry to the file:
127.0.0.1 ace2-ams
With your host file updated, you can use the helper script to reset and build the local AMS development environment that includes hot-reloading for both the frontend and backend:
bin/reset-dev-container.sh
After the containers are built and running, you can access the components using the following URLs:
- Frontend: http://ace2-ams:8080
- Backend API Swagger documentation: http://localhost:7777/docs
- Backend API ReDoc documentation: http://localhost:7777/redoc
For a more in-depth understanding of the philosophy behind ACE, see the talk that John Davison gave on the development of the ACE tool set at BSides Cincinnati in 2015.
