Having Problems Working With Quick Dev Platform?

[Nick Allen <ni...@nickallen.org>]

Metron has a lot of moving parts.  Getting all of these components running
on a single node, especially a virtualized one, is quite painful.  If you
have spun-up Metron, but find that many of the components crash while you
are trying to work, here are some tips to help.

First off, you can use Monit to determine what services are running.
Navigate to http://node1:2812 and login with admin/monit.  You can also do
the same from the command line by executing the following.

monit summary

Once you know what's running, here are steps to take to stop components
that you don't need running.

(1) Shut down all of the unnecessary sensors and topologies.

monit stop all

Then to start only the components that are required to consume 'yaf' data,
for example, run the following.

monit -g yaf start

(2) Prior to a deployment, update the configuration to start only the
desired components.

If working with Quick Dev Platform, edit
`metron-deployment/inventory/full-dev-platform/group_vars/all` and edit the
`services_to_start` parameter.  For example, you could choose to start only
these services.

services_to_start:
  - mysql
  - elasticsearch
  - pcap-service
  - metron-ui

In the near future, I'd like to make it so that a minimal set of services
are started for the Quick Dev and Full Dev Platforms to make this less
painful.

-- 
Nick Allen <ni...@nickallen.org>

Re: Having Problems Working With Quick Dev Platform?

[James Sirota <js...@apache.org>]

Thanks for the article Nick.  Just made a Wiki entry out of it

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=63407751



31.05.2016, 07:40, "Nick Allen" <ni...@nickallen.org>:
> Metron has a lot of moving parts. Getting all of these components running on a single node, especially a virtualized one, is quite painful. If you have spun-up Metron, but find that many of the components crash while you are trying to work, here are some tips to help.
>
> First off, you can use Monit to determine what services are running. Navigate to http://node1:2812 and login with admin/monit. You can also do the same from the command line by executing the following.
>
> monit summary
>
> Once you know what's running, here are steps to take to stop components that you don't need running.
>
> (1) Shut down all of the unnecessary sensors and topologies.
>
> monit stop all
>
> Then to start only the components that are required to consume 'yaf' data, for example, run the following.
>
> monit -g yaf start
>
> (2) Prior to a deployment, update the configuration to start only the desired components.
>
> If working with Quick Dev Platform, edit `metron-deployment/inventory/full-dev-platform/group_vars/all` and edit the `services_to_start` parameter. For example, you could choose to start only these services.
>
> services_to_start:
>  - mysql
>  - elasticsearch
>  - pcap-service
>  - metron-ui
>
> In the near future, I'd like to make it so that a minimal set of services are started for the Quick Dev and Full Dev Platforms to make this less painful.
>
> --
> Nick Allen <ni...@nickallen.org>

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Thank you,

James Sirota
PPMC- Apache Metron (Incubating)
jsirota AT apache DOT org