Archiver Appliance missing aplliance.properties file

["Sintschuk, Michael via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Dear all,

 

I’m trying to install a recent EPICS Archiver Appliance (Version 2.0.5) using the install script like it is described in the docs:

https://epicsarchiver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sysadmin/installguide.html#using-an-install-script

My system is an OpenSuSe – Leap 15.6 and the archiver installation should be the only one in the cluster / on the machine.

 

The install script, and the deployRelease.sh afterwards, both finish without errors.

However, when I start the archiver appliance via the sampleStartup.sh script, I get the following error in the log files of engine, etl, mgmt and retrieval:

 

2024-10-30 15:50:49,117 FATAL [main] config.DefaultConfigService (DefaultConfigService.java:293) - Exception loading the appliance properties file

 

 

I have an older archiver running version 1.1.0 on another machine. I also used the install script to install it. Looking into the folders:

 

…/engine/webapps/engine/WEB-INF/classes

…/etl/webapps/etl/WEB-INF/classes

…/mgmt/webapps/mgmt/WEB-INF/classes

…/retrieval/webapps/retrieval/WEB-INF/classes

 

I found the five files: appliances.xml; archappl.properties; failover_dest.xml; failover_other.xml and policies.py

By simply copying them into the same locations of my new archiver, it resolved the problem: the new archiver is starting.

 

I don’t remember making these files manually in the old installation.

Why are these files missing in the new installation? Did I forgot to set some settings before running the install script?

 

Best regards

Michael

 

Michael Sintschuk
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