[Hawkular-dev] you can now download a wildfly agent installer from kettle

[Thomas Heute]

In the UI it seems that "WildFly Home" doesn't get filled on my machine
(Chrome, Fedora). It opens a dialog box to select a "Folder to upload" but
it doesn't fill in the input text.

Great to see progress there !

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:09 AM, John Mazzitelli <mazz at redhat.com> wrote:

> Jirka put together a small UI and enhanced the download servlet, which I
> then went in and enhanced further, so you can now get a wildfly agent
> installer.
>
> Here's quickly how it should work:
>
> 1) Go to the UI and fill in the fields, submit it, and you should be able
> to save the installer jar you get back
> 1b) alternatively, you can download it from the command line like this:
>    wget --content-disposition '
> http://localhost:8080/wildfly-agent/download?installer=true
>
> at this point, you have something like
> "hawkular-wildfly-agent-installer-0.13.1.Final.jar" on your file system.
>
> 2) Run the installer jar, pointing it to the wildfly you want to install
> it to:
>
> java -jar hawkular-wildfly-agent-installer-0.13.1.Final.jar
> --wildfly-home=/path/to/your/wildfly/home
>
> This installs the agent to your wildfly server.
>
> That should be it. Run your wildfly and you've got it monitored by the
> agent.
>
> Now, of course, there are lots of ways you can customize the agent
> installation. The above just gets you the default agent with jdoe/password
> credentials assuming http://localhost:8080 is accessible when you install.
>
> Whatever properties that are accepted in the installer .properties file
> (which are also the same cmdline options to the installer) you can pass to
> the download URL so they can be preset for you in the installer's default
> configuration. So, for example, if you want all of your agents to talk to "
> http://your-hawk-server:8080", you can do this to get an installer that
> will install an agent talking to that server:
>
>    wget --content-disposition '
> http://localhost:8080/wildfly-agent/download?installer=true&hawkular-server-url=http://your-hawk-server:8080
> '
>
> There are other properties you can pass in if you want to further
> customize the installer and the agent it installs. Just look at this for
> all that are available:
>
>
> https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-agent/blob/master/hawkular-wildfly-agent-installer/src/main/resources/hawkular-wildfly-agent-installer.properties
>
> In the future, we want to have the installer that you download
> preconfigured (if you want) for the credentials of the user who requested
> the download, and preconfigured for the server that you downloaded the
> installer from (right now, it defaults to "http://localhost:8080" which
> is not optimal). But, again, you can customize this now via installer
> cmdline options if you want:
>
> java -jar hawkular-wildfly-agent-installer-0.13.1.Final.jar \
>     --wildfly-home=/path/to/your/wildfly/home \
>     --hawkular-server-url=http://your-server:8080 \
>     --hawkular-security-key=your-offline-token-key \
>     --hawkular-security-secret=your-offline-token-secret \
>     --subsystem-snippet=/path/to/my/custom/agent-subsystem.xml
>
> That latter one (subsystem-snippet) is a powerful way you can further
> configure the agent by giving a full .xml of the agent subsystem (so you
> can do things like define what resource-type-dmr definitions you want, what
> metrics you want enabled or disabled, etc, etc.)
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