Re: [Hawkular-dev] Installer

From: "John Mazzitelli" <mazz(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Discussions around Hawkular development" <hawkular-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 12:06:08 PM Subject: Re: [Hawkular-dev] Installer > For the server, I think it would be extremely helpful to have a dedicated > property file for all the typical configuration. By typical, I mean, the IP > to the cassandra cluster, the IP to the Keycloak server, enable/disable the > internal agent with username/password... > Does anyone know how we can keep the configuration.xml files but point to > properties in a different file ? I think it would be extremely helpful for > a > user and an installer to just have to edit a simpe and documented property > file rather than messing around with the standalone.xml file that change > over time. This is actually how RHQ started out. We have one single rhq-server.properties file with ALL the custom configuration settings in there. You start the server by passing in "-P rhq-server.properties". Of course RHQ has a custom "rhq-server.sh" that called standalone.sh with that parameter passed in :) But I agree it would be nice to have a single .properties file with everything in there. It's a one-stop-shop where the user only has to remember one file to edit to configure the server. Just have to remember to pass it in via -P. We could edit standalone.conf during the build phase so it passes that -P in by default.