Bug 961294

Summary: JON Agent installed using RPM cannot be silently configured
Product: [JBoss] JBoss Operations Network Reporter: bkramer <bkramer>
Component: AgentAssignee: Stefan Negrea <snegrea>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Armine Hovsepyan <ahovsepy>
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Priority: high    
Version: JON 3.1.2CC: ahovsepy, asantos, mfoley, myarboro, plarsen, snegrea
Target Milestone: ER03Keywords: Reopened
Target Release: JON 3.3.0   
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Last Closed: 2014-09-19 20:31:28 UTC Type: Bug
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Description bkramer 2013-05-09 11:17:39 UTC
Description of problem:
The only way to change agent configuration (RPM installation), as per Installation Guide [1] would be to run config command:

service jon-agent config

which is equivalent to:

rhq-agent.sh --cleanconfig --setup --advanced --daemon --nostart 

and will force interactive setup. However, RPM based agent installation can not be done via kickstart or satellite if interactive configuration is required. We should have something like:
 
service rhq-agent config --silent

where configuration will be done using whatever is specified in the agent.configuration file.

[1] https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Operations_Network/3.1/html/Installation_Guide/changing-rpm-config.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
JON 3.1.2

How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Peter Larsen 2013-05-13 20:16:38 UTC
Without an unattended install option, JON cannot be provisioned as part of a Satellite setup. They impedes customers from using a Red Hat supported provisioning solution. Being able to either manually deploy the configuration file without the need to run a "post config" script, or being able to provide an answer file directly to the "post config" script is important.

Other options should include the ability to specify the user-name or a group name the agent should have access to.

Comment 3 Stefan Negrea 2014-06-20 18:59:06 UTC
A silent flag does not help at all because the agent still needs to be configured to connect to the correct server. When installed via RPM, the agent is not pre-configured to connect back to the server where it was just downloaded because the RPM comes from RHN.

So instead of a flag the user will have to pass the path to a configuration file that will then be used to do a no-prompt configuration of the agent. 

A sample command:

service jon-agent config /path/to/agent/config/agent-configuration.xml


The user can modify the default agent configuration and pass that in to the config command. The default config file is /etc/jboss-on/agent-configuration.xml


The code is now merged in master branch. 

master branch commits:
https://github.com/rhq-project/rhq/commit/dfda660ce6ca1fd84b2cc46c0b91125b65278c76

https://github.com/rhq-project/rhq/commit/e084725a2d39267ebc8813263e9a1e0994197f57

https://github.com/rhq-project/rhq/commit/1334c4334ccb9cac54dc1c90c142a2ebcaf73a02

Comment 5 Simeon Pinder 2014-07-31 15:52:16 UTC
Moving to ON_QA as available to test with brew build of DR01: https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com//buildinfo?buildID=373993

Comment 6 Armine Hovsepyan 2014-08-25 12:36:41 UTC
Created attachment 930451 [details]
agent_rpm_silent_config

Comment 7 Armine Hovsepyan 2014-08-25 12:40:39 UTC
neither config nor status for agent service is working, re-assigned, screen-shot attached

Comment 9 Simeon Pinder 2014-09-03 20:31:48 UTC
Moving to ON_QA as available for test with the following brew build:
https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com//buildinfo?buildID=381194

Comment 10 Armine Hovsepyan 2014-09-10 12:34:25 UTC
Created attachment 936127 [details]
config_not_fount_error

Comment 11 Armine Hovsepyan 2014-09-10 12:35:03 UTC
config not found error is visible, while config full path is provided
re-assigning back

Comment 13 Stefan Negrea 2014-09-19 17:11:32 UTC
This feature works as expected. 

Please refer to the following documentation about RPMs:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Operations_Network/3.1/html/Installation_Guide/agent-rpms.html#differences-btwn-jars

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Operations_Network/3.1/html/Installation_Guide/agent-rpms.html#rpm-users


The important aspect here is that by default the agent runs as a special user/group. In your test case, the config file was not accessible to this specific user. 

There are two ways to correct the test case: 
1) Run the agent under the hudson user. Update the init script with the correct user.

2) Give jbosson-agent user or jbosson group proper access to the configuration file.

Comment 14 Stefan Negrea 2014-09-19 17:12:45 UTC
Switching back to the ER3 for re-testing since there are no further code changes required.

Comment 16 Mike Foley 2014-09-29 14:41:39 UTC
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