[Users] Problem Creating "oVirt Engine"

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richie at HIP" <richiepiovanetti at healthcareinfopartners.com>
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:52:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Problem Creating "oVirt Engine"
> 
> According to prior emails "welcome page is apache, app itself coming from
> jboss.  overt engine (jboss) log will help here".  The I got to
> "/var/log/ovirt-engine" but find only the installation, cleanup and
> configuration logs for oVirt.

As you started a new thread, I cannot know what the problem is.

> Where can I see JBOSS's logs…?

Jboss logs are at /var/log/ovirt-engine, we run our own instance of jboss, so whatever at this directory relates to jboss... see server.log for example.

> I've tried:
> /var/lib/jboss-as (and all the files and directories thereunder)
> /usr/share/jovirt-engine (where I found "engine.congig.defaults" and found
> the "path" to "JBOSS_HOME" as "/usr/share/jboss-as"
> /usr/share/joss-as (where I traversed the whole directory structure and
> looked at all files.  Below some highlights.)
> under "/bin" found "jboss-cli.xml" where "default controller" is set to port
> "9999"
> under "/domain/log" there's nothing
> under "/standalone/log" there's nothing
> under "/standalone/standalone.xml" (where I found a bunch of socket-bindings
> that have nothing to do with ports 8700 or 8701 - I suppose these are Jboss
> "management" ports)
> 
> Where else should I try to look for a JBoss "log" that could tell me why I'm
> not being able to login into any of the oVirt "Portals" (i.e. User,
> Administrator, Reports) other than seeing the main screen where either of
> the prior portals can be selected…?

Please describe the problem, is it a new installation? what version? Have you set up apache as frontend as recommended?
 

> José E ("Richie") Piovanetti, MD, MS
> M: 787-615-4884 | richiepiovanetti at healthcareinfopartners.com
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> On Jul 23, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl at redhat.com> wrote:
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> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Richie at HIP" <richiepiovanetti at healthcareinfopartners.com>
> >> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> >> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 12:09:41 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [Users] Problem Creating "oVirt Engine"
> >> 
> >> Where can I find oVirt engine (jboss) log files in Fedora 18 that you
> >> mention…?
> >> 
> >> On a side note, In case it was a Firewall issue, I tried the Firewall.app
> >> that comes with Fedora 18 and oVirt appears as a "Service" which I
> >> selected
> >> so it is "trusted" under dmx, external,, home, internal, public and work
> >> (hence, anywhere I could find it). I selected "Persistent Configuration" ,
> >> and under "Services", selected oVirt, pressed "Edit Service" and all
> >> possible ports (80, 443, 662, 8700, 8701, 32803, etc.) where listed as
> >> "accessible"; so the firewall should't be the issue - hopefully.
> >> 
> >> Returning to your suggestion, I searched the Fedora 18 linux
> >> file-structure
> >> for "jboss" using the "locate" command and got the listing below this
> >> paragraph. Which file are you mentioning in your suggestion…? Cant find
> >> anything that ends in *log"…!!!
> >> 
> >> Sorry for my ignorance…
> > 
> > Logs are at:
> > /var/log/ovirt-engine
> > 
> > Firewall configuration is handled automatically when running engine-setup.
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