RE: [opennms-install] Web Console Login

[Edwin B. <eb...@ab...>]

Tarus, et al,

Considering the "popularity" of this request, it's now in the FAQ.  

Edwin

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 10:30, Sreedharan, Anil wrote:
> This was answered previously by Tarus , I shall requote him
> 
> ***************************Reply by tarus on similar request earlier********************
> 
> On the install list this seems to be a popular topic, so here's the huge
> post on this problem.
> 
> Okay, OpenNMS and Tomcat are separate programs, each with its own Java
> virtual machine. The basic opennms package contains all the good
> monitoring stuff, and the webapp package contains the web UI stuff.
> 
> We used to provide our own Tomcat RPM, but we are trying to move to using
> the default RPM. Thus certain changes need to be made.
> 
> It is always a good idea to install the Tomcat webapps package, so that
> when you go to http://onmshost:8080 you get the default Tomcat screen.
> Before doing anything else, get that working. Sometimes (rarely) Tomcat
> will install itself on a different port (usually only if something is
> already running on 8080). So get Tomcat working outside of OpenNMS.
> 
> When OpenNMS is installed and install.pl is run, it should do a number of
> things to the Tomcat install.
> 
> 1) Update $TOMCAT4_HOME/conf/server.xml to include the OpenNMS realm. Make
> sure that the following is in that file:
> 
>         <Context path="/opennms" docBase="opennms" debug="0"
> reloadable="true">
>          <Logger className="org.opennms.web.log.Log4JLogger"
> homeDir="/opt/OpenNMS"/>
>          <Realm
> className="org.opennms.web.authenticate.OpenNMSTomcatRealm"
> homeDir="/opt/OpenNMS"/>
>         </Context>
> 
>       </Host>
> 
>     </Engine>
> 
>   </Service>
> 
> What this does is point Tomcat to the Java classes that does the
> authentication. If this isn't there, nuttin' gonna happen.
> 
> We have seen issues where the first time install.pl is run this file does
> not get updated, so you may need to run it  again:
> 
> $OPENNMS_HOME/bin/install.pl -q $OPENNMS_HOME/etc/create.sql
> 
> 2) There need to be some logical links in $TOMCAT4_HOME/server/lib:
> 
>  castor-0.9.3.9.jar -> /opt/OpenNMS/lib/castor-0.9.3.9.jar
>  log4j.jar -> /opt/OpenNMS/lib/log4j.jar
> 
>  opennms_common.jar -> /opt/OpenNMS/lib/opennms_common.jar
>  opennms_core.jar -> /opt/OpenNMS/lib/opennms_core.jar
>  opennms_services.jar -> /opt/OpenNMS/lib/opennms_services.jar
>  opennms_web.jar -> /opt/OpenNMS/lib/opennms_web.jar
> c;
> 3) Under $TOMCAT4_HOME/webapps there should be an "opennms" directory.
> 
> 4) You may also need to edit /etc/tomcat4/tomcat4/conf and set JAVA_HOME
> and the tomcat4 user to "root". If you can give tomcat4 read/write access
> to /opt/OpenNMS/etc, you can run it as another user.
> 
> That's it, really.
> 
> -T
> 
> -- 
> Tarus Balog
> Consultant
> Sortova Consulting Group, http://www.sortova.com
> +1-919-696-7625
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig La Vallee [mailto:cla...@ne...] 
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:51 AM
> To: in...@op...
> Subject: [opennms-install] Web Console Login
> 
> I installed opennms from the web = when opening my browser
> http://127.0.0.1:8080/opennms I receive a login window and use
> admin/admin but can not login. what username and login should i be
> using? can i change the login?
> 
> thanks
> craig
> 
> 
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