Issues installing IDAS on CentOS 7 VM through provided RPMs - fiware

Question

I've been trying to install IDAS GE in a CentOS 7 VM on my machine through the UL2.0 RPMs(download link!) available in its catalogue page.
I followed the instructions on github, but I get stuck in starting the IoT as per section 3 of the Deployment section of the instructions. If I execute the init_iotagent.sh, where I inserted the local IP of the VM, I get the error:
log4cplus:ERROR No appenders could be found for logger (main).
log4cplus:ERROR Please initialize the log4cplus system properly.
HTTPFilter DESTRUCTOR 0
HTTPFilter DESTRUCTOR 0
Also, in the instructions for Starting IoTAgent as a Service, it's said that:
After installing iot-agent-base RPM an init.d script can be found in
this folder /usr/local/iot/init.d .
But this file is not there, leading me to believe that the IoTAgent wasn't installed properly from the RPMs provided.
Also, I can't find log files regarding IoTAgent, only the MongoDB has its log file at /usr/local/iot/mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.6.9/log/mongoc.log.
If anyone could help, it would be apreciated. Also, if more info is needed, please let me know.
Thank you

Answer 1

I recommend you to get the GitHub repository and build the RPMs from the source and then install it in your CentOS. Like is explained in the documentation:
NOTE: I changed the BUILD_TYPE to Release, so I created the Release dir.
GIT_VERSION and GIT_COMMIT are not the latest ones.
git clone https://github.com/telefonicaid/fiware-IoTAgent-Cplusplus.git
cd fiware....
mkdir -p build/Release
cd build/Release
cmake -DGIT_VERSION=20527 -DGIT_COMMIT=217023407f25ed258043cfc00a46b6c05fb0b52c -DMQTT=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../../
make install
make package
The packages will be in pack/Linux/RPM/
rpm -i iot-agent-base-xxxxxxx (xxxxxxx will be the numbers of the build)
rpm -i iot-agent-ul-xxxxxx (xxxxxxx will be the numbers of the build)
Once installed with RPMs the init.d file is in: /usr/local/iot/init.d/iotagent
This is the content of the file:
#!/bin/bash
# Copyright 2015 Telefonica Investigación y Desarrollo, S.A.U
#
# This file is part of fiware-IoTagent-Cplusplus (FI-WARE project).
#
# iotagent Start/Stop iotagent
#
# chkconfig: 2345 99 60
# description: iotagent
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
PARAM=$1
INSTANCE=$2
USERNAME=iotagent
EXECUTABLE=/usr/local/iot/bin/iotagent
CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/iot/config
iotagent_start()
{
local result=0
local instance=${1}
if [[ ! -x ${EXECUTABLE} ]]; then
printf "%s\n" "Fail - missing ${EXECUTABLE} executable"
exit 1
fi
if [[ -z ${instance} ]]; then
list_instances="${CONFIG_PATH}/iotagent_*.conf"
else
list_instances="${CONFIG_PATH}/iotagent_${instance}.conf"
fi
for instance_config in ${list_instances}
do
local NAME
NAME=${instance_config%.conf}
NAME=${NAME#*iotagent_}
source ${instance_config}
local IOTAGENT_PID_FILE="/var/run/iot/iotagent_${NAME}.pid"
printf "Starting iotagent ${NAME}..."
status -p ${IOTAGENT_PID_FILE} ${EXECUTABLE} &> /dev/null
if [[ ${?} -eq 0 ]]; then
printf "%s\n" " Already running, skipping $(success)"
continue
fi
# Load the environment
set -a
source ${instance_config}
# Mandatory parameters
IOTAGENT_OPTS=" ${IS_MANAGER} \
-n ${IOTAGENT_SERVER_NAME} \
-v ${IOTAGENT_LOG_LEVEL} \
-i ${IOTAGENT_SERVER_ADDRESS} \
-p ${IOTAGENT_SERVER_PORT} \
-d ${IOTAGENT_LIBRARY_DIR} \
-c ${IOTAGENT_CONFIG_FILE}"
su ${USERNAME} -c "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\"${IOTAGENT_LIBRARY_DIR}\" \
${EXECUTABLE} ${IOTAGENT_OPTS} & echo \$! > ${IOTAGENT_PID_FILE}" &> /dev/null
sleep 2 # wait some time to leave iotagent start
local PID=$(cat ${IOTAGENT_PID_FILE})
local var_pid=$(ps -ef | grep ${PID} | grep -v grep)
if [[ -z "${var_pid}" ]]; then
printf "%s" "pidfile not found"
printf "%s\n" "$(failure)"
exit 1
else
printf "%s\n" "$(success)"
fi
done
return ${result}
}
iotagent_stop()
{
local result=0
local iotagent_instance=${1}
if [[ -z ${iotagent_instance} ]]; then
list_run_instances="/var/run/iot/iotagent_*.pid"
else
list_run_instances="/var/run/iot/iotagent_${iotagent_instance}.pid"
fi
if [[ $(ls -l ${list_run_instances} 2> /dev/null | wc -l) -eq 0 ]]; then
printf "%s\n" "There aren't any instance of IoTAgent ${iotagent_instance} running $(success)"
return 0
fi
for run_instance in ${list_run_instances}
do
local NAME
NAME=${run_instance%.pid}
NAME=${NAME#*iotagent_}
printf "%s" "Stopping IoTAgent ${NAME}..."
local RUN_PID=$(cat ${run_instance})
kill ${RUN_PID} &> /dev/null
local KILLED_PID=$(ps -ef | grep ${RUN_PID} | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}')
if [[ -z ${KILLED_PID} ]]; then
printf "%s\n" "$(success)"
else
printf "%s\n" "$(failure)"
result=$((${result}+1))
fi
rm -f ${run_instance} &> /dev/null
done
return ${result}
}
iotagent_status()
{
local result=0
local iotagent_instance=${1}
if [[ -z ${iotagent_instance} ]]; then
list_run_instances="/var/run/iot/iotagent_*.pid"
else
list_run_instances="/var/run/iot/iotagent_${iotagent_instance}.pid"
fi
if [[ $(ls -l ${list_run_instances} 2> /dev/null | wc -l) -eq 0 ]]; then
printf "%s\n" "There aren't any instance of IoTAgent ${iotagent_instance} running."
return 1
fi
for run_instance in ${list_run_instances}
do
local NAME
NAME=${run_instance%.pid}
NAME=${NAME#*iotagent_}
printf "%s\n" "IoTAgent ${NAME} status..."
status -p ${run_instance} ${NODE_EXEC}
result=$((${result}+${?}))
done
return ${result}
}
case ${PARAM} in
'start')
iotagent_start ${INSTANCE}
;;
'stop')
iotagent_stop ${INSTANCE}
;;
'restart')
iotagent_stop ${INSTANCE}
iotagent_start ${INSTANCE}
;;
'status')
iotagent_status ${INSTANCE}
;;
esac
And the logs file are in /tmp/ :
IoTAgent-IoTPlatform.log
IoTAgent.log
IoTAgent-Manager.log
Hope this helps you.