I guess the remaining issue with this approach would be any required I18N. Scripts and prop files are pretty much English-only. It would seem a GUI installer would be required at some point to offer I18N.
On 12/5/2012 9:26 AM, John Mazzitelli wrote:
- Why would someone install into an existing AS7? Is there a
benefit?
This is main to support rpm installations. See this wiki page for some more info on the rpm requirement:
https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/RHQ/Deploying+Via+AS7+Extension+Module...
The point is - you should be able to install AS7 via rpm, then you can install RHQ's rpm (in theory, the RHQ rpm would install AS7 rpm as a dependency). Our install scripts are now such that with little tweaking, we should be able to get RHQ rpms working in the future. That's the real reason behind this.
Would a non-dedicated RHQ server be recommended?
We always recommend/require that RHQ be installed in its own AS server instance.
- A simple install requires only a few settings:
Minimally, if the user really has to edit the properties file, those few settings should be grouped together at the top and well documented in the file. We may want different sections for different DB vendors, with all the typical presets (maybe it's like this already, I haven't looked).
We can look into reorganizing that file with better comments.
But I'd rather see interactive command line scripts that walk users through simple installs, perhaps one for new server and one for upgrade. Scripts that perform the various helpful things that the GUI used to do.
This was proposed here:
https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/RHQ/Deploying+Via+AS7+Extension+Module...
but for now, it was decided that building out a full blown, console-based user interface for the installer that does much of what the old GUI insatller did was too much work for now. We can look into this in the future. If we were to do this, we'd have to ensure it supported i18n, too. _______________________________________________ rhq-users mailing list rhq-users@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/rhq-users