A Deoployment Automation System. See Wiki page at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Compass.

1. Run git clone https://github.com/huawei-cloud/compass
2. Run cd compass to the Compass project directory.
3. Run ./install/install.sh to setup compass environment. Please note that before you execute install.sh, you may setup your environment variables in install/install.conf, explanations and examples of those variables can be found in install.conf.
4. Run source /etc/profile to setup compass profile.
5. Run ./bin/refresh.sh to initialize database.
6. Run service compassd start to start compass daemon services.

• Why doesn't celery start? What should I do if I get celery died but pid file exists message after running service compassd status?

1. Simply remove celery pid file (/var/run/celery.pid).
2. Try running export C_FORCE_ROOT=1
3. Restart Compass daemon.

• How to restart compass service?

1. Run service compassd restart
2. Run service httpd restart to restart web service.

• How to check if the compass services run properly?

1. Run service compassd status to check compass services status.
2. Run service httpd status to check web service status.

• How to troubleshoot if compassd can not start the services?

  1. Try to remove /var/run/celeryd.pid to release the celeryd lock
  2. Try to remove /var/run/progress_update.pid to release the progress_update lock.

• How to use compass to install distributed systems?

Access http://<server_ip>/ods/ods.html. In the current version, we only support OpenStack deployment with a simplified configuration. Follow the simple wizard from the Web UI.

• How to run unittest? COMPASS_SETTING=<your own compass setting> python -m discover -s compass/tests

• Where to find the log file?

  1. /var/log/compass/compass.log is the compass web log.
  2. /var/log/compass/celery.log is the celery log
  3. The redirected celeryd stdout/stderr is at /tmp/celeryd.log.
  4. The redirected progress_update.py stdout/stderr is at /tmp/progress_update.log
  5. The web server (httpd) log files are under /var/log/httpd/.

• Where to find the compass config file?

  1. the compass setting file is at /etc/compass/setting.
  2. the default global config file for installing distributed system is at /etc/compass/setting
  3. the default celery config file is at /etc/compass/celeryconfig

• Where is the default database file? It is at /opt/compass/db/app.db

• Where is the utility scripts for compass? It is at /opt/compass/bin/