Installation

Prerequisites

These are the requirements to run Grouperfish. For development, see Hacking.

  • A machine running a Unix-style OS (such as Linux).

    Support for windows currently not planned (and probably not easy to add).

    So far, we have been using Red Hat 5.2 and – for development – Mac OS X 10.6+.

  • JRE 6 or higher

  • Python 2.6 or higher (not tested with 3.x)

  • ElasticSearch 0.17.6

The ElasticSearch cluster does not need to be running on the same machines as Grouperfish. For Hadoop/HBase you will need to make sure that the configuration is on your classpath (easiest with a local installation).

Prepare your installation

  • Obtain a grouperfish tarball [1] and unpack it into a directory of your choice.

    > tar xzf grouperfish-0.1.tar
    
    > cd grouperfish-0.1
    
  • Under config, modify the elasticsearch.yml and elasticsearch_hc.yml so that Grouperfish will be able to discover your cluster. Advanced: You can modify the elasticsearch.yml to make each Grouperfish instance run its own ElasticSearch data node. By default, Grouperfish depends on joining an existing cluster though. Refer to the ElasticSearch configuration documentation for details.

  • In the hazelcast.xml, have a look at <network> section. If your network does not support multicast based discovery, make changes as described in the Hazelcast documentation.
[1]right now, the only way is to build it from source. See Hacking.

Launch the daemon

To run grouperfish (currently, no service wrapper is available):

grouperfish-0.1> ./bin/grouperfish -f

Grouperfish will be listening on port 61732 (mnemonic: FISH =  0xF124 = 61732).

You can safely ignore the logback warning (which will only appear with -f given). It is due to an error in logback.

Omit the -f to run grouperfish as a background process, detached from your shell. You can use jps to determine the process id.