Red Hat JBoss Data Grid on AWS

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Amazon EC2 installation guide

1. Overview

This guide will provide step by step instructions on how to start using the installed products on your AWS EC2 instance.

This AMI contains a ready-to-use Red Hat JBoss Data Grid image at the selected version. In order to use this image, you need to launch it with your selected instance type, and log in via SSH to activate it.

Visit the Red Hat JBoss Data Grid page on the AWS Marketplace

Launch from AWS

2. Launching an instance

In order to launch Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, a few settings need to be configured on the AWS console as follows. The instructions for launching an instance differ depending on where you launch it from. Initially you will launch the instance from the AWS Marketplace:

  • Select the product based on your requirements in the AWS Marketplace;

  • Click on the link to go to the versions page in AWS Marketplace;

  • Check the ‘Other Versions ‘ link to see other versions available (you can select the actual version later);

  • Under ‘Pricing Details‘ panel select your Region and either Hourly or Yearly fees;

  • Click on the ‘Continue‘ button to go to the ‘1-Click Launch‘ tab on the configuration page;

  • On the ‘Software Pricing‘ panel choose your instance type and pricing type;

  • On the ‘Version‘ panel, select the fix pack version you require;

  • On the ‘Region‘ panel, select the Region you require;

  • On the ‘EC2 Instance Type‘ panel, choose the instance type. The m1.medium type or larger is recommended when running Red Hat JBoss Data Grid. m1.small is the minimal requirement. Larger instances may be required based on the expected resource use of each;

  • On the ‘VPC Settings‘ panel configure the VPC settings to your requirements or leave the defaults;

  • On the ‘Security Group‘ panel, specify the security group. The security group needs to permit to following ports (note that the internal firewall will be configured later to permit only ports used by JBoss Data Grid):

    Port 22 to connect via SSH (enabled by default)

    • If you don’t already have a security group as above, go to your EC2 Control Panel and select ‘Security Groups‘ under ‘Network & Security‘
    • Click ‘Create Security Group‘ button
    • To open all ports, Click ‘Add Rule‘
    • In the ‘Type‘ dropdown, specify ‘All TCP‘ or your preferred configuration
    • In the ‘Source‘ dropdown, specify ‘Anywhere‘ or your preferred configuration

  • On the ‘Key Pair‘ panel, select a key pair to use. You will need this key later to connect to the instance;

  • Scroll back to the top of the page and click ‘Accept Software Terms and Launch with 1-Click‘;

  • The Instance will be launched.

  1. Select the AMI based on your requirements;

  2. Right click on the AMI, or from the drop down menu, choose the ‘Launch’ option;

  3. On the ‘Choose Instance Type‘ tab, choose the instance type. An m1.medium type or larger is recommended when running Red Hat JBoss Data Grid. m1.small is the minimal requirement. Larger instances may be required based on the number of the expected resource use of each. Click ‘Next: Configure Instance Details‘;

  4. On the ‘Configure Instance‘ tab configure the instance to your requirements or leave the defaults. Click ‘Next: Add Storage‘;

  5. On the ‘Add Storage‘ tab, add additional storage as required or leave as default. Click ‘Next: Tag Instance‘;

  6. On the ‘Tag Instance‘ tab, tag your instance with a suitable name. Click ‘Next: Configure Security Group';

  7. On the ‘Configure Security Group‘ tab, specify the security group. The security group needs to permit to following ports:

    Port 22 to connect via SSH (enabled by default)

    • To open all ports, click ‘Add Rule‘
    • In the ‘Type‘ dropdown, specify ‘All TCP‘ or your preferred configuration
    • In the ‘Source‘ dropdown, specify ‘Anywhere‘ or your preferred configuration

  8. Click ‘Review and Launch‘;

  9. Review settings, then click ‘Launch‘;

  10. Add your key pair, check the ‘Acknowledge key file access‘ checkbox and click ‘Launch Instance‘.

 3. Initial login and setup

The Red Hat JBoss Data Grid is shipped with a base binary installation. On the first login to the instance, after logging onto the instance via SSH as the ‘ec2-user’ user, you will see basic information about the Red Hat JBoss Data Grid installation. The following is an overview of the steps you need to log in to the instance:

Once the instance has started up (you can see it by having ” 2/2 checks passed ” in EC2 console):

  1. Log onto the instance from the EC2 console or via SSH as the ‘ec2-user’ user, using the key you selected above. For example:

    • From the EC2 console by clicking  the “Connect to your instance” button with username “ec2-user“, using the previously (instance launch-time) selected .pem keyfile.

    • Via SSH from your desktop, for example:

      ssh -i ./MidVisionUSMC.pem ec2-user@ec2-52-87-198-23.compute-1.amazonaws.com

  2. You should see the MidVision banner with some Red Hat JBoss Data Grid installation information:

Welcome to
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| \/ (_) __| \ \ / (_)___(_) ___ _ __ / ___| | ___ _ _ __| |
| |\/| | |/ _` |\ \ / /| / __| |/ _ \| ’_ \ _____| | | |/ _ \| | | |/ _` |
| | | | | (_| | \ V / | \__ \ | (_) | | | |_____| |___| | (_) | |_| | (_| |
|_| |_|_|\__,_| \_/ |_|___/_|\___/|_| |_| \____|_|\___/ \__,_|\__,_|

                                              	 A MidVision Service  

    \* WebSite: https://www.midvisioncloud.com/product-category/amazon-web-services-marketplace  
    \* Support: http://support.midvision.com/redmine/projects/devtestcloud  
    \* Forum:   https://www.midvisioncloud.com/community

Welcome, this is the MidVisionCloud JBoss Data Grid image.

The Red Hat JBoss Data Grid library installation folder is /opt/jboss-datagrid-7.3.0-library
The JBoss Data Grid Maven repository installation folder is /opt/jboss-datagrid-7.3.0-library/projects/maven-repositories/jboss-datagrid-7.3.0-maven-repository

4. Maintaining the installation

The following sections cover some of the information you might want to know after the instance has been started.

Instance users

  • root: This is the superuser in Linux systems. You can log in as any other user without using passwords: e.g: “su ec2-user“.
  • ec2-user: This user does not have SUDO rights. If you want to switch back to root user, type “exit“, this will take you back to the previous user session.

Installation paths

You can find Red Hat JBoss Data Grid library installation under the following folder:

/opt/jboss-datagrid-7.3.0-library

You can find Red Hat JBoss Data Grid Maven repository installation under the following folder:

/opt/jboss-datagrid-7.3.0-library/projects/maven-repositories/jboss-datagrid-7.3.0-maven-repository

5. Troubleshooting

5.1 Session loss during setup

If you lose your SSH connection to the target instance during the first run setup script execution (e.g. as a result of a network problem), we advise you to delete and recreate the EC2 instance again.

5.2 Contacting MidVision support

Please visit our support website.