Deploying a Geoevent server question

[Mike-DM]

Hi all,

I'm brand new to Chef and I have been reading this site and the watching some tutorial videos. I'm in the process of deploying ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9 using chef and cookbooks 3.7.0. I made a Windows 2016 Chef workstation (version 21.6.497) and an Ubuntu Chef Server. All my clients/nodes are Windows 2016. I've been following the guide here.

https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-cookbook/wiki/Automate-a-multi-machine-ArcGIS-Enterprise-deployment-on-Windows-using-Chef-Server

It has gone fairly smoothly, I have Base Enterprise deployed along with a Big Datastore and Geoanalytics server. Now I'm trying to make a Geoevent sever and I notice there isn't a file for Geoevent under "roles". I have the cookbook and templates, but following the guide I mentioned above, each server has had a corresponding "role" JSON file.

Can anyone assist me with how I would deploy a Geoevent server? Do I need to use the template with Chef Zero commands directly on the workstation that will become GeoEvent or will I need to use a template to create a "role" file so I can deploy Geoevent with Chef Workstation?

I also want to mention that when I first tried to deploy Base Enterprise using 3.7.0 cookbooks, I received missing dependency cookbook errors. I had to go into the 3.6.1 cookbooks and get the cookbooks for s3_files, windows, windows_firewall, hostsfile, openssl, nfs,.... etc,.

[cameronkroeker]

Hello @Mike-DM,

You can use the following json files for GeoEvent Server:

https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-cookbook/tree/master/templates/arcgis-geoevent-server/10.9/windows

If using Chef Server, move them to the roles directory. Also may need to modify them a bit for them to work in Chef Server. For example, may need to embed "arcgis": { } in a "default_attributes" { } block.

For example:

{
  "name": "geoevent",
  "description": "ArcGIS GeoEventServer",
  "default_attributes": {
     "arcgis": {
        "version": "10.9",
        "run_as_user": "arcgis",
        "run_as_password": "Pa$$w0rdPa$$w0rd",
        "configure_windows_firewall": true,
        "repository": {
            "archives": "C:\\Software\\Archives",
            "setups": "C:\\Software\\Setups"
        },
        "server": {
            "install_dir": "C:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Server",
            "install_system_requirements": true,
            "admin_username": "siteadmin",
            "admin_password": "change.it",
            "authorization_file": "C:\\Software\\AuthorizationFiles\\10.9\\Server.prvc",
            "log_level": "WARNING",
            "directories_root": "\\\\FILESERVER\\arcgisserver",
            "log_dir": "C:\\arcgisserver\\logs",
            "config_store_type": "FILESYSTEM",
            "config_store_connection_string": "\\\\FILESERVER\\arcgisserver\\config-store",
            "keystore_file" : "C:\\Software\\Certificates\\ssl_cert.pfx",
            "keystore_password" : "change.it"
        },
        "python": {
            "install_dir": "C:\\Python27"
        },
        "geoevent": {
            "authorization_file": "C:\\Software\\AuthorizationFiles\\10.9\\GeoEventServer.prvc"
        }
    }
  },
    "run_list": [
        "recipe[arcgis-enterprise::system]",
        "recipe[arcgis-enterprise::disable_loopback_check]",
        "recipe[arcgis-enterprise::server]",
        "recipe[arcgis-geoevent]"
    ]
}

For the missing dependency issue, did you download and use arcgis-3.7.0-cookbooks.zip the from the following location?

https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-cookbook/releases/tag/v3.7.0

This will contain all necessary cookbooks. Otherwise if downloading the cookbook from https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-cookbook/tree/v3.7.0 it will only contain the Esri Cookbooks and not the third party dependency cookbooks.

Happy Automating, Cameron K.

[Mike-DM]

Hi Cameron,

Thanks a lot for your assistance! I will modify the templates as you suggested and put them in my roles directory for upload to my Chef Server.

You're right, I got the cookbooks from https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-cookbook/tree/v3.7.0 so that explain why I was missing the third party dependency cookbooks. Thanks for pointing me to the other location for the full cookbooks.

Best Regards, Mike

[cameronkroeker]

You're welcome! Since the original question has been addressed I'll go ahead and close this issue. However, feel free to open a new issue if there are further questions/issues that may arise.

Thanks, Cameron