Non-Docker install - how to interpret the errors output by: journalctl -u netmaker

[gravitl]

Non-Docker install - how to interpret the errors output by: journalctl -u netmaker

[bmullan]

@afeiszli

I think I found *part of the problem why I have a dev.yaml and no ENV.yaml.
But in addition it seems like the user: and pass: below overwrite what
I passed as my "user" and "pass" when I installed?

In the Netmaker repo:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gravitl/netmaker/v0.2/netmaker-server.sh

#!/bin/sh
set -e

mkdir -p /etc/netmaker/config/environments
wget -O /etc/netmaker/netmaker https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker/releases/download/latest/netmaker
chmod +x /etc/netmaker/netmaker

cat >/etc/netmaker/config/environments/dev.yaml<<EOL
server:
host:
apiport: "8081"
grpcport: "50051"
masterkey: "secretkey"
allowedorigin: "*"
restbackend: true
agentbackend: true
defaultnetname: "default"
defaultnetrange: "10.10.10.0/24"
createdefault: true
mongoconn:
user: "mongoadmin"
pass: "mongopass"
host: "localhost"
port: "27017"
opts: '/?authSource=admin'
EOL

cat >/etc/systemd/system/netmaker.service<<EOL
[Unit]
Description=Netmaker Server
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure

WorkingDirectory=/etc/netmaker
ExecStart=/etc/netmaker/netmaker

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOL
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start netmaker.service

[afeiszli]

Hi Brian, yes this is another mis-clarification in docs. It specifies "ENV.yaml" as a placeholder for whatever you're calling your env file. It could be dev.yaml or prod.yaml or something else. On startup, netmaker will look for an environment variable $APP_ENV.

If that value is not found, it will use "dev" by default and choose the dev.yaml file.

Based on your output, this does appear to be an authentication issue with mongo so the problem is likely the mongo user:pass.

[bmullan]

@afeiszli
re your comment

Based on your output, this does appear to be an authentication issue with mongo so the problem is likely the mongo user:pass.

You may have missed this in my previous post:

But in addition it seems like the user: and pass: below overwrite what
I passed as my "user" and "pass" when I installed?

In my command I was specifying both "user=admin" and "pass=admin"

but I found those were ignored/overwritten by the above script and was setting user=mongoadmin and pass=mongopass

I'm not sure why my user: and pass: were overwritten

[afeiszli]

Were user/pass overwritten on the server (config for connecting with mongo), or on mongo itself There's nothing written in Netmaker that can write a user/pass to mongodb.