stats.html shows no space and node.status db column is NULL

[openseedbox]

stats.html shows no space and node.status db column is NULL

[erindru]

Hmm, I wrote this a long time ago so I cant remember the exact details. Looking at the code, it seems to only include the "active" nodes. Are your nodes set to "active"?

Also with regards to the "status" column, im not sure if its actually used in all circumstances, the getNodeStatus() function queries the node directly from the /status url on each node. Have you tried querying this manually from your web browser and looking at the data returned?

[gregorkistler]

Yep, the node is active and not marked as down. When I try one of the context paths from the routes file like /check or /status i.e. :9001/status I only get 'Invalid API key'.
To simplify the setup the two application server talk directly with each other not via reverse proxy.

[erindru]

The reverse proxy is necessary in order for file downloads to work. The files are served via the webserver and not via Play!, which only has 2 request threads available.

Sorry I forgot about the api key, you need to add it as a parameter to the url, eg /status?api_key=foo
The value of the api_key can be found at backend.base.api_key in the config file of the node

[gregorkistler]

Yes that´s clear that I need to use a reverse proxy for the whole functionality. Only in this case to figure out why there is no status written to the database I use a very basic installation.
/status returns proper values .. but somehow twice

{"data":{"uptime":"07:33:23 up 11:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05","free-space-bytes":12071796736,"used-space-bytes":3646341120,"total-space-bytes":15718137856,"is-backend-installed":true,"base-directory":"/media/openseedbox","is-base-directory-writable":true,"backend-name":"transmission","backend-version":"transmission-daemon 2.82 (14160)","is-backend-running":true,"uptime":"07:33:23 up 11:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05","free-space-bytes":12071796736,"used-space-bytes":3646341120,"total-space-bytes":15718137856,"is-backend-installed":true,"base-directory":"/media/openseedbox","is-base-directory-writable":true,"backend-name":"transmission","backend-version":"transmission-daemon 2.82 (14160)","is-backend-running":true},"success":true}

[gregorkistler]

Finally found the issue. Even if the web service is in place and provides the node status via API the code in Node.java still preferred the status column in the database:

81	public INodeStatus getNodeStatus(boolean fromDb) {
82		if (fromDb) {
83			return status;
84		}

I´ve simply commented out line 83 and now it works.

[gregorkistler]

Nice one 👍
As my quick fix worked but had severe side-effects e.g. while the backend node was down or misconfigured you got an exception calling the /admin/stats page.