COSMOS SDD Minutes 12MAY08 Install Work Session

Logistics

• Date: 12MAY08
• Time: 1:30PM EST
• Attendees: Mark McCraw, Merri Jensen, Josh Hester, Jason Losh, Jeff Hamm, Robert DeMason, Chris Sherman, Adrian Dunston, Sheldon Lee-Joy, Hubert Leung, David Whiteman, Charlie Halloran

Agenda

1. COSMOS Install Work Session

Minutes

1. Slides were sent to dev mailing list.
2. COSMOS Review:
   • Management Enablement - set of tools that work with the rest of COSMOS project. SDD fits here.
   • Resource Modelling - SML/CML
   • Data Collection and Normalization
   • Data Reporting
3. Prereqs
   • i10 - BIRT & DOJO not bundled
   • i11 - BIRT & DOJO still not bundled, only package COSMOS web apps and command line utility
4. Download zips
   • bin
     • configDemo.bat/.sh
     • pass 5 parameters
       1. tomcat loc
       2. COSMOS unzip loc
       3. BIRT zip loc
       4. DOJO zip loc
       5. Axis2 war loc
   • start Tomcat
   • point to COSMOS UI
   • administrative command line app to see Data Managers/Brokers.
     • cosmosClient.bat/.sh
5. COSMOS SDD
   • Package descriptor
     • .zip (content)
     • dd.xml (deployment descriptor)
     • metadata.xml (additional content, may move inside zip)
   • Deployment descriptor
     • Topology
       • Resources
         • Zip extractor not a resource
         • Change UnzipLocation to InstallLocation
         • Linux variant - how to specify RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 vs SUSE? (Specified in Profile)
         • Windows XP SP2 (Specified in Profile)
     • Data Reporting package separate download from Demo, all we have right now is Demo
     • Configuration needs to go into separate SDD
     • Add Tomcat as a resource, DOJO/BIRT/JRE/etc as requirements
     • Metadata file generator, how do you create it?