CAS-Management 6.5.5 and custom management.properties file location

[Nathan Lewan]

hello!

So i'm coming off a successful deployment of 6.1 of  cas and cas-management, and trying similar deployment practices with the 6.5 branches. I've run into some things I wanted to mention to see if i'm just doing it wrong.

I can't leave well enough alone and like to have the cas.properties, and management.properties files in custom locations, along with services, and users.json, etc. I've had great success with using the SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON environment variable to define cas.standalone.configurationDirectory, which tells cas and cas-management where to look for certain config files.

CAS 6.5.5 is working beautifully with this, but CAS-Management 6.5.5 is choking. 

Despite the catalina.out log stating that both cas and cas-management have found the cas.properties and management.properties files, cas-management appears to not read the contents. 

Settings like the JSON service Registry folder location will not take if I just define them in the management.properties file. CAS picks up on the location defined in its cas.properties file, but not CAS-Management. I have just had luck defining it's location in the SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON environment variable using the same property as is written in the management.properties file. That got that part working, but then cas-management started to say it was looking in /etc/cas for things again, and failing.

Anyone have any similar experiences? 

thanks!

[Ray Bon]

Nathan,

You can pass path locations as environment variables to the container or java:

-Dcas.standalone.configurationDirectory=/home/uvtomcat/casconfigserver_config/config 

-Dspring.config.import=optional:file:///home/uvtomcat/casconfigserver_config/config/management.properties

The first line is what we used in our previous version of cas management, the second line is the one I added for version 6.5 (not sure why spring no longer finds the file in the directory). 

Other paths can go in management.properties.

Ray

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[Nathan Lewan]

that did it!

thank you so much, I was really pulling my hair out on that one.