Installing particular version of openwisp server using ansible

Harish SS

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Jan 19, 2022, 4:53:40 AM1/19/22

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Hi All,

We are able to integrate openwisp server with our openwrt router device.Since we have done some modification according to the requirement like we are not using ModemManager on our router so we uninstalled the ModemManager package and developed customer script to send the Cellular Module information like Signal Strength, Signal Quality, Access Technology and signal to noise ratio to Openwisp server it's working fine for us.So we want to retain the present master branch version in the future Openwisp Server installation for our device.

For installation of Openwisp Server we are using the ansible method.Can you please help us how to install the same present master branch for our future installation.

Since we have tested lot on the present git master branch version,so in future we don't want to install the upgraded openwisp server version for our router.

Can you please help us out in this regard.

Federico Capoano

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Jan 19, 2022, 7:54:24 AM1/19/22

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Hi Harish,

I'm glad you were able to make it work!

I think your question is not clear, please try to be more specific and use a bit more technical reference, what is that you need to do exactly and you aren't able to figure out right now?

Best regards

Federico Capoano

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Harish SS

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Jan 19, 2022, 8:14:38 AM1/19/22

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Hi Federico,

When we are installing openwisp-server through ansible below versions of package are getting installed.

openwisp-controller - 0.9.0 alpha

openwisp-monitoring - 0.2.0 alpha

openwisp-notification - 0.3

openwisp-users - 0.6.0 alpha

openwisp-utils - 0.8.0 alpha

we had tested our custom scripts with these version.So in future when we install the openwisp-server using ansible we need above versions to be installed.We don't want ansible-openwisp2 to install updated version of all these packages in future.

Is their any method to achieve this.

Federico Capoano

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Jan 19, 2022, 9:39:42 AM1/19/22

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Look for "_pip" here: https://github.com/openwisp/ansible-openwisp2

With those variables you can pin down the specific version you use.

# you may replace the values of these variables with any URL
# supported by pip (the python package installer)
# use these to install forks, branches or development versions
# WARNING: only do this if you know what you are doing; disruption
# of service is very likely to occur during development
# Custom OpenWISP 2 Python packages will be installed with "--no-deps"
# parameter, be aware that you will have to add new dependencies if
# necessary to "openwisp2_extra_python_packages" var
openwisp2_controller_pip: false
openwisp2_notifications_pip: false
openwisp2_users_pip: false
openwisp2_utils_pip: false
openwisp2_django_x509_pip: false
openwisp2_django_loci_pip: false
openwisp2_netjsonconfig_pip: false
openwisp2_network_topology_pip: false
openwisp2_firmware_upgrader_pip: false
openwisp2_monitoring_pip: false
openwisp2_radius_pip: false

Best regards

Federico Capoano

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Harish Ss

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Jan 24, 2022, 8:59:06 AM1/24/22

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Hi Federico,

Thank you for your reply,We are trying to clone all the repositories from Openwisp Github account to our private Github account because we tested our software with present repositories.So in future when we are installing Openwisp-server we want it to be installed from our personal Github account.As you suggested we tried adding our Github path to below variables.

openwisp2_controller_pip: <Github_Path>
openwisp2_notifications_pip: <Github_Path>
openwisp2_users_pip: <Github_Path>
openwisp2_utils_pip: <Github_Path>
openwisp2_django_x509_pip: <Github_Path>
openwisp2_django_loci_pip: <Github_Path>
openwisp2_netjsonconfig_pip: <Github_Path>
openwisp2_network_topology_pip: <Github_Path>
openwisp2_firmware_upgrader_pip: <Github_Path>
openwisp2_monitoring_pip: <Github_Path>
openwisp2_radius_pip: <Github_Path>

My question is these changes are enough or we need to change more to install complete openwisp-server from our Github repository.

I observed that the requirement.txt file inside openwisp-controller repository will point to your github repository we need to change those things also are only above changes are enough to achieve this. Thank you.

Federico Capoano

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Jan 25, 2022, 7:16:51 AM1/25/22

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Use the variables as indicated, there's also openwisp2_extra_python_packages with which you can control other python packages if you need.

F.

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Harish Ss

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Jan 27, 2022, 9:43:32 AM1/27/22

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Hi Federico,

Thanks for your replies.

When we are trying to install the openwisp server as discussed,we are using below playbook.yml

Below is the error we are getting

Error:

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RUNNING HANDLER [openwisp.openwisp2-dev : reload supervisor] **********************************************************************************
changed: [139.59.18.30]

RUNNING HANDLER [openwisp.openwisp2-dev : remove celerybeat schedule] *************************************************************************
ok: [139.59.18.30]

TASK [openwisp.openwisp2-dev : migrate] *******************************************************************************************************
[WARNING]: Unable to use /var/www/.ansible/tmp as temporary directory, failing back to system: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/var/www/.ansible'
fatal: [139.59.18.30]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "./manage.py migrate --noinput", "msg": "\n:stderr: Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"./manage.py\", line 10, in <module>\n execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py\", line 419, in execute_from_command_line\n utility.execute()\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py\", line 395, in execute\n django.setup()\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/__init__.py\", line 24, in setup\n apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py\", line 122, in populate\n app_config.ready()\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/openwisp_controller/config/apps.py\", line 35, in ready\n self.__setmodels__()\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/openwisp_controller/config/apps.py\", line 51, in __setmodels__\n 'subnet_division', 'SubnetDivisionRule'\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/swapper/__init__.py\", line 80, in load_model\n \"Could not find {name}!\".format(name=join(app_label, model))\ndjango.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Could not find subnet_division.SubnetDivisionRule!\n", "path": "/opt/openwisp2/env/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin", "syspath": ["/tmp/ansible_django_manage_payload_o7601lzv/ansible_django_manage_payload.zip", "/usr/lib/python36.zip", "/usr/lib/python3.6", "/usr/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload", "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages", "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages"]}

PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************************************************************
139.59.18.30 : ok=79 changed=26 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=45 rescued=0 ignored=2

Can you please help with this error?

Appreciate your constant support.

Thank you,

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