live demo for eas?

[Chris Holmes]

Hey all, at OpenGeo we just got some extra server capacity for live demos and applications in development.  See for example http://gem.demo.opengeo.org/FaultedEarth/

I'd love to be able to point people at a live demo of the EAS, since it's a great demonstration of our underlying software.  We can definitely spare the server space, and I think we may have a bit of capacity to help set it up (or can make a VM open to others), if you all would like a place for a live demo to live.  We'd just ask to be able to put up a small 'powered by opengeo' logo, and would be totally happy to put other's links as well (farallon and SF).

Ideally this would enable a lot more people to check out the basics without having to download code.  Things like this work well for us, like http://suite.opengeo.org

thoughts?

C

[McCullough, Paul]

Chris,

 

Funny you should ask.

We just a related discussion:

    http://groups.google.com/group/eas-discuss/browse_thread/thread/cd74f330e20067a

I’ll guess you heard through Karl.

 

A fine idea I think – thank you for offering.

Coincidentally, Henry Jiang is currently migrating us (SF) from applogic to vmware.

Do you  suppose we could just give you the VMs?

The VMs won’t be ready for another week or two.

 

Putting the logos on is fine.

If you tell me the dimensions you want I’ll see if I can dig something up for SF.

 

We will have to agree on who will provide admin (access), give demos, be the general contact person.

And who we call when it goes casters up…etc.

 

I think Farallon is the right entity for the admin and demos because they’ll be the most motivated and they have marketing and sales built into their business.

 

Regards

Paul

[Karl Fogel]

"McCullough, Paul" <paul.mc...@sfgov.org> writes:
>I’ll guess you heard through Karl.

Interestingly, no :-).

Chris mailed me out of the blue asking about this, and I said "Hmm, we
were just talking about this on eas-discuss -- why don't you post there
and see what happens?"

Some things are just in the air, I guess.

[Paul McCullough]

Not sure if this matters but I should add that we will be setting up 3 VMs.
These will be vmware version 4.1

[cholmes]

Hrm, I don't think we're on VMware, I'll ask my sys admin though. But
I imagine it won't be too hard to set up if we get your data
directory, postgis dump (oracle may be a bit more work, but not too
bad), and javascript code.

Also could you put my email in the cc when you reply? I was hoping
just emailing would get me on the thread, but it appears to be web
only for me.

C

On Feb 17, 4:50 pm, Paul McCullough <p.e.mccullo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure if this matters but I should add that we will be setting up 3 VMs.
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[Dennis W]

All,

I just wanted to confirm for you all that we're happy to manage the
requests for access to the EAS. Paul and I agreed that it makes sense
to do a short demo for people, then provide them access to the system
with an account. If we could take advantage of Chris' offer to host
the EAS on OpenGeo's platform, so much the better.

At least for the near-term, this seems like a pretty straightforward
approach. If we start getting too many requests for access (a nice
problem to contemplate!), we can talk about how to respond.

Cheers,

Dennis

[Will Meredith]

Hi all, sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here, or if my issues seem a bit pedestrian. I'm looking on the project with a great deal of excitement for my prospects of use. I work for a small city in upstate New York called Binghamton. I've been lurking and fiddling around with my own stack (I've got linux experience, but absolutely no experience until now with subversion, any open source GIS stuff like geoserver/osgeo/postGIS, and django). It's all new and exciting, but kind of time consuming for someone who has other duties. I was wondering if the VM images mentioned here are available. I don't have access to AWS but I can mess with virtualbox all day. It seems like an initial, unpopulated (or even data populated) vmdk could be taken from EC2 via rsync (as described here ) or similar. Is that possible? Am I barking up the right tree? If I can't get this implemented as soon as my heart wants, then kudos at least. This is such an exciting project!

Thanks,
Will Meredith
Public Works Data Coordinator, Binghamton NY

[McCullough, Paul]

Will,

 

Not a dead horse at all – glad you are interested.

I am going to punt this one over to Farallon.

 

Regards,

Paul

[Dennis Wuthrich]

Will,

I'm on vacation at the moment (with dicey access to the Internet), so I've cc'd Jeff Smith from our office to see if he can offer some insight into your question about the eas on a vm. 

Jeff, could you please contact Will?

Cheers,

Dennis 

Sent from my iPad

[Jeffrey Smith]

Hi Will,

Unfortunately, the VM image on Amazon is a Windows server so I don't think using rsync would work.  However, I think there are ways of achieving this using some P2V/V2P migration processes or tools as mentioned in the same forum thread you linked to.  We do not have any experience doing this though so I'm not sure how challenging it would be.  If you do manage to get this working I would be very curious to learn about the process.

Thanks,

Jeff

[Will Meredith]

Haha, I kinda like that you have no experience with it everyone's shooting from the hip. I don't have any experience with ACS. So the production stack is not linux based? I started building on server 2003 with Geoserver and OSGeo4W. I got my Postgres database all running but once I started introducing web stuff (if I understood the documentation correctly), django didn't like it and said I had some unexpected customization or some other such friendly-sounding errors. That area of the documentation seemed pretty linux heavy so I thought I'd have better luck building on a linux box, but I got to about the same place. Geoserver and postgres working fine and talking to each other, django talking successfully to postgres, but unable to get the EAS frontend up. By the way, someone please let me know if this is an appropriate place to go in depth about this, or if I should talk to someone off the list, etc. I'm fine either way and understand how much time one might have to devote to something they're not paid to field questions on :)

Thanks,
Will

[McCullough, Paul]

Will,

 

I work for the City and County of San Francisco – we are using EAS in production here.

We are running everything on centos linux under vmware.

 

This is absolutely the correct place to be discussing these questions.

 

Jeff should be able to look at your specific problem and help you.

Jeff, if you get stuck for more than 10 minutes, drop me a line.

 

Whatever the outcome please let me know how we can improve the docs.

[McCullough, Paul]

Dennis, Jeff – Are you able to help Will?

[Jeff Frost]

Which Jeff are you talking to?

[McCullough, Paul]

Sorry – I was asking Jeff Smith or Dennis Wuthrich to reply.

Paul M

[Will Meredith]

Thanks for sticking on this, Paul. I've roughly documented my process in building the stack in both a windows server 2003 native environment, and a virtual ubuntu linux server. To fix my stumbling block in getting the web frontend stuff to work would take more time and effort on the part of whomever might be willing to help (but in turn be useful to others of my lowly skill level wanting to build their own). The downside for the folks here here is that building a stack of this nature and working with these particular pieces of software is new to me and I could have a more helpful and informed vocabulary. The upside is that I have a living use case / lab to try out or customize the finished product in; A small-mid sized city.

-Will

[Dennis Wuthrich]

Will, Paul;

FYI, we (Farallon) talked this morning about setting up a linux VM running the latest EAS code base and making it available (along with a set of step-by-step instructions for installing the EAS) to the user community.  We'll start working on this and will let you know when we have it available.  Will (and Jeff Frost), would you find this effort helpful?

-Dennis

[McCullough, Paul]

Clarification..

Jeff Frost works for Postgress Experts – he helped us (San Francisco) set up our 9.1 instance with replication.

[Will Meredith]

Will (and Jeff Frost), would you find this effort helpful?

Yes that would be remarkable!

he helped us (San Francisco) set up our 9.1 instance with replication.

What do you mean by replication - do you run localized copies in each office that uses it and replicate to a central (your EC2 server) DB occasionally throughout the day to make access faster? I could of course RTFM more too ;)

Will

[McCullough, Paul]

Will,

 

Replication is used only to support continuation of business in the face of various failure scenarios (aka disaster recovery).

Here is our page on this:

https://sfgovdt.jira.com/wiki/display/MAD/Business+Continuation+Plan

 

To answer your question more directly, we replicate to a single “colocation” facility in San Diego.

 

Regards

Paul

[Will Meredith]

Hello again - just wondering if there has been any progress has been made on a VDI or otherwise for the working stack. Of course I realize no one is beholden to me, just a little bump. Thanks!

Will Meredith

City of Binghamton NY

[Jeffrey Smith]

Hi Will,

We are currently in the process of upgrading some of the core libraries used with the EAS.  Once this upgrade is complete we will look into creating a VM.  We will let you know once we start to make some progress on this.

Thanks,

Jeff

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Adam Lodge <ada...@gmail.com> wrote:

Do u know the latest on this?

[McCullough, Paul]

Jeff,

 

The upgrades (completed and pending) are listed on the wiki…

https://sfgovdt.jira.com/wiki/display/MAD/Welcome

 

A good time to package this up would be after the geoserver upgrade.

This work is starting today and should take about 2 weeks.

 

Hope that sheds some light!

[Will Meredith]

Excellent, thank you. This is so fantastic. Y'all make me proud and I'm anxious to test it out here. I've got the local NYS GIS users chapter all hyped up about it too.

Thanks,

Will

[McCullough, Paul]

All,

 

I’ve just spent a bit more time editing the home page in an effort to make the “roadmap” a bit more clear.

Comments are welcome.
https://sfgovdt.jira.com/wiki/display/MAD/Welcome

[Will Meredith]

Looks like there has been some exciting progress! How are the prospects of a test drive VDI image for the cloudless?

Will

[Robert Gaston]

Hi Will,

At the moment, we do not have a VM image that is ready for distribution, however we are close to having a script which will automate the install and deployment to fresh CentOS install (suitable for use on a VM).  Unfortunately, we are in a bit of a time crunch at the moment and it may not be until late this month/early next month that we are able to bring this script to maturity.  I'll keep the group updated on progress here.  If you're feeling adventurous, I could send you an early version of the script to play with (and possibly contribute to?); however the current version is still not exhaustive (at least as far as the deployment process goes) and probably has some bugs as well.

Thanks,

- Rob Gaston

Farallon Geographics, Inc.

[McCullough, Paul]

Cool – can you just commit to the public repo?

That way Will would be free to run with it (given that he has so much free time and such a big budget :-)

[Robert Gaston]

Done!

http://code.google.com/p/eas/source/browse/trunk/install.sh?spec=svn4619&r=4619

[Will Meredith]

Haha, thank you. Yes, my budget is MASSIVE. ;)

[McCullough, Paul]

All,

 

I took the liberty of renaming the file to setup_eas_single_node.sh

RE

http://code.google.com/p/eas/source/browse/trunk/setup_eas_single_node.sh