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mafboston2011
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trying to setup vcloud usage applaince stuck

Trying to follow the doc, this does not work for me:

5. Enter a new password and reenter to the same password to confirm.
The password is changed.
6. The webapp password must be initialized before it can be used. Run the command

 /opt/vmware/cloudusagemetering/scripts/webpass.sh
with no arguments for directions. Precede the command with a space, so the command, along with password, won't be saved in the shell history. The command may take some time to run. Execute the arguments for the role, service provider <s> or aggregator <a>, you wish to run as.

7. Type Exit to return to the virtual machine console and reset your time zone.
8. On the virtual machine console, navigate to Set Timezone and press Enter.
9. Select your time zone and press Enter.
10. To reflect the changed time zone you must restart the tomcat service.
11. Navigate to the Login and press Enter. Enter credentials and at the prompt, Type service tomcat restart and press Enter to restart the Tomcat service.
Upgrading vCloud Usage Meter
You can upgrade your existing vCloud Usage Meter setup to vCloud Usage Meter 2.2 from

Step 6 makes no sense to me, the command seems incomplete. Are there better instructions somewhere? Error message is in the attached document.


Thanks,

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dbriccetti
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We regret that the webpass.sh command isn’t easier to use, and that it currently always displays three lines of misleading messages.

If you are a service provider, try

...webpass.sh set s xyz

where xyz is the password

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mafboston2011
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Thanks for the response, I had tried that already and I get:

-bash: webpass.sh: command not found.

I've even cd into the dir the webpass.sh lives in and it says that and tried it with ./ ahead of it, nothing works.

My Unix skills are from 1994 so I'm rusty on this Linux stuff.

MAF

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dbriccetti
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Your ’94 Unix skills should do the job here.

/opt/vmware/cloudusagemetering/scripts/webpass.sh set s abc

where s means service provider and abc is the password

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mafboston2011
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Yeah, I tried that too before, just did it again....getting that same error I posted in the attachment

SLF4j: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".....etc.

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dbriccetti
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You can ignore those three lines of apparent errors. If you see nothing else, then the command worked.

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mafboston2011
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Ok, then the next step in the doc talks about doing all this stuff in the UI, it does not mention the URL, I can guess it is not on 80 or 443....plus we just set the password for the webuser, what is the username?

Thanks,

Miles

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dbriccetti
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https://<host>:8443/um/

There are no users. You’ll see what to do.

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matt232
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Entirely redundant but the KB article on the issue appeared a day or two ago.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=2011334

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mafboston2011
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Thanks, you have been helpful clarifying this vauge documentation (and that is being kind).

If you type set timezone from the console prompt nothing happens, is it supposed to give list of timezones?

Also, I don't think DNS was setup when the appliance was installed since I'm having trouble connecting to the FQDN from the Web GUI.

How can I check/set that?

Thanks again....

The next step setting the timezone is also completely unclear:

7. Type Exit to return to the virtual machine console and reset your time zone.
8. On the virtual machine console, navigate to Set Timezone and press Enter.
9. Select your time zone and press Enter.
10. To reflect the changed time zone you must restart the tomcat service.
11. Navigate to the Login and press Enter. Enter credentials and at the prompt, Type service tomcat restart and press Enter to restart the Tomcat service.
Upgrading vCloud Usage Meter
You can upgrade your existing vCloud Usage Meter setup to vCloud Usage Meter 2.2 from vCloud Usage

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