AppEnlight

Automatic Installation

Use the ansible scripts in the /automation directory to build complete instance of application
You can also use packer files in /automation/packer to create whole VM's for KVM and VMWare.

Manual Installation

To run the app you need to have meet prerequsites:

• python 3.5+
• running elasticsearch (2.3+ tested)
• running postgresql (9.5+ required)
• running redis

Install the app by performing

pip install -r requirements.txt

python setup.py develop

Install the appenlight uptime plugin (ae_uptime_ce package).

After installing the application you need to perform following steps:

1. (optional) generate production.ini (or use a copy of development.ini)

   appenlight-make-config production.ini

2. Setup database structure:

   appenlight-migratedb -c FILENAME.ini

3. To configure elasticsearch:

   appenlight-reindex-elasticsearch -t all -c FILENAME.ini

4. Create base database objects

   (run this command with help flag to see how to create administrator user)

   appenlight-initializedb -c FILENAME.ini

5. Generate static assets

   appenlight-static -c FILENAME.ini

Running application

To run the main app:

pserve development.ini

To run celery workers:

celery worker -A appenlight.celery -Q "reports,logs,metrics,default" --ini FILENAME.ini

To run celery beat:

celery beat -A appenlight.celery --ini FILENAME.ini

To run appenlight's uptime plugin:

appenlight-uptime-monitor -c FILENAME.ini

Real-time Notifications

You should also run the `channelstream websocket server for real-time notifications

channelstream -i filename.ini

Testing

To run test suite:

py.test appenlight/tests/tests.py --cov appenlight (this looks for testing.ini in repo root)

Development

To develop appenlight frontend:

cd frontend
npm install
bower install
grunt watch