Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Administration I

Instructions

1. Another administrator installed JBoss EAP on an existing host and you need to replicate the same installation process on the workstation machine. In this step, you have the answer file generated during the installation process.

   Install JBoss EAP 7 by using the automated installer based on the following criteria:

   Table 1.2. Criteria for automated installer execution

   Field	Value
   Admin username	admin
   Admin password	redhat123
   Install Path (JBOSS_HOME)	/opt/jboss-eap-7.4

   
   

   The myinstall.xml.variables file and the myinstall.xml answer file are available at the /home/student/AD248/labs/features-review/ directory. The JBoss EAP 7 installer is located at /home/student/. Verify that the configuration from these files follows the expected characteristics.

   [student@workstation ~]$ sudo java -jar jboss-eap-7.4.0-installer.jar \
     /home/student/AD248/labs/features-review/myinstall.xml
   
   Checking for corresponding .variables file
   Variables file detected: /home/student/AD248/labs/features-review/myinstall.xml.variables
   [ Starting automated installation ]
   Read pack list from xml definition.
   Try to add to selection [Name: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Index: 0]
   Try to add to selection [Name: AppClient and Index: 1]
   Try to add to selection [Name: XMLs and XSDs and Index: 2]
   Try to add to selection [Name: Modules and Index: 3]
   Try to add to selection [Name: Welcome Content and Index: 4]
   Modify pack selection.
   Validation warning
   
   Password should have at least one non-alphanumeric symbol.
   [ Starting to unpack ]
   [ Processing package: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (1/5) ]
   [ Processing package: AppClient (2/5) ]
   [ Processing package: Docs (3/5) ]
   [ Processing package: Modules (4/5) ]
   [ Processing package: Welcome Content (5/5) ]
   [ Unpacking finished ]
   [ Starting processing ]
   Starting process Logging installation information (1/3)
   IzPack variable state written to /opt/jboss-eap-7.4/installation/InstallationLog.txt
   Starting process Adding admin user (2/3)
   Starting process Cleanup extraneous folders and tepmorary files (3/3)
   [ Processing finished ]
   [ Writing the uninstaller data ... ]
   [ Automated installation done ]

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2. Verify that the /opt/jboss-eap-7.4 directory is created, and verify that the startup and other scripts, such as standalone.sh, domain.sh, add-user.sh, are available in the JBOSS_HOME/bin directory.

   [student@workstation ~]$ ls -la /opt/jboss-eap-7.4
   ...output omitted...
   [student@workstation ~]$ ls -la /opt/jboss-eap-7.4/bin
   ...output omitted...

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3. Red Hat recommends running JBoss EAP as a non-root user to prevent the access of malicious users with administrative permissions to the host. The jboss user already exists.

   Change the ownership of the /opt/jboss-eap-7.4 directory and all the files within the directory to user jboss and group jboss by using the chown -R command.

   Verify the ownership change by running the following command :

   [student@workstation ~]$ ls -la /opt/jboss-eap-7.4

   [student@workstation ~]$ sudo chown -R jboss:jboss /opt/jboss-eap-7.4

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4. Start a JBoss EAP standalone server as the jboss user. In a new terminal window, login as the jboss user to start the JBoss EAP 7 instance. (Hint: Use the sudo -u jboss command.)

   [student@workstation ~]$ sudo -u jboss /opt/jboss-eap-7.4/bin/standalone.sh

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5. Verify that the admin credentials work. Log in to the JBoss EAP 7 administration console using the admin as the user, redhat123 as the password.

   Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:9990

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6. Shutdown the JBoss EAP 7 server by pressing Ctrl+C in the terminal window where you started EAP 7.

7. Open a new terminal window to verify the completion of this lab by running the following command:

   [student@workstation ~]$ lab grade features-review