RightScale integration of Cloudmin - all RightScale support has been disabled

Submitted by knet on Sun, 06/13/2010 - 21:59

Hi,

I subscribed to the Cloudmin paid AMI specifically because the subscription page mentioned it was built on a RightScale image. I use RightScale to manage my servers as I don't want to manually bring up servers then manually configure them - I want to make use of RightScale's API, RightScripts, RightLink, RightScale's monitoring, etc.

Unfortunately, it looks like the RightScale integration (init scripts, etc) have been disabled on the Cloudmin paid AMI.

This means, in RightScale, that the server never appears to leave the 'booting' state and reach 'operational'. It also means that I cannot run RightScripts on the server, or use the RightScale API to drive the Cloudmin server, or use RightScale monitoring, etc.

Can you please tell me how to re-integrate the Cloudmin AMI with RightScale?

So far it looks like I'm going to have to go through http://support.rightscale.com/12-Guides/RightLink/04-Creating_RightScale... and re-bundle the AMI. However, if I do that it will mean I can launch Cloudmin without using the paid AMI. Is that violating the license agreement? What are my options here? Should I give up on Cloudmin, go back to integrating Virtualmin with RightScale, and use a combination of RightScale, RightScripts, and some external Google App Engine code to wrap Virtualmin servers and mimic the features of Cloudmin?

Cheers, knet.

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Mon, 06/14/2010 - 01:43

I seem to recall that those Rightscale init scripts caused some problem for me in the past, which is why they were disabled. However, you are welcome to try re-enabling them - you could enable the init script on just one system, reboot it, and then check that it comes up OK.

As for re-bundling, my understanding is that this is possible as it preserves the EC2 product code from the original AMI. So only subscribers to the original AMI will be able to use your new re-bundled one.

Submitted by knet on Mon, 06/14/2010 - 18:37

Awesome, so I tweak how I like, re-bundle, and maintain my subscription? That would be a great compromise.

Cheers, knet.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Mon, 06/14/2010 - 20:19

Yes, to my knowledge that works fine. Please re-open this bug if you find otherwise..

Submitted by Issues on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 22:20

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.