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[Reid Watson <>]

Hi Carey, 

Thank you for the information 

> How did you install grouper? 

Grouper Jar with an installer file “grouper.installer.properties"

Command —> bin/java -cp .:grouperInstaller.jar 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouperInstaller.GrouperInstaller

Overview with grouper.installer.properties 

grouperInstaller.autorun.installUi = t
grouperInstaller.autorun.installClient = t
grouperInstaller.autorun.installPspng = t

grouperInstaller.autorun.deleteAndInitDatabase = t
grouperInstaller.autorun.addQuickstartData = f
grouperInstaller.autorun.installClient = f

grouperInstaller.autorun.installGrouperActiveMqMessaging = f
grouperInstaller.autorun.installGrouperAwsSqsMessaging = f
grouperInstaller.autorun.installGrouperRabbitMqMessaging = f

grouperInstaller.autorun.installUi = t
grouperInstaller.autorun.installClient = f
grouperInstaller.autorun.grouperClientErrorContinue = f
grouperInstaller.autorun.installPspng = t
grouperInstaller.autorun.installGrouperWsScim = f
grouperInstaller.autorun.installPsp = f

Patches 
grouper_v2_4_0_api_patch_45
grouper_v2_4_0_ui_patch_23
grouper_v2_4_0_ws_patch_5
grouper_v2_4_0_pspng_patch_6

> If grouperInstaller.jar
>       Did you install the SCIM server extension? ( I am guessing no. But I 
> have no knowledge that it would fix your error either. But maybe...)
>       Did you install the ESB extension? ( I am also guessing no. But I 
> have no knowledge that it would fix your error either. But maybe…)


No I didn’t 

Thank you for all the information — maybe my grouper.installer.properties 
file is incorrect, I will quickly install 2.4.0 manually just to see if there 
is a difference  

Cheers

Reid 


> On 8/05/2019, at 2:23 PM, Black, Carey M. <> wrote:
> 
> Reid,
> 
> Before someone else asks... How did you install grouper? 
> 
> Via the grouperInstaller.jar or using a docker container?
> 
> If grouperInstaller.jar
>       Did you install the SCIM server extension? ( I am guessing no. But I 
> have no knowledge that it would fix your error either. But maybe...)
>       Did you install the ESB extension? ( I am also guessing no. But I 
> have no knowledge that it would fix your error either. But maybe...)
> 
> If using a Docker container:
>       Which patch level are you using?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> FWIW: (not exactly what you're looking for...)
> 
> I have managed to get the core grouper Messaging to work without those 
> extensions. 
> But found that the AWS SNS integration code nowhere to be found in my 
> install. ( I also had "missing classes" when I tried the esb.publisher that 
> was in my install. I don't remember what class it complained about at the 
> moment. Though I do not have SCIM server extension installed. Maybe that 
> was my error? )
> 
> I did get the AWS SQS integration working after installing the ESB 
> extension and fumbling with the configuration for a few days. ( Ugh. )
>       I resorted to using the .aws/config file to set the  [default] 
> region=<value> setting. ( Sigh )
>       Then I finally got a "bad password" error ( finally something kind of 
> worked)... ( Using capital "oh"'s and Zero's in a password is not a good 
> idea when a human needs to type them. Always. <-- fail )
>       Then I had miss read the code and thought the ".queueOrTopicName" 
> value needed to be the URL for the queue.
>               It only needs to be the name of the Queue for SQS. The 
> authenticated AWS session looks up the URL for the queue. DOH!  
>               I was getting an "unknown queue" error... "But the config 
> value looked 'right' to me". ( Sigh. A forehead flattener for sure. Really 
> self-inflicted, so don’t do that. :) )
>       Finally the messages were sent.
>       Lastly.. I had to enhance the ChangeLogConsumerToMessage.java to 
> support "obvious" features like ( I mostly "copied/altered" from the 
> src.esb.edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.changeLog.esb.consumer.EsbConsumer 
> code into my change log consumer) :
>               Filter the event sent ( It was sending all of them.)
>               Support adding Subject attributes. ( It did not have that 
> feature.)
>               Filter the attributes sent ( it was sending all of them.)
> 
>               Now that I am writing this I really should have also added a 
> setting for the AWS region and figured out how to add that to the AWS auth 
> process.... ( Feature enhancement! )
> 
> Sigh, another custom Change Log consumer.
> 
> 
> 
> Oh and if you are being told to install anything that is jetty-6.1. You 
> should likely just run away. 
> It looks like jetty 6 was deprecated/end of life in 2010.( About a decade 
> ago.)  9.2 was EOL'ed Jan 2018. ( Yikes! ) 
>       Jetty 9.3 or 9.4 are listed as "stable". 
>       
> And I have no idea why a "Jetty" jars would be needed. 
> Are you using Tomcat? ( as most default grouper installs would use? ) 
> 
> Maybe the SCIM server was only designed to run in a JETTY server?! Or needs 
> some libs that Tomcat did/does(?) not have?!
> 
> -- 
> Carey Matthew 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  
> <> On Behalf Of Reid Watson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 7:41 PM
> To: 
> Subject: [grouper-users] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
> org.mortbay.jetty.HttpException - Missing jetty-6.1.26.jar
> 
> Hi Everyone, 
> 
> Very quick question about “jetty-6.1.*.jar”, when installing Grouper 2.4.0. 
> (Default install) we noticed certain jar’s a missing from a specific path 
> “grouper.apiBinary-2.4.0/lib/grouper”, investigating further we found the 
> jar’s are located within
> 
> grouper.ws-2.4.0/grouper-ws-scim/targetBuiltin/grouper-ws-scim/WEB-INF/lib/jetty-6.1.26.jar
> grouper.ws-2.4.0/grouper-ws-scim/targetBuiltin/grouper-ws-scim/WEB-INF/lib/jetty-util-6.1.26.jar
> 
> Were currently attempting to run “EsbHttpPublisher / EsbConsumer” by 
> setting the following fields within “grouper-loader.properties" 
> 
> changeLog.consumer.esb.class = 
> edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.changeLog.esb.consumer.EsbConsumer
> changeLog.consumer.esb.publisher.class = 
> edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.changeLog.esb.consumer.EsbHttpPublisher
> 
> From the API logs we receive the following error message 
> 
> Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/mortbay/jetty/HttpException
>        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
>        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:186)
>        at 
> edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.util.GrouperUtil.forName(GrouperUtil.java:1590)
>        ... 26 more
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.mortbay.jetty.HttpException
> 
> When checking “/grouper.apiBinary-2.4.0/lib/grouper/“ the jar’s are 
> missing, reading an old thread from 2013 
> “https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-users/2013-06/msg00083.html” 
> an engineer stated the following comment 
> 
> “I assume I am missing some jar file in the api/lib/grouper directory? I 
> didn’t see anything about this in the wiki."
> 
> I would prefer someone from the grouper community review before I create a 
> Jira ticket 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Reid 
> 
> 
> 
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