Remote DM Deployment

[tmhilton]

I am trying to set up a staging and production environment on two systems. I would like to have the staging environment set up to deploy to a local deployment receiver that is accessible under Web Deployed on the staging system. I would like to have the production set up to deploy to a remote deployment receiver that is accessible under Web Deployed on the production system.

I have set up different combinations of environments from Windows XP to Windows XP, Mac to Mac, and even Windows XP to Mac. I have seen this issue posted in other threads and have yet to get it to work successfully.

Here is what I have done:

Staging System

Set up a Web Project called Test

Set up Deployment Receiver for Staging
Type =Live Server
Display Name = Staging
Host = Localhost
Username = admin
Password = password
Target = alfresco

Set up Deployment Receiver for Production
Type =Live Server
Display Name = Production
Host = 192.168.1.2
Username = admin
Password = password
Target = alfresco

Production System

Set C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco-global.properties
   deployment.dmr.consolidate=true
   deployment.dmr.name=alfresco

I’ve tried several different combinations and variations including setting up a Web Project on the production system, setting the alfresco.rmi.services.port and host on each system, and setting the JAVA_OPTS to -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=192.168.1.2. No matter what I do I get the same error:

“Could not connect to remote deployment receiver, transportName:default, hostName:192.168.1.2, port: 50500”

Here is the detailed message from the log file:

15:17:55,907 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.avm.actions.AVMDeployWebsiteAction] Deployment Error
org.alfresco.service.cmr.avm.AVMException: 00030033 Deployment exception, unable to deploy : srcPath:test:/www/avm_webapps, target:alfresco, version:3, adapterName:default, hostName:192.168.1.2, port:50,500, errorrg.alfresco.service.cmr.avm.AVMException: 00030032 Could not connect to remote deployment receiver, transportName:default, hostName:192.168.1.2, port: 50500
   at org.alfresco.repo.deploy.DeploymentServiceImpl.deployDifferenceFS(DeploymentServiceImpl.java:1275)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:307)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:183)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:150)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.CheckTransactionAdvice.invoke(CheckTransactionAdvice.java:47)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionAdvice$1.execute(RetryingTransactionAdvice.java:64)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:381)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionAdvice.invoke(RetryingTransactionAdvice.java:67)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)
   at $Proxy93.deployDifferenceFS(Unknown Source)
   at org.alfresco.repo.avm.actions.AVMDeployWebsiteAction.executeImpl(AVMDeployWebsiteAction.java:403)
   at org.alfresco.repo.action.executer.ActionExecuterAbstractBase.execute(ActionExecuterAbstractBase.java:133)
   at org.alfresco.repo.action.ActionServiceImpl.directActionExecution(ActionServiceImpl.java:749)
   at org.alfresco.repo.action.ActionServiceImpl.executeActionImpl(ActionServiceImpl.java:675)
   at org.alfresco.repo.action.AsynchronousActionExecutionQueueImpl$ActionExecutionWrapper$1$1.execute(AsynchronousActionExecutionQueueImpl.java:443)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:381)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:253)
   at org.alfresco.repo.action.AsynchronousActionExecutionQueueImpl$ActionExecutionWrapper$1.doWork(AsynchronousActionExecutionQueueImpl.java:452)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:508)
   at org.alfresco.repo.action.AsynchronousActionExecutionQueueImpl$ActionExecutionWrapper.run(AsynchronousActionExecutionQueueImpl.java:455)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: org.alfresco.service.cmr.avm.AVMException: 00030032 Could not connect to remote deployment receiver, transportName:default, hostName:192.168.1.2, port: 50500
   at org.alfresco.repo.deploy.DeploymentServiceImpl.getDeploymentReceiverService(DeploymentServiceImpl.java:940)
   at org.alfresco.repo.deploy.DeploymentServiceImpl.deployDifferenceFS(DeploymentServiceImpl.java:1130)
   … 28 more
Caused by: org.springframework.remoting.RemoteLookupFailureException: Lookup of RMI stub failed; nested exception is java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 192.168.1.2; nested exception is:
   java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
   at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiClientInterceptor.lookupStub(RmiClientInterceptor.java:215)
   at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiClientInterceptor.prepare(RmiClientInterceptor.java:147)
   at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiClientInterceptor.afterPropertiesSet(RmiClientInterceptor.java:135)
   at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiProxyFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(RmiProxyFactoryBean.java:68)
   at org.alfresco.repo.deploy.DeploymentReceiverTransportAdapterRMI.getTransport(DeploymentReceiverTransportAdapterRMI.java:41)
   at org.alfresco.repo.deploy.DeploymentServiceImpl.getDeploymentReceiverService(DeploymentServiceImpl.java:931)
   … 29 more
Caused by: java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 192.168.1.2; nested exception is:
   java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
   at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:601)
   at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:198)
   at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:184)
   at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.newCall(UnicastRef.java:322)
   at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl_Stub.lookup(Unknown Source)
   at java.rmi.Naming.lookup(Naming.java:84)
   at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiClientInterceptor.lookupStub(RmiClientInterceptor.java:200)
   … 34 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
   at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:525)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:475)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:372)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:186)
   at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIDirectSocketFactory.java:22)
   at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIMasterSocketFactory.java:128)
   at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:595)
   … 40 more

I can get the deployment to work using the standalone deployment receiver (on Windows XP and Mac) using the 44100 port. The problem is I would like it to deploy to another instance of Alfresco running on a production system. Is this possible? Any tips or suggestions on what I am doing wrong? Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Tod

[mrogers]

That should work.

Check
a) that you have the "wdr_deployment" subsystem running on production.  There should be an "Info" message on startup.
b) use "netstat" that your producion server is listening on 192.168.1.2:50500
c) you havn't got a firewall blocking access.

[tmhilton]

Thank you for your help and the prompt reply.

Port 50500 is showing up on netstat, and I have it open on my firewall. I've looked through all of the log files and do not see and don't see anything related to wdr_deployment. Is this different from wcm_deployment? I do see wcm_deployment_receiver in the subsystems folder. Is there something else I need to configure?

Thanks again for your help.

Tod

[tmhilton]

I just installed Alfresco Community 3.3 on two Windows XP systems. On the production (receiver) system I added the following to the alfresco-global.properties file:
deployment.dmr.consolidate=true
deployment.dmr.name=alfresco

On the staging (sender) system I set up a Web Project with a reciever pointing to port 50500 and target alfresco on the production system. The deployment to the production system was successful.

I'm not sure what the differences are between the 3.3 and 3.4c versions, but something doesn't seem to be quite right when doing a deploy to a remote DM target using 3.4c. Hopefully this is something that can be resolved soon.

Thanks,
Tod

[tmhilton]

So, is the WCM to a remote DM functionality supposed to be the same for 3.4c as it is for 3.3? Should this work with a simple installation or are there additional steps that I am missing? I would really like to make this work so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Tod

[rptester]

I also have a similar issue. If I try to deploy to my localhost with target as default it works fine. When I am trying to deploy to my remote linux server that has stand alone deployment receiver running, I get the error "Could not connect to remote deployment receiver". Has anybody else encountered this issue and solved it successfully?