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Inquisitor Shm
Inquisitor Shm

Reputation: 1591

Sonatype Nexus 3 stuck on OnLine - Ready To Connect status for proxies

I have installed Nexus several times before, but Nexus 3 seems to be a bit different. Taking a basic installation running on Docker, after a few minutes Nexus reports the remote Central proxy as Online - Remote Available. However, I cannot find the perennial asset 'junit'.

I have a non-docker install which is my production install on a multihomed machine. This machine remains for ever stuck on Online - Ready to Connect status. I have tried urlpoke.jar from this machine and I have full communications to the Central repo.

I appreciate the deletion of dialogs and buttons was a design goal but its working against you. Nexus2 was much simpler in this regard and I suggest you resist dummyfication when attempting simplification. You are not apple, and apple fails horribly at this too, just see how people google basic operations on itunes, because iTunes really is a pathetic UI experience which only gets worse with each update.

Please help Sonatype OSS project, or is it time to move to Artifactory?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 16921

Answers (2)

Inquisitor Shm
Inquisitor Shm

Reputation: 1591

It turns out the issue was related to authentication. I had set LDAP as an authentication source and this was allowing me to log in and administer the UI, but not allowing me to access the proxies. Not sure why I did not resolve it.

The entire lot only worked again, without LDAP, when I reinstalled it and blew away my prior configuration.

Although I can now PULL assets from my proxied back-ends, I cannot search the backends.

Nexus 2 used to download or build an index from the backend proxied maven sites, and we used to be able to query our nexus 2 searching for any artifact in the backend proxied sites. For some reason, I don't have this working still. If this feature has been deprecated, Nexus 3 has gravely missed the mark and can no longer effectively be considered as a Maven Repository IMO.

Upvotes: 3

rseddon
rseddon

Reputation: 5318

The "Online - Ready to Connect" just means that the repository is working, and it will connect as soon as you make a request into Nexus that triggers an outbound request to the proxy's remote. Try running a build against Nexus.

Upvotes: 8

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