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Michael Müller
Michael Müller

Reputation: 401

Run Symmetricds latest on Docker

I am trying to install Symmetric DS on Docker which is running under PhotonOS. Since I just installed another Docker Image, I have at least some basic knowledge.

I run exactly these commands:

https://hub.docker.com/r/jumpmind/symmetricds

Which works so far untill I get

2024-01-04 21:47:38,623 INFO [startup] [SymmetricWebServer] [main] About to start SymmetricDS         web server on 0.0.0.0:31415                                               :HTTP/1.1
2024-01-04 21:47:38,762 INFO [startup] [SymmetricEngineHolder] [main] Current directory is /opt/symmetric-ds
2024-01-04 21:47:38,762 INFO [startup] [SymmetricEngineHolder] [main] Starting in multi-server mode with engines director                                               y at /opt/symmetric-ds/engines
2024-01-04 21:47:38,762 INFO [startup] [SymmetricEngineHolder] [main] No engine *.properties files found
2024-01-04 21:47:39,178 INFO [startup] [SymmetricWebServer] [main] Joining the web server main thread
Stopping abandoned wrapper PID 29

First of all I wonder, shouldnt a Docker Image more or less simply work and more important what am I missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 546

Answers (4)

Jason
Jason

Reputation: 605

Symmetricds seem to go out of their way to make documentation and information as poor as possible - for the community version at least. They've even removed all the javadocs that used to be available on their site.

regardless, if you are going to use the docker image be sure to do something about the tmp directory which stores all the staging data (I haven't seen any docs that mention anything wrt docker). If you don't you'll lose it every time you restart the container. Something like this will work.

docker run --rm -i -p 31415:31415 --name sym -v "/`pwd`/engines":"/opt/symmetric-ds/engines" -v "/`pwd`/conf":"/opt/symmetric-ds/conf" -v "/`pwd`/security":"/opt/symmetric-ds/security" -v "/`pwd`/logs":"/opt/symmetric-ds/logs"  -v "/`pwd`/patches":"/opt/symmetric-ds/patches" -v "/`pwd`/tmp":"/opt/symmetric-ds/tmp"  jumpmind/symmetricds

Upvotes: 0

Pavel_JM
Pavel_JM

Reputation: 11

It is important to note that there are TWO SymmetricDS Docker images: one open-source and another for the PRO version (paid license). https://hub.docker.com/u/jumpmind

The open-source SymmetricDS Docker image depends on YOU to provide details of database connection in the .properties engine file (as described in the User guide). So this is working as designed. https://symmetricds.sourceforge.net/doc/3.15/html/user-guide.html

The PRO version of SymmetricDS has many more features, including a web console UI. This image works out of the gate and allows web console user to configure all database connections (multiple if you wish), provide license details and reboot to apply changes. https://downloads.jumpmind.com/symmetricds/doc/3.15/html/user-guide.html

Upvotes: 0

Michael Müller
Michael Müller

Reputation: 401

In the Symmetric Docker image, there seams to be no basic *.properties file. This file contains the fundamental settings without the startup reports errors.

If you don't know the basic concepts of SymmetricDS, just follow these steps: https://symmetricds.sourceforge.net/doc/3.12/html/tutorials.html

If you want more quickly to try out SymmetricDS, simply download it on Windows or Linux, install the latest JAVA from Oracle and follow the guide above. It takes about 30 minutes to learn the basics.

Upvotes: 1

Boris Pavlović
Boris Pavlović

Reputation: 64640

this is the culprit

No engine *.properties files found

please provide the engine configuration file.

Upvotes: 0

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