This one looks more feature rich.
though the installation has so many oving parts.
Nodejs, tomcat etc. Not sure how it interferes with webtop etc.
As a lawyer myself, I’d love to see this (even though I wouldn’t be able to take advantage of it, as I work for the government and we have our own POS case management system).
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Yes, for over 20 years now.
It looks like ArkCase requires Alfresco, which is available in both a Community and an Enterprise edition–the differences are laid out here: https://www.alfresco.com/ecm-software#detail Pricing for the Enterprise edition isn’t published. The community edition really wants to run in Docker, it looks like. This seems to be the “content management” piece, and I’m guessing it does case document management. The Outlook connector from the enterprise edition would be awfully handy.
It also uses Frevvo forms, and it looks like it wants a pretty out-of-date version of it (they seem to want 6.1; the oldest supported version I see on Frevvo’s site is 7.5.4). That’s looking like commercial software, and I don’t see that there’s a free/open source version available. It wants to live on port 8082, which IIRC conflicts with Collabora/Nextcloud. I guess this is needed if you want web forms. Once again, pricing isn’t published.
Pentaho seems to be available in a free version. It would be used for generating reports.
Snowbound, which would be used as a document viewer, appears to be commercial-only. Once again, pricing isn’t published, other than the “starter kit” for US$5k.
It looks like a pretty involved installation (though it’s possible that there are alternatives for some or all of these pieces). On the plus side, CentOS 7 is a supported/tested environment, so it should be doable on Neth.
It looks like there are instructions here for setting it up in a VM, but I don’t think I’m familiar enough with either Packer or Vagrant to figure them out:
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Can we do withou t frevvo forms, as it is only for automation,
As for document viewer, replacing that with outlook of collabora that we already have.
Yes it is extremely an involving installation, one more than even the phabricator one (which i need to make a module for…)
I tried to run ArkCase on NethServer with phpvirtualbox but without success, I used a 10GB RAM VMware VM. The virtualbox VM (need 8GB RAM) is aborted after some time while having higher CPU load.
Here are my notes:
yum -y install https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.2.7/vagrant_2.2.7_x86_64.rpm nethserver-virtualbox-5.2-phpvirtualbox
/sbin/vboxconfig
su - vboxweb
Create the file Vagrantfile with following content:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "arkcase/arkcase-ce"
config.vm.box_version = "3.3.1-r1-a"
config.vm.box_url = "https://app.vagrantup.com/arkcase/boxes/arkcase-ce"
# Create public(bridged) network instead of private(nat)
config.vm.network "public_network", type: "dhcp"
config.vm.hostname = "arkcase-ce.local"
# disable the default synced folder
config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant', disabled: true
end
Use vagrant to download the image and put it preconfigured to virtualbox, download took 10 minutes:
vagrant up
Use a bridge (usually br0) to be able to access the VM:
==> default: Available bridged network interfaces:
1) br0
To get the IP address of the VM you need to ssh to the VM with
vagrant ssh
Use sudo -s to get root.
Get the IP address of the ArkCase VM:
ifconfig
Now can manage the ArkCase VM in phpvirtualbox:
Set a DNS entry for arkcase-ce.local to the VM IP so your browsing client can resolve it or just browse by IP.
su - vboxweb
vagrant ssh
sudo -s
Get the PID of the stuck solr process:
[root@arkcase-ce vagrant]# ps ax | grep solr
671 ...
Kill the process:
kill 671
Restart other main services:
systemctl restart arkcase pentaho alfresco
It takes some time until the memory is filled by the processes. You may watch it with top. If ready arkcase and the other services are reachable, if not you get a proxy error:
Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /arkcase.
Reason: Error reading from remote server
After some time you should be able to login to https://IP/arkcase. Check out https://IP for login credentials and other running services.
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Can we work on this on a hosted vps.
I can run a similar installation on mine, while i can provide you with a testing server for the same.
I think it’s intended to work locally but installation should be possible on Nethserver as VPS too. It needs some disk space for the image, I think about 10 GB.
Honestly, I am a little disappointed that their image for people to have a look doesn’t work.
EDIT:
It’s working. I updated the quick install post.
Apache Solr needs to be killed to (re)start properly. This happens on every reboot.
I think we should first have a look if the software is useful and if yes we can think about fixing the VM problems or integrating it to Nethserver directly.
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cool, just got something new to test. ill test and anlyze its use cases, then if all is well, as metnioned, we can have the intergration into nethserver working.
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am curious about installing this on a hosted vps. You tested on a local machine it worked. i’d like to test on hosted vps, with a domain and ssl to see how the journey takes, me…
To make it work without firewall issues I used a bridged network getting IP from DHCP for the arkcase VM. If you can easily get a second public IP on the VPS it should just work.
If not you could change to public mode in VagrantFile (or NAT network for VM) and add firewall configuration.
Local services like samba are running in the VM so for production you may consider using a dummy interface for securing.
should this be nano Vagrantfile or are there more itmes to de done?
Yes, just create the file with the editor you like.
yes i can get a second ip for the server. Must it be configured that way with 2 public ips?
now am even more lost here
should this be exactly this way, or should the arkcase-ce be replaced with subdomain.
Also should this be replaced with subdomain
In this case you need to configure the arkcase VM to use a static ip or adapt the vagrantfile.
In the Vagrantfile you can choose between public and private network, I added a comment in the howto.
Exactly that way, nothing to replace here. It works with IP too no matter what you configure at that stage.
i think it can not run on an AMD machine.
There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.
Command: ["startvm", "1c9e74f3-9a7f-4500-a61d-9584975a6918", "--type", "headless"]
Stderr: VBoxManage: error: AMD-V is not available (VERR_SVM_NO_SVM)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ConsoleWrap, interface IConsole
ill just get another intel vps and test…
I am afraid this is not a problem about Intel/AMD.
The VPS host needs to support nested virtualization with virtualbox:
The virtualized arkcase in the virtualized Nethserver.
hmm. so what needs to happen in this case?
I tested in VMware, there you can just enable Intel VT/AMD V in cpu settings.
I’d try the following:
- Is it possible to maybe change this in VPS settings/bios? Just an idea, don’t know about different options of providers
- Look at virtualbox settings, maybe there’s an option to cheat.
- If easily possible try with Intel
- Integrated install - the hard way