Fatal error installation

[gonzalo-]

Hello,

I am having a problem with the installation over CentOS 7:

Fatal error: Uncaught ErrorException: Uncaught ErrorException: Creating default object from empty value in /usr/share/php/Icinga/Web/Controller/ActionController.php:127 Stack trace: #0 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Web/Controller/ActionController.php(127): Icinga\Application\ApplicationBootstrap->Icinga\Application\{closure}(2, 'Creating defaul...', '/usr/share/php/...', 127, Array) #1 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Web/Controller/Dispatcher.php(59): Icinga\Web\Controller\ActionController->__construct(Object(Icinga\Web\Request), Object(Icinga\Web\Response), Array) #2 /usr/share/icingaweb2/library/vendor/Zend/Controller/Front.php(937): Icinga\Web\Controller\Dispatcher->dispatch(Object(Icinga\Web\Request), Object(Icinga\Web\Response)) #3 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/Web.php(409): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch(Object(Icinga\Web\Request), Object(Icinga\Web\Response)) #4 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/webrouter.php(104): Icinga\Application\Web->dispatch() #5 /usr/share/icingaweb2/public/index.php(4): require_once('/usr/share/php/...' in /usr/share/icingaweb2/library/vendor/Zend/Controller/Plugin/Broker.php on line 259

Icingaweb2 version: r2.8.4-1

Any idea?

[cberg2048]

I think this may be the same issue I ran into in #9. What version of Director are you running?

[gonzalo-]

Yup, the same one, any idea of deliver the vmaware module with those libs in?

sorry for the noise

[cberg2048]

No problem. I have no idea about when, or if, the module will contain those libraries. As far as I know, Thomas is the sole contributor. Also please take a look at the rest of the requirements in /doc/01-Installation.md
The reactbundle also messed me up.

[Thomas-Gelf]

Hi guys,

following the installation guide step by step will get you started. Director must be at least 1.5.x, reactbundle as explained NOT from the master, DB resource and related config.ini need to be in the right place. It definitively works, I know multiple people that have been able to install it this and last week. Some had trouble, but root cause was always that they skipped a step in the documentation.

After a longer break I'm now once again actively working on this, and while not having an official deadline I'd love to ship a first public release within the first week of November. Depends on multiple factors, so please don't bet on this. The module is pretty mature, running in semi-production in an environment with 5000+ VMs since nearly a year.

To get it release-ready some boring tasks need to be addressed: steal schema-migration logic from Icinga Director, be helpful when not configured correctly - and drop the requirement of running one daemon per vCenter - there should be just one of them.

@gonzalo-: there is no vmware lib required, I started to hate them in the Perl world and did not want to have such dependency at all. Code talking to the SOAP API has been written from scratch, supports just what we need - and is very fast. It supports all versions from 5.5 up to 6.7.

The exception you're seeing hides the real error, like the Director this module behaves a little bit different than the average Icinga Web 2 module - we're using them as protoypes to experiment with what we want to have in the main framework in future. You're exception however tells me that some of the very basic requirements (from Installation.md) hasn't been fulfilled. Once released, we'll catch those errors - until now we didn't, just because we didn't care. That's why I placed the "Do not use" hint into the Readme file. This way I get less noise. But still, quite some people from all over the world already ignored those lines and successfully installed this module 😆

Hope this helps, otherwise please let me know.

Cheers,
Thomas

[Thomas-Gelf]

Regarding the reactbundle: it says "install a release version", please take this literal. The master is always "empty" per definition and will not work.

[gonzalo-]

@Thomas-Gelf I am using the script that you have in the README, the last release seems to be 0.3.1, it's that OK? Besides that, I switched director to the last version and looks working now.

Thanks!