Verifying the deployment

This document helps you ensure that all the components have been deployed successfully and they are up and running. The following sections discuss the checklist items that you need to verify after the deployment.

Verifying the RKE2 and Rancher deployment

Verify if you are able to log in to the Rancher UI using the username and password you configured at the time of deployment.
In the Rancher UI, validate if the Rancher cluster is listed in Clusters table with the name local at the home page.
Verify if all the attached nodes to the cluster are up and running by following the steps given below.
1. In the Rancher UI, click the menu icon at the top left corner, and then click Local.
2. Click Nodes.
3. Verify if all the nodes are in Active state and the roles assigned to each of them is set to Control Plane, Etcd.
Check the status of the Rancher pods by following the steps given below.
1. In the Rancher UI, click the menu icon at the top left corner, and then click Local.
2. Go to Workload > Pods.
3. In the Namespaces dropdown menu, select cattle-system.
  This lists all the pods in the cattle-system namespace.
4. Validate if all the listed pods are in Running state.

Verifying the deployment of Adeptia Connect application

Validate if the Adeptia Connect helm is deployed by following the steps given below.
1. Log in to the Rancher UI.
2. Click the menu icon at the top left corner, and then click Local.
3. Go to Apps > Installed Apps.
4. In the Installed Apps, verify if the chart entry for adeptia-connect is in Deployed state.
Check the status of the deployed pods of adeptia-connect by following the steps given below.
1. Log in to the Rancher UI.
2. Click the menu icon at the top left corner, and then click Local.
3. Go to Workload > Pods.
4. In the Namespaces dropdown menu, select the namespace to which you have deployed the Adeptia Connect application.
5. Validate if all the listed pods are in Running state.
Check the logs to see the status of the pods by following the steps given below.
1. Follow the steps from a through d.
2. Click the more options icon against the pod whose status you want to view, and then click View Logs.
3. Search for “Microservice started successfully” to validate if the pod was started successfully.
  The screenshot given below is an example that shows the status of the Runtime pod.
  Note: The status of runtime deployment manager and rabbitmq pods could not be viewed in their respective logs.
Follow the steps given below to check the status of the shared Runtime pod.
1. Follow the steps from a through d.
2. Verify if the pod for ac-runtime microservice is present and is in Running state.
Verify if you are able to log in to the Adeptia Connect application.
Verify if the shared NFS volumes are attached with required pods by following the steps given below.
1. Log in to the Rancher UI.
2. Click the menu icon at the top left corner, and then click Local.
3. Go to Workload > Deployments.
4. In the Namespaces dropdown menu, select the namespace to which you have deployed the Adeptia Connect application.
5. Click the deployment (link in the name column) for which you want to check the mounted volumes.
6. Select Config at the top-right corner.
7. Click Storage.
  A list of all the volumes that are mounted to the pods is displayed.
8. Follow the steps given below to check if the shared NFS volumes are attached to following pods:
  1. runtime
  2. event
  3. archival and cleanup
  4. portal
  5. webrunner
  6. listener

Verifying the deployment of EFK

Check the status of the EFK services pods' by following the steps given below.
1. Log in to the Rancher UI.
2. Click the menu icon at the top left corner, and then click Local.
3. Go to Workload > pods.
4. In the Namespaces dropdown menu, select logging.
5. Verify if all the pods are in Running state.
Verify if you are able to log in to the Kibana UI using the username elastic and the password you configured at the time of deployment.
Verify if the index pattern for all microservices is listed in Kibana UI by following the steps given below.
1. Log in to the Kibana UI.
2. Click the menu icon at top left corner.
3. Click Discover.
4. Click the Kibana index pattern dropdown.
5. Verify if the list of all the microservices deployed in adeptia-connect namespace is displayed.

Verifying the user Id (UID)

Follow the steps given below to check if the user Id 1000 is assigned to the system user or the user who has installed the Adeptia Connect Rancher package on cluster nodes.
1. Log in to the Jumpbox.
2. Access the cluster node (VM) by running the following command.
  ssh <nodename/IP>
3. View the passwd file by running the following command and verify if user Id 1000 is assigned to the user who has installed the Adeptia Connect Rancher package on cluster nodes.
  sudo cat /etc/passwd
  The screenshot given below is an example that shows user Id 1000 is assigned to the ec2-user.

If the user Id 1000 is being used by another user, refer to this document to swap the user Id.

Check if the user with assigned user Id 1000 is being used for running the Adeptia Connect Rancher processes on the cluster nodes by following the steps given below.
1. Log in to the Jumpbox.
2. Access the cluster node (VM) by running the following command.
  ssh <nodename/IP>
3. Run the following command to check if the user ID “1000“ is being used for running the Rancher processes.
  This displays all the Rancher processes.
4. Verify if the user with user Id 1000, for example ec2-user as shown in the following screenshot, is being used for running the Adeptia Connect Rancher processes.
  Note: Only a user with user Id 1000 or a root user must be used for running the Rancher processes.