SnapCreator and Linux

ricardoduarte — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:45:25 GMT

Hi there,

I'm currently setting up SnapCreator server on Linux.

Unfortunately there seems like no init script is provided with it.

My question is what daemon/command should I run when the machine starts to enable the snapcreator scheduler.

Regards.

SnapCreator and Linux

Arora_Kapil — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:24:16 GMT

Looks like you want to start the GUI.

Steps:

1) cd to scServer directory

2) execute ./snapcreator --profile setup

3) complete the setup

4) cd to gui folder under scServer

5) execute java -jar snapcreator.jar

6) Now you can access snapcreator GUI in a browser http://localhost:8080/ by using the username/pwd entered during profile setup.

Thanks,

Kapil

Re: SnapCreator and Linux

v_kiehn — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:15:05 GMT

Here my script to start the snapcreator gui during server startup. I'm using RHEL, so I deleted the init configuration for SLES. If you are using SLES, delete the RHEL init configuration. I never checked the SLES configuration, but iit should be run. Maybe you have to change a little bit for other distributions.

Be careul to use another running environment than root. Most Jobs will run but at least the vSphere plugin needs root priviledges because it is using icmp ping to check the availability of the vSphere server.

#!/bin/sh

# snapcreator-gui This shell script takes care of starting and stopping

# snapcreator gui server.

# ---- DO NOT REMOVE !!! The following comments needed by RHEL ----

# chkconfig: 2345 95 5

# description: snapcreator framework gui server

# processname: snapcreator-gui

# ---- DO NOT REMOVE !!! The following comments needed by RHEL ----

# ---- DO NOT REMOVE !!! The following comments needed by SUSE ----

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: snapcreator-gui

# Required-Start: $network

# Should-Start: $all

# Required-Stop: $all

# Default-Start: 3 5

# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 3 5 6

# Description: snapcreator framework gui server

### END INIT INFO

# ---- DO NOT REMOVE !!! The above comments needed by SUSE --------

export SnapCreGUI=/opt/NetApp/snapcreator/scServer/gui

export SnapCreJAR=snapcreator.jar

export SnapCreLOG=/opt/NetApp/snapcreator/scServer/logs/snapcreator-javaserver.log

export SnapCrePORT=8085

#export SnapCreUSER=snapcrea

export SnapCreUSER=root

function usage()

{

echo "Call: $0 start|stop|restart|status"

exit 1

}

function is_running()

{

SnapCrePID=$(ps -ef | grep 'java -jar snapcreator.jar' | grep -v grep | awk ' { printf "%s ",$2 }')

echo "$SnapCrePID" | sed -e 's/ $//g'

}

function status_snapcreator()

{

if [ $(is_running) ]

then echo -e "snapcreator gui server is running with pid $(is_running)."

else echo -e "snapcreator gui server is not running."

}

function start_snapcreator()

{

echo -e "start snapcreater gui server: \c"

if [ $(is_running) ]

then

echo -e "snapcreator gui server is running with pid $(is_running). Nothing to do."

else

if [ -f $SnapCreGUI/$SnapCreJAR ]

then

su - $SnapCreUSER -c "cd $SnapCreGUI; java -jar $SnapCreJAR -gui_port $SnapCrePORT >$SnapCreLOG 2>&1 &"

sleep 10

if [ $(is_running) ]

then

echo -e "running with pid $(is_running)"

else

echo -e "snapcreator gui server is not startable, see Logfile $SnapCreLOG"

exit 1

else

echo -e "$SnapCreGUI/$SnapCreJAR missing"

exit 1

}

function stop_snapcreator()

{

echo -e "stop snapcreater gui server: \c"

if ! [ $(is_running) ]

then

echo -e "snapcreator gui server is not running. Nothing to do."

else

kill $(is_running)

sleep 10

if [ $(is_running) ]

then

echo "Killing java with -9"

kill -9 $(is_running)

else

echo "done"

rm -rf /tmp/Jetty_0_0_0_0_8085_snapcreator*

}

case "$1" in

start) start_snapcreator

;;

stop) stop_snapcreator

;;

restart) stop_snapcreator

sleep 5

start_snapcreator

;;

status) status_snapcreator

;;

*) echo -e "\nmissing or wrong parameter"

usage

;;

esac

exit 0

Regards

Volker

Re: SnapCreator and Linux

ktenzer — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:36:18 GMT

Hi Volker,

Thanks for contributing this. I added this to a github repository where all the Snap Creator source code is called SC-MISC. I hope this is ok? I put your name as author.

https://github.com/NetApp/SC-MISC/tree/main/scripts/start-scripts

If you are partner you can sign up for our developer community @ www.snapcreator.com. End customers still dont have hae access but we are working on adding this soon. In future if you have any other scripts or addons feel free to upload them to the SC-MISC repository in github.

Again thanks, this is really great!

Keith

SnapCreator and Linux

v_kiehn — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:13:59 GMT

I'm end customer, so I have no access, but it is no problem

regards Volker

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