How to update the value of apigee.mgmt.baseUrl in apigee.conf?

[paulmooney]

My second MS node somehow had set the apigee.mgmt.baseUrl with IP address, whereas I believe I had set it with FQDN.

I'd like the value to match my other installations, by changing:

apigee.mgmt.baseUrl="IP:8080/v1"

to

apigee.mgmt.baseUrl="FQDN:8080/v1"

How can I do this? Possible to do outside of adding apigee.mgmt.baseUrl to management-server.properties file?

What I believe the solution to be is remove management server component from node - reinstall with code with config.

[yuriyl · Accepted solution]

The CWC is indeed the key to change this [and many other] setting(s).

The installation process has set up the value of apigee.mgmt.baseUrl in the

/opt/apigee/token/application/ui.properties

file as:

conf_apigee_apigee.mgmt.baseurl="http://<value-from-silent-conf-file>:8080/v1"

You do not need to remove the component. It is sufficient to edit silent config file and re-running install command.

You can also directly edit that file and restart UI.

You also can create

/opt/apigee/customer/application/ui.properties

file and add:

conf_apigee_apigee.mgmt.baseurl="http://FQDN:8080/v1"

line. Then restart UI. It will pick up the override.

As you're talking about second MS node, I presume you plan to set up a load balancer in front of your MS nodes.

Usage of /opt/apigee/customer/application/ui.properties file is the right way to reconfigure UI to connect to MSs via LBs for HA/DR.

For details, see: https://docs.apigee.com/private-cloud/v4.19.01/how-configure-edge

[paulmooney]

I understand the best practice is to set/override configured values in /token/application with <component>.properties files at /customer/application/<component>.properties.

It is good to know, in certain instances, it is possible to change values within /token/application/ui.properties.

I wasn't sure how rerunning setup with updated cwc file would work (example: would it try to setup the cassandra and zookeeper clients again, etc.). Without knowing this, I believed updating the value of conf_apigee_apigee.mgmt.baseurl within token/application/ui.properties was the best solution.

Thank you, I updated the value to match my what I thought I had configured (what had existed in cwc), "http://FQDN:8080/v1", and apigee ui continues to work as expected.

I appreciate your time.