Installing and Configuring Alfresco Community Edition: A Comprehensive Guide — Parto 01

Deploying Alfresco Community Edition can be a complex process, but with the right steps, you can have a fully functional content management system up and running. This guide walks you through the setup of Samba shared disks, deployment of Alfresco Content Services using Ansible, and configuration of HAProxy for load balancing and session persistence.

ECM Storage Configuration

• Install Required Packages

dnf install cifs-utils -y
dnf install samba -y

• Firewall Configuration

Add Samba service to the firewall (permanent) and reload firewall:

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=samba firewall-cmd --reload

LVM Partition and Group Creation

Steps:

• Create a new Partition using fdisk /dev/sdb tool and select partition type LVM

Command: n
Select: p (primary)
Partition number: 1
First sector: use default value
Last sector: use default value
Command: t
Selected partition: 1
Hex code: 8e

• Selected partition: 1
• Hex code: 8e

• Initialize the partition /dev/sdb1 as an LVM physical volume

pvcreate /dev/sdb1

• Useful commands:

lvmdiskscan //Scanning for Block Devices

pvdisplay //Displaying Physical Volumes

pvscan //Scans all supported LVM block devices

• Create volume group name vg_newlvm and add /dev/sdb1 partition into the group:

vgcreate vg_newlvm /dev/sdb1

• Create a logical volume called centos7_newvol that uses all of the unallocated space in the volume group vg_newlvm:

lvcreate --name centos7_newvol -l 100%FREE vg_newlvm

• Display the created logical volumes:

lvdisplay

• Format a newly created LVM with mkfs command:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg_newlvm/centos7_newvol

• Create the mount point and mount the new LVM:

mkdir -p /data
mount /dev/vg_newlvm/centos7_newvol /data

Samba Configuration

• Create a directory on the server to hold your shared files and folders (data).

* Create Samba user and system user:

useradd smb-user
groupadd smb-grp
usermod -aG smb-grp smb-user
smbpasswd -a smb-user

Change the folder permissions and owner:

chmod 770 /data
chown smb-user.smb-grp /data

Change the SELinux context to samba_share_t:

semanage fcontext --add --type "samba_share_t" "/data(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /data

Note: Backup Samba config file before editing.

Samba config:

[shared] # samba_shared_config  
   path = /data # folder_path - mounted   
   read only = no     
   writable = yes  
   browseable = yes    
   guest ok = no     
   valid users = @smb-user # samba user

Restart Samba service:

systemctl restart smb

ECM Instance Configuration

Install Required Packages

dnf install -y cifs-utils

Create folder to be mounted with shared disk

mkdir /mnt/data

Auto mount the folder in fstab file

Edit /etc/fstab to add:

//ECM_STORAGE_IP_ADDR/shared  /mnt/data  cifs  user=ecm_storage,password=ecm_storage@,rw,uid=996,gid=992 0 0

Reboot System

reboot

Part 02 : https://medium.com/p/8a95c6fbf11

Part 03 : https://medium.com/p/bcde44232f59