Create a Spring Insight template

Question

I am just listing here the basic steps to create a Spring Insight web application using Spring tcServer developer edition. I haven't found much doco regarding this, so it could help some people.

1 - Download Spring Tool Suite here Download STS

Extract the archive somewhere on your machine, open a terminal and go to ~/tc-server-developer-[VERSION]/

2 - Run the following commands

./tcruntime-instance.sh create -t insight myInstance

This one creates a new tcServer instance based on the template insight. (full list of templates can be found in ~/tc-server-developer-[VERSION]/templates/)

Go to ~/tc-server-developer-[VERSION]/myInstance/bin/ and run the following

./tcruntime-ctl.sh start

This will start your tcServer instance based on the Spring Insight template. Check it is working by pointing your favourite browser to the URL http://localhost:8080/insight. That should display the Spring Insight index page.

Now you just have to drop your web app in the ~/tc-server-developer-[VERSION]/myInstance/webapps/ folder and Bob's your uncle !

Answer 1

You can find more details here: http://pubs.vmware.com/vfabric5/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vfabric.tc-server.2.6/devedition/install.html&path=2_3_1_0

Answer 2

Also wanted to mention how to set this up from the IDE without having to do any command line work
Assuming you have a spring mvc project open already in STS. This took a while to find so thank you for posting.

• Add a new server from the servers window. Select the VFabric tcServer
• Create new instance
• When you get to the part where it asks you to select a template pick the insight template.
• Add you app to the server you just created
• Start the server
• You will be prompted if youwant to activate insight, click yes.
• Navigate to localhost:8080/insight or whatever port it is running on.