lyft/Cartography on EC2, is it possible?

Question

I've been trying to Run cartography on my EC2 account for the last 2 days. I have no previous knowledge of Neo4j, But following their installation process doesn't work.

First I've tried to install Neo4j using rpm instructions for Neo4J website, no success acessing Neo4j on port 7474. Error: Connection refused.

Then I gave up trying to make Neo4J work on an EC2 installation, and used their MarketPlace AMi- Works Like a charm but I don't know what is being installed on that AMI. So I decided to install and run cartography on this instance. My first problem was installing python, pip and java correctly. After everything working, I've discovered neo4j bolt port used my public IP, not my localhost. After thatI was able to finally execute Cartography, but Not it's giving me the following error:

neobolt.exceptions.ClientError: Supplied bookmark [FB:kcwQ40omSYgvSzKPpCQTXDOcCBSQ] does not conform to pattern neo4j:bookmark:v1:tx

Have Anyone really was able to use this?, every step along the way requires some specific libraries.

Thanks !

Answer 1

I maintain cartography and hope I can help (wish I saw this earlier though haha)

Few things to check:

• Are you using Neo4j 4.x? cartography currently only supports 3.5.x.

• To run for one AWS account,

  AWS_PROFILE=profilename cartography --neo4j-uri <uri for your neo4j instance; usually bolt://localhost:7687>`
  

• To run multiple accounts, set up an AWS config file and run

  AWS_CONFIG_FILE=/path/to/your/aws/config cartography --neo4j-uri <uri for your neo4j instance; usually bolt://localhost:7687> --aws-sync-all-profiles
  

  (see https://github.com/lyft/cartography/blob/master/docs/setup/install.md#cartography-installation)

If you have more questions feel free to open a GitHub issue or start a thread on our Slack (can talk about more specialized setups like if you're using containers or anything like that too)