I've been attempting to experiment with the recently updated Solr Scale Tool Kit mentioned here:
http://searchhub.org/2014/06/03/introducing-the-solr-scale-toolkit/ After making the very well documented configuration changes at AWS and installing Python, I was able to use the toolkit to connect to AWS; however, when the demo command (fab demo:demo1,n=1) is executed, the following access denied error message is returned: C:\Temp\sk\solr-scale-tk>fab demo:demo1,n=1 ←[33mGoing to launch 1 new EC2 m3.medium instances using AMI ami-1e6b9d76←[0m ←[32mSetup Instance store BlockDeviceMapping: /dev/sdb -> ephemeral0←[0m Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\fabric\main.py", line 743, in main *args, **kwargs File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\fabric\tasks.py", line 405, in execute results['<local-only>'] = task.run(*args, **new_kwargs) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\fabric\tasks.py", line 171, in run return self.wrapped(*args, **kwargs) File "C:\Temp\sk\solr-scale-tk\fabfile.py", line 1314, in demo ec2hosts = new_ec2_instances(cluster=demoCluster, n=n, instance_type=instance_type) File "C:\Temp\sk\solr-scale-tk\fabfile.py", line 776, in new_ec2_instances placement_group=placement_group) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\boto\ec2\connection.py", line 943, in run_instances verb='POST') File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\boto\connection.py", line 1177, in get_object raise self.ResponseError(response.status, response.reason, body) boto.exception.EC2ResponseError: EC2ResponseError: 400 Bad Request <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Response><Errors><Error><Code>AuthFailure</Code><Message>Not authorized for images: [ami-1e6b9d76]</Message></Error></Errors><RequestID>cbdcb582-3d21-4fab-a7ea -fe68ba696e23</RequestID></Response> My guess is that the customized toolkit AMI (ami-1e6b9d76) at AWS is not accessible by my AWS credentials. Is this an AMI permissioning issue or is it a problem with my particular account or how it is configured at AWS. I did not experience this specific problem when working with the previous iteration of the Solr Scale Toolkit back toward the latter part of May. It appears that the AMI was updated from ami-96779efe to ami-1e6b9d76 with the newest version of the toolkit. Many thanks to Timothy Potter to assembling this excellent toolkit for deploying and managing SolrCloud at AWS (and hopefully other cloud providers in the future). Thanks. Mark Gershman
