I've been stuck on this for about a day. I downloaded and installed ElasticSearch 2.3.3 on my redhat vm. I am trying to follow the get started video on the site but not one of the installation commands from the video has worked for me, so I've tried following installation methods from the guide.
I downloaded the rpm and entered the following commands to install:
cd /usr/share/elasticsearch
bin/plugin -DproxyHost=... -DproxyPort=... install license
bin/plugin -DproxyHost=... -DproxyPort=... install marvel-agent
I then started my ElasticSearch node and went to localhost:9200/_plugin/marvel but nothing popped up.
I then thought it might be because I only downloaded the agent and not marvel, so I tried installing marvel from the cmd line, but I constantly getting a FileNotFound exception
bin/plugin -DproxyHost=... -DproxyPort=... install marvel
I then manually downloaded marvel-2.3.3.tar.gz and tried installing it manually
bin/plugin -DproxyHost=... -DproxyPort=... install --verbose file://.../marvel-2.3.3.tar.gz
but I'm told the zip is missing a plugin-descriptor.properties file
Verifying file:/home1/isuser/Downloads/marvel-2.3.3.tar.gz checksums if available ...
NOTE: Unable to verify checksum for downloaded plugin (unable to find .sha1 or .md5 file to verify)
ERROR: Could not find plugin descriptor 'plugin-descriptor.properties' in plugin zip
I then unzipped marvel-2.3.3.tar, added a .properties file, rezipped, and reinstalled. still got the same error.
I really need some help. This is very frustrating. I still need to install Kibana but if that installation is anything near as infuriating as this one I'm not looking forward to it...
EDIT:
I got past this error by moving the .properties file from within the marvel directory to the same level, but now I'm getting a new error. it keeps giving me a FileNotFoundException.
[root@den01ejm elasticsearch]# bin/plugin install -DproxyHost=www-proxy.us.oracle.com -DproxyPort=80 --verbose /home1/isuser/Desktop/up/marvel-2.3.3.tar.gz
-> Installing /home1/isuser/Desktop/up/marvel-2.3.3.tar.gz...
Trying https://download.elastic.co//home1/home1-isuser.zip ...
Failed: FileNotFoundException[https://download.elastic.co//home1/home1-isuser.zip]; nested: FileNotFoundException[https://download.elastic.co//home1/home1-isuser.zip];
Trying https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=/home1/isuser/home1-isuser.zip ...
Failed: FileNotFoundException[https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=/home1/isuser/home1-isuser.zip]; nested: FileNotFoundException[https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=/home1/isuser/home1-isuser.zip];
Trying https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/releases/content//home1/isuser/home1-isuser.zip ...
Failed: FileNotFoundException[https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/releases/content//home1/isuser/home1-isuser.zip]; nested: FileNotFoundException[https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/releases/content//home1/isuser/home1-isuser.zip];
Trying https://github.com//home1/archive/isuser.zip ...
Failed: FileNotFoundException[https://github.com//home1/archive/isuser.zip]; nested: FileNotFoundException[https://github.com//home1/archive/isuser.zip];
Trying https://github.com//home1/archive/master.zip ...
Failed: FileNotFoundException[https://github.com//home1/archive/master.zip]; nested: FileNotFoundException[https://github.com//home1/archive/master.zip];
ERROR: failed to download out of all possible locations..., use --verbose to get detailed information
cd /usr/share/elasticsearch
bin/plugin -DproxyHost=... -DproxyPort=... install license
bin/plugin -DproxyHost=... -DproxyPort=... install marvel-agent
This is all that needs to be installed in Elasticsearch 2.x to make Marvel monitor Elasticsearch. The Marvel Agent monitors the node, with a dependency on the license plugin, then ships the data where ever it's configured to go (to the same node, by default).
The third plugin that you're trying to install is the Marvel UI component. Starting with ES 2.x, the UI component is a part of Kibana and not Elasticsearch.
As such, you should be installing that plugin in Kibana. As you are trying to use Marvel 2.3.3, you should be using Kibana 4.5 (so Kibana 4.5.1 as of now). From Kibana, you can install it there:
bin/kibana plugin --install elasticsearch/marvel/latest
NOTE: The syntax of the plugin commands will change in Elasticsearch 5.x and Kibana 5.x and this will be greatly simplified to literally being the same file for both Elasticsearch and Kibana, but both applications will still be needed for both sides: monitoring and the UI.
bin/elasticsearch-plugin install x-pack
bin/kibana-plugin install x-pack