This section describes how to start the Open edX Analytics developer stack (analytics devstack).
Log in to analytics devstack.
$ vagrant ssh
Switch to the edxapp user.
$ sudo su edxapp
Start the LMS.
$ paver devstack lms
Log in to analytics devstack.
$ vagrant ssh
Switch to the analytics_api user.
$ sudo su analytics_api
Start the Data API.
$ ~/venvs/analytics_api/bin/python ~/analytics_api/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8100 --insecure
Log in to analytics devstack.
$ vagrant ssh
Switch to the insights user.
$ sudo su insights
Enable features that are disabled by default.
$ ~/venvs/insights/bin/python ~/edx_analytics_dashboard/manage.py switch display_verified_enrollment on --create
$ ~/venvs/insights/bin/python ~/edx_analytics_dashboard/manage.py switch enable_course_api on --create
For a complete list of the waffle switches that are available, see Feature Gating.
Start Insights.
$ ~/venvs/insights/bin/python ~/edx_analytics_dashboard/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8110 --insecure
Open the URL http://127.0.0.1:8110 in a browser on the host.
Important
Be sure to use the IP address 127.0.0.1 instead of
localhost. Using localhost will prevent you from logging in.
In the Devstack LMS, register a new user and enroll in the demo course.
Navigate to the course body and submit answers to a few problems.
Navigate to the location where edx-analytics-pipeline project was cloned on the host.
$ cd edx-analytics-pipeline
Run the enrollment task.
$ export WHEEL_URL=http://edx-wheelhouse.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Ubuntu/precise
# On Mac OS X replace the date command below with $(date -v+1d +%Y-%m-%d)
$ remote-task --vagrant-path <path to `analyticstack`> --remote-name devstack --override-config ${PWD}/config/devstack.cfg --wheel-url $WHEEL_URL --wait \
ImportEnrollmentsIntoMysql --local-scheduler --interval-end $(date +%Y-%m-%d -d "tomorrow") --n-reduce-tasks 1
Run the answer distribution task.
$ export WHEEL_URL=http://edx-wheelhouse.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Ubuntu/precise
$ export UNIQUE_NAME=$(date +%Y-%m-%dT%H_%M_%SZ)
$ remote-task --vagrant-path <path to `analyticstack`> --remote-name devstack --override-config ${PWD}/config/devstack.cfg --wheel-url $WHEEL_URL --wait \
AnswerDistributionWorkflow --local-scheduler \
--src hdfs://localhost:9000/data/ \
--include '*tracking.log*' \
--dest hdfs://localhost:9000/edx-analytics-pipeline/output/answer_distribution_raw/$UNIQUE_NAME/data \
--name $UNIQUE_NAME \
--output-root hdfs://localhost:9000/edx-analytics-pipeline/output/answer_distribution/ \
--marker hdfs://localhost:9000/edx-analytics-pipeline/output/answer_distribution_raw/$UNIQUE_NAME/marker \
--n-reduce-tasks 1