Issue
The application deployed and First-Time setup was successful, however unable to proceed further with the Admin App settings page.
Cause
Admin App secret configuration and/or Azure SQL configuration values became corrupted for whatever reason.
Steps for Recovering the Application
1) Force Admin App's First-Time Setup
On this step, we need to clear all the data records created during first time setup.
- Please make sure to stop ODS API and Admin App websites on the Azure portal
Ex: EdFiOdsApiWebSite-{environment}-{resourceGroupid}
EdFiOdsAdminAppWebSite-{environment}-{resourceGroupid}
Can be restarted after once the sql commands executed successfully.
- Connect to Azure sql server on SSMS or use Azure query editor
- Select the EdFi_Admin database
- Execute the following sql commands for clearing all the data records created during first time setup process
BEGIN TRAN DECLARE @ApplicationId INT; SELECT @ApplicationId = ApplicationId FROM dbo.Applications WHERE ApplicationName = 'Ed-Fi ODS Admin App' DELETE FROM dbo.ClientAccessTokens WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM dbo.ApiClients WHERE ClientAccessTokens.ApiClient_ApiClientId = ApiClients.ApiClientId AND Application_ApplicationId = @ApplicationId ) DELETE FROM dbo.ApiClients WHERE Application_ApplicationId = @ApplicationId DELETE FROM dbo.ApplicationEducationOrganizations WHERE Application_ApplicationId = @ApplicationId DELETE FROM dbo.ProfileApplications WHERE Application_ApplicationId = @ApplicationId DELETE FROM dbo.Applications WHERE ApplicationId = @ApplicationId DELETE FROM dbo.OdsInstances DELETE FROM adminapp.SecretConfigurations COMMIT TRAN
2) Update/Re-deploy just Admin app on Azure
Deployed pages and resources can be accessed on Azure portal.
https://www.gslab.com/blogs/kudu-azure-web-app
Note: That older versions of Admin app need the presence of “SetupRequired” file. This indicates to the first time setup process that it has not run. If the file not present, this means that the first-time setup was completed. Recreating the file will enforce the First time setup process to run again.
To create this file just create text file with the name “SetupRequired” and set the content of it to: Placeholder file to let the AdminApp know additional setup of the system is required.
On Azure proceed to restart the application. Once the restart has finished use your web browser and navigate to the Admin App URL. You should be able to continue the First time setup.
References
If you have any questions on how to connect to the EdFi-Admin database please refer to this articles below:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/connect-query-portal
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/connect-query-ssms