[1.2] Kibana dashboard errors with default index not set.

[William Irons]

After installing opsmgr 1.2 and logging into the Kibana dashbboard, only the top menu bar for Kibana is displayed. The majority of the UI is completely blank. Trying to switch to the discover tab or dashboard tabs errors with a message stating the default index is not set.

This was broken by the commit to force the logstash template be imported into elasticsearch: https://github.com/open-power-ref-design/opsmgr/commit/874f872f8408ace84f2d0ebe0aa42a95e7e76dd2

and can be fixed by manually setting logstash to be the default index by running these two commands on any controller node:

curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/.kibana/index-pattern/logstash-*?op_type=create -d '{"title" : "logstash-*", "timeFieldName": "@timestamp"}'
curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/.kibana/config/4.6.3 -d '{"defaultIndex" : "logstash-*"}'

[William Irons (wdirons)]

This was fixed with commit https://github.com/open-power-ref-design/opsmgr/commit/0b7f3adcf57c06bfc0a74057e2e25e8d14e1b099 on 2016-12-09. It is available in branch-v1 but not in a tag version.