Unable to create openwhisk trigger on ubuntu local machine with /whisk.system/alarms/alarm feed - openwhisk

Question

I was able to install the system package for alarms successfully, mostly following the link https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-package-alarms/issues/51#issuecomment-294010619
So, I get the following:
bin/wsk package get --summary /whisk.system/alarms --insecure
package /whisk.system/alarms: Alarms and periodic utility
(parameters: *apihost, *cron, *trigger_payload)
feed /whisk.system/alarms/alarm: Fire trigger when alarm occurs
(parameters: none defined)
Features like actions, triggers, rules are working on my local openwhisk installation.
I am running the command to create a trigger as follows:
bin/wsk trigger create convertTriggerPeriodic --feed /whisk.system/alarms/alarm -p cron "*/9 * * * * *" -p trigger_payload "{\"name\":\"Odin\",\"place\":\"Asgard\"}" -p maxTriggers 6 --insecure
ok: invoked /whisk.system/alarms/alarm with id d5879ab1c97745c9879ab1c977c5c967
{
"activationId": "d5879ab1c97745c9879ab1c977c5c967",
"annotations": [
{
"key": "limits",
"value": {
"logs": 10,
"memory": 256,
"timeout": 60000
}
},
{
"key": "path",
"value": "whisk.system/alarms/alarm"
}
],
"duration": 6402,
"end": 1508984964595,
"logs": [],
"name": "alarm",
"namespace": "guest",
"publish": false,
"response": {
"result": {
"error": {
"code": 30810,
"error": "There was an error processing your request."
}
},
"status": "application error",
"success": false
},
"start": 1508984958193,
"subject": "guest",
"version": "0.0.2"
}
ok: invoked /whisk.system/alarms/alarm with id 4fd67308821e4e0b967308821e4e0bdb
{
"activationId": "4fd67308821e4e0b967308821e4e0bdb",
"annotations": [
{
"key": "limits",
"value": {
"logs": 10,
"memory": 256,
"timeout": 60000
}
},
{
"key": "path",
"value": "whisk.system/alarms/alarm"
}
],
"duration": 4432,
"end": 1508984969257,
"logs": [],
"name": "alarm",
"namespace": "guest",
"publish": false,
"response": {
"result": {
"error": {
"code": 30822,
"error": "There was an error processing your request."
}
},
"status": "application error",
"success": false
},
"start": 1508984964825,
"subject": "guest",
"version": "0.0.2"
}
ok: deleted trigger convertTriggerPeriodic
Run 'wsk --help' for usage.
It is running the trigger twice. Each time, it is reporting error: "error": "There was an error processing your request." Then it is deleting the trigger.
So there is no way I can associate a rule /action with the trigger.

Answer 1

It looks like the alarms action was not installed properly. The directions listed in https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-package-alarms/issues/51 still work for running the alarms docker container, but are out-of-date for installing the action. Please see the comment I had made on July 21 (https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-package-alarms/issues/51#issuecomment-317007147) in this issue. The parameters for installCatalog.sh have changed. If you are having trouble following the install steps in this issue you can also checkout the comment I had left on August 9th (https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-package-alarms/issues/51#issuecomment-321320242). It contains a link to some ansible code I had written to handle the install for you.