400 Bad Request when using solrcloud

Question

Can anybody help me i want to create a solrcloud on aws using this code https://github.com/LucidWorks/solr-scale-tk i try to build using cmd [fab demo:demo1,n=1] getting below error I'm getting this while pulling instances after connection to amazon server.

ERROR: boto.exception.EC2ResponseError: EC2ResponseError: 400 Bad Request

Appreciate your help

thanks in advance

 root@adminuser-VirtualBox:/opt/febric/solr-scale-tk# fab demo:demo1,n=1 Going to launch 1 new EC2 m3.medium instances using AMI ami-8d52b9e6 Setup Instance store BlockDeviceMapping: /dev/sdb -> ephemeral0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fabric/main.py", line 743, in main *args, **kwargs File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fabric/tasks.py", line 427, in execute results['<local-only>'] = task.run(*args, **new_kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fabric/tasks.py", line 174, in run return self.wrapped(*args, **kwargs) File "/opt/febric/solr-scale-tk/fabfile.py", line 1701, in demo ec2hosts = new_ec2_instances(cluster=demoCluster, n=n, instance_type=instance_type) File "/opt/febric/solr-scale-tk/fabfile.py", line 1163, in new_ec2_instances placement_group=placement_group) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto/ec2/connection.py", line 973, in run_instances verb='POST') File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto/connection.py", line 1208, in get_object raise self.ResponseError(response.status, response.reason, body) boto.exception.EC2ResponseError: EC2ResponseError: 400 Bad Request <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Response><Errors><Error><Code>InvalidParameterValue</Code><Message>Value () for parameter groupId is invalid. The value cannot be empty</Message></Error></Errors><RequestID>ca03b6d4-ce0e-46d3-99e3-ccad4a43c4ff</RequestID></Response> 

Answer 1

You need to create a security group at your region with the name exactly called "solr-scale-tk" and has the required ports opened up. Please refer to this blog and follow the instructions in Setup Amazon Account part.