rough shell script and instructions for setting up a fully usable Blackboard DEV instance

add and populate Blackboard VM

mkdir my-blackboard-dir/
cd my-blackboard-dir

# put the box file in this folder
cp/mv my-blackboard-vm.box . #from wherever

vagrant box add my-blackboard-vm.box --name NameForMyBox 
vagrant plugin install vagrant-triggers

# add the Vagrantfile below

#setup a REST application at https://developer.blackboard.com/portal/applications
#login to your blackboard instance and setup LTI and REST application

user: administrator
password: password

# Mark O'Neil's python magic
git clone git@github.com:blackboard/BBDN-LearnObjectGen_Python.git

virtualenv -p `which python3` BBDN-LearnObjectGen_Python/
source bin/activate
python learnObjectGen.py -t localhost:9877

# IMPORTANT - finally, take a snapshot of the populated BB instance, 
# the posgres database seems to get corrupted very easily, so you can always revert to the clean snapshot.
### Vagrantfile ####


Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "4096"]
  end

  config.trigger.before :halt do
       info "Stopping Blackboard Learn, Tomcant and Postgres before destroying the VM..."
       run_remote  "sudo bash /usr/local/blackboard/tools/admin/ServiceController.sh services.stop"
  end

  config.ssh.password = "vagrant"

  config.vm.box = 'BlackboardLearn-Apr17'
  config.vm.box_url = 'bb-learn-9.1-Q4-2016/bb-learn-9.1-Q4-2016.box'

  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "172.28.128.3", virtualbox__intnet: true
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 8080, host: 9876
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 8443, host: 9877
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 2222, host: 9878
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 5432, host: 9879
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 25, host: 2525

  config.vm.provision "shell",
      inline: "sudo /usr/local/blackboard/tools/admin/ServiceController.sh services.start"

end