Installation

This page document a quick way of installing the agent. For production system, you may want to use trusted certificate and other enhancement.

Prerequisites

In order to run temBoard agent, you need:

  • Linux as underlying OS.
  • PostgreSQL 9.4+, listening on UNIX socket. Check with sudo -u postgres psql.
  • openssl.
  • Python 2.6+ or 3.5+. Check with python --version.
  • A running temBoard UI.
  • bash, curl and sudo for setup script.

Note

The temBoard agent must run on the same host as the PostgreSQL instance. Running an agent on a remote host is not yet supported.

Now choose the method matching best your target environment.

Debian

temBoard debs are published on Dalibo Labs APT repository. temBoard agent supports Debian buster and stretch. Start by enabling Dalibo Labs APT repository.

# echo deb http://apt.dalibo.org/labs $(lsb_release -cs)-dalibo main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dalibo-labs.list
# curl https://apt.dalibo.org/labs/debian-dalibo.asc | apt-key add -
# apt update -y  # You may use apt-get here.

You can install now temBoard agent with:

# apt install temboard-agent
# temboard-agent --version

RHEL / CentOS

temBoard RPM are published on Dalibo Labs YUM repository. temBoard agent supports RHEL/CentOS 7 and 8. Start by enabling Dalibo Labs YUM repository.

$ sudo yum install -y https://yum.dalibo.org/labs/dalibo-labs-2-1.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum makecache fast

Warning

Do NOT use temBoard agent rpm from PGDG. They are known to be broken.

With the YUM repository configured, you can install temBoard agent with:

$ sudo yum install temboard-agent
$ temboard-agent --version
Offline install

Some production infrastructure are offline for security reasons. In this situation, the temboard-agent package and its dependencies can be dowloaded with the following commands :

$ sudo yum install yum-utils
$ yumdownloader --resolve --destdir /tmp/temboard-packages temboard-agent

Then the downloaded packages can be transfered to the production server and installed with

$ yum --disablerepo=* localinstall *.rpm

PyPI

temBoard agent wheel and source tarball are published on PyPI.

Installing from PyPI requires Python2.6+, pip and wheel. It\'s better to have a recent version of pip. For Python 2.6, you will need some backports libraries.

$ sudo pip install temboard-agent
$ sudo pip2.6 install logutils argparse  # Only for Python 2.6
$ temboard-agent --version

Note where is installed temBoard agent and determine the prefix. You must find a share/temboard-agent folder in e.g /usr or /usr/local. If temBoard agent is installed in /usr/local, please adapt the documentation to match this system prefix.

Setup one instance

To finish the installation, you will need to follow the next steps for each Postgres instance on the host:

  • configure the agent;
  • add a first user;
  • start the agent;
  • finally register it in the UI.

The quickest way to setup temBoard agent is to use the auto_configure.sh script, installed in /usr/share/temboard-agent.

You must run this script as root, with PG* env vars set to connect to the Postgres cluster you want to manage. By default, the script uses postgres UNIX user to connect to Postgres cluster.

Note

Each agent is identified by the fully qualified hostname. If hostname --fqdn can\'t resolve the FQDN of your HOST, simply overwrite it using TEMBOARD_HOSTNAME envvar. Remember that localhost or even a short hostname is not enough. auto_configure.sh enforces this.

# /usr/share/temboard-agent/auto_configure.sh

The script shows you some important information for the next steps:

  • the path to the main agent configuration file like /etc/temboard-agent/11/main/temboard-agent.conf

Note

Some parts of the configuration are in /etc/temboard-agent/11/main/temboard-agent.conf.d/auto.conf too and override the main configuration file.

  • agent TCP port (usually 2345 if this is your first agent on this host)
  • secret key for registration like d52cb5d39d265f03ae570e1847b90e10.

You will need these information later. Keep them near. Now create a first user (specific to this agent) using temboard-agent-adduser. Later, once the agent is registered, you will need to authenticate against the agent with this user from the UI to interact with the agent.

# sudo -u postgres temboard-agent-adduser -c /etc/temboard-agent/11/main/temboard-agent.conf

Adapt the configuration file name to match the one created by auto_configure.sh.

Now start the agent using the command suggested by auto_configure.sh. On most systems now, it\'s a systemd service:

# systemctl start temboard-agent@11-main

Check that it has started successfully:

# systemctl status temboard-agent@11-main

Now you can register the agent in the UI using temboard-agent-register. It needs the configuration file path, the agent host and port and the path to the temBoard UI.:

# sudo -u postgres temboard-agent-register -c /etc/temboard-agent/11/main/temboard-agent.conf --groups default https://temboard-ui.lan:8888

temboard-agent-register will ask you to login to the UI (eg. admin if you\'ve kept the default temBoard user). Beware, it is NOT the user set on the agent.

It's up!

Congratulation! You can continue on the UI and see the agent appeared, and monitoring data being graphed.

You can repeat the above setup for each instance on the same host.

Cleaning agent installation

If you need to clean a single agent installation either to uninstall it or to run auto_configure.sh again, use purge.sh with cluster name.

# /usr/share/temboard-agent/share/purge.sh 12/main
Stopping and disabling systemd service.
Removed /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/temboard-agent@12-main.service.
Cleaning files and directories...
removed '/etc/temboard-agent/12/main/temboard-agent.conf'
removed '/etc/temboard-agent/12/main/temboard-agent.conf.d/auto.conf'
removed directory '/etc/temboard-agent/12/main/temboard-agent.conf.d'
removed '/etc/temboard-agent/12/main/users'
removed directory '/etc/temboard-agent/12/main/'
removed directory '/var/lib/temboard-agent/12/main/'
temBoard agent 12-main stopped and cleaned.
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