Please note that the software versions referenced in this document might have changed and might not be available/working unless updated.
Ensure you have correct date/time and NTPd running to keep it accurate!
All commands should be run as root or through sudo.
zypper install java-11-openjdk-headless wget
wget https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb-1.8.10.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh influxdb-1.8.10.x86_64.rpm
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable influxdb
systemctl start influxdb
If you are running Linux on Power, you can find ppc64le InfluxDB packages on the Power DevOps site. Remember to pick the 1.8 or 1.9 version.
Run the influx
cli command and create the hmci database.
CREATE DATABASE "hmci" WITH DURATION 365d REPLICATION 1;
wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana-9.1.7-1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh --nodeps grafana-9.1.7-1.x86_64.rpm
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable grafana-server
systemctl start grafana-server
If you are running Linux on Power, you can find ppc64le Grafana packages on the Power DevOps site.
Download the latest version of HMCi packaged for rpm.
rpm -ivh hmci-2.0.2-1_all.rpm
Now modify /etc/hmci.toml (edit URL and credentials to your HMCs) and test the setup by running /opt/hmci/bin/hmci -d
in the foreground/terminal and look for any errors.
Press CTRL+C to stop and then start as a background service with systemctl start hmci
.
You can see the log/output by running journalctl -f -u hmci
.