temBoard agent installation from rpm package on RHEL / CentOS 5 and later

Package repository setup

RHEL / CentOS 5

Install the packages.temboard.io repository by creating the /etc/yum.repos.d/temboard.repo file with the following contents:

[temboard]
name=temBoard Packages for Enterprise Linux 5
baseurl=https://packages.temboard.io/yum/rhel5/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

RHEL / CentOS 6

Install the packages.temboard.io repository by creating the /etc/yum.repos.d/temboard.repo file with the following contents:

[temboard]
name=temBoard Packages for Enterprise Linux 6
baseurl=https://packages.temboard.io/yum/rhel6/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

RHEL / CentOS 7

Install the packages.temboard.io repository by creating the /etc/yum.repos.d/temboard.repo file with the following contents:

[temboard]
name=temBoard Packages for Enterprise Linux 7
baseurl=https://packages.temboard.io/yum/rhel7/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Installation

With the YUM repositories set up, the temBoard agent can be installed with yum:

yum install temboard-agent

Configuration

Before starting the agent, see doc/temboard-agent-configuration.md for post-installation tasks.

Operations

Important files and directories

  • /etc/temboard-agent: stores the temboard-agent.conf configuration file and SSL certificates
  • /var/lib/temboard-agent: stores the data of the agent
  • /var/log/temboard-agent: stores the logs
  • /var/run/temboard-agent: stores the PID file

Start the agent

On RHEL / CentOS 5 and 6:

sudo service temboard-agent start

On RHEL / CentOS 7:

sudo systemctl start temboard-agent

Start at boot time

On RHEL / CentOS 5 and 6:

chkconfig temboard-agent on

On RHEL / CentOS 7:

systemctl enable temboard-agent

Status

On RHEL / CentOS 6:

ps auxf | grep temboard-agent

On RHEL / CentOS 7:

systemctl status temboard-agent

Reload configuration

On RHEL / CentOS 6:

service temboard-agent reload

On RHEL / CentOS 7:

systemctl reload temboard-agent

Stop

On RHEL / CentOS 6:

service temboard-agent stop

On RHEL / CentOS 7:

systemctl stop temboard-agent