Install MariaDB Agent Manager with MariaDB Shell

Overview

The MariaDB Agent Manager coordinates deployment of the agents needed to consolidate and push data to the Remote Observability Service.

MariaDB Agent Manager transmits monitoring metrics and topology status data to the Remote Observability Service.

MariaDB Agent Manager can be installed using MariaDB Shell.

Compatibility

MariaDB Products

  • MariaDB Enterprise ColumnStore 5

  • MariaDB Enterprise ColumnStore 6

  • MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.3

  • MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4

  • MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5

  • MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.6

  • MariaDB MaxScale 2.4

  • MariaDB MaxScale 2.5

  • MariaDB MaxScale 6

  • MariaDB Xpand 5.3

  • MariaDB Xpand 6

Operating Systems

  • CentOS 7

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  • Rocky Linux 8

  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Step 1: Install MariaDB Shell

On each Forwarding Host and Monitored Host, install MariaDB Shell.

For information on how to install MariaDB Shell, see "MariaDB Shell".

Step 2: Switch to Dedicated OS User

For security purposes, MariaDB does not recommend running MariaDB Agent Manager as root.

On each Forwarding Host and Monitored Host, if you created a dedicated user account and group for MariaDB Agent Manager, switch to a shell using the dedicated user account:

$ su -l mariadbagent

Each of the subsequent steps in this procedure should be performed using this dedicated user account.

Step 3: Install MariaDB Agent Manager

On each Forwarding Host and Monitored Host, install MariaDB Agent Manager using the ros install command:

$ mariadb-shell ros install