hmci/doc/readme-debian.md

Instruction for Debian / Ubuntu Systems

Please note that the software versions referenced in this document might have changed and might not be available/working unless updated.

More details are available in the README.md file.

Install the Java Runtime from repository

sudo apt-get install default-jre-headless

Download and Install InfluxDB

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb_1.8.10_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i influxdb_1.8.10_amd64.deb
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable influxdb
sudo systemctl start influxdb

Run the influx cli command and create the hmci database.

Download and Install Grafana

sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1
wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana_9.1.3_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_9.1.3_amd64.deb
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable grafana-server
sudo systemctl start grafana-server

When logged in to Grafana (port 3000, admin/admin) create a datasource that points to the local InfluxDB. Now import the provided dashboards.

Download and Install HMCi

wget https://bitbucket.org/mnellemann/hmci/downloads/hmci_1.3.1-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i hmci_1.3.1-1_all.deb
cp /opt/hmci/doc/hmci.toml /etc/
cp /opt/hmci/doc/hmci.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable hmci

Now modify /etc/hmci.toml and test setup by running /opt/hmci/bin/hmci -d manually and verify connection to HMC and InfluxDB. Afterwards start service with systemctl start hmci .