Installation and System Requirements

System requirements

Supported Operating Systems

  • Red Hat Linux 8.X

  • Oracle Linux 8.X

Supported Web Browsers

  • Mozilla Firefox

  • Google Chrome

  • Microsoft Edge

Network Communication

From

To

Port

Protocol

Description

Bidirectional Communication

Energy Monitor

Nrpe Agent

5666

TCP

Agent communication

Energy Monitor

Network Host

161

UDP

SNMP request comunication

Network Host

Energy Monitor

162

UDP

SNMP trap comunication

User browser

Energy Monitor

443

TCP

GUI

Other node

Energy Monitor

15551

TCP

Cluster communiaction

Other node

Energy Monitor

22

TCP

SSH cluster comunication

Hardware Requirements

  • The following hardware requirements assume the default check intervals of 5 minutes.

  • If extensive logging is required in the environment, it is advisable to utilize 2 server, clustered environment.

Hosts

CPU cores

RAM

Storage

Up to 300

8

16 GB

500 GB SSD

Up to 1000

12

24 GB

500 GB SSD

Over 2000

12

32 GB

1 TB SSD

Partition Set Up (Up to 1000 hosts)

/

10 GB

/opt

100 GB

/tmp

3 GB

/home

10 GB

/data

60 GB

/var

20 GB

/var/lib

120 GB

/var/log

35 GB

/var/log/audit

6 GB

Partition Set Up (Over 2000 hosts)

/

20 GB

/opt

100 GB

/tmp

3 GB

/home

10 GB

/data

60 GB

/var

20 GB

/var/lib

500 GB

/var/log

35 GB

/var/log/audit

6 GB

Note: For installations above 2000 hosts we recommend involving EMCA engineers for the topology design.

Repository

Installation need access to below repo.

Red Hat 8

Oracle Linux 8

Added During Installation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream

Oracle Linux 8 Application Stream (x86_64)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS

Oracle Linux 8 BaseOS Latest (x86_64)

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for RHEL 8 x86_64

Oracle Linux 8 CodeReady Builder (x86_64)

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8

Docker CE Stable

Docker CE Stable

Installation

The Energy Monitor installer is delivered as tarball energy-monitor-{product_version}.tar.gz

The Energy Monitor comes with simple installation script called install.sh. It is designed to facilitate the installation and deployment process of our product. After running(execute) the script, it will detect supported distribution. The script is located in the energy-monitor directory.

Installation steps

  1. Untar the archive containing installer tar -xvf energy-monitor-{product_verison}.tar.gz

  2. Go to the extracted directory cd ./energy-monitor

  3. Run installation script with installation flag ./install.sh -i or ./install.sh install

  • If you are upgrading from a lower version, please use “-u” or “upgrade” parameter instead.

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Follow the onscreen prompts. During this process you will be asked to confirm that you want to install Energy Monitor on your system.

If everything went correctly, you should be able to login to GUI with default credentials provided at the end of installation process.

By default, admin login is:

login: admin
password: admin

GUI will be available at https://IP_address of the machine it was installed on.

Note: Energy Monitor works only on https. Attempting to connect via http will result in error.
  1. Copy license file to /etc/energy-monitor-license directory

Licence

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