A step-by-step guide to installing the weeve agent.
The weeve Agent is the edge software that is responsible for executing the deployed Edge Applications. It can be installed on edge hardware like gateways, industrial computers or smart machines and turns them into weeve Edge—Nodes, a manageable asset in the weeve Manager. The minimal requirements for hardware and operating system to run the weeve agent are the following and include a working connection to the internet.
Before starting with the installation process it is recommended to get to know the hardware and software requirements for the weeve Agent.
Quick-start
Registering a new node
Log into your account in the weeve Manager web UI and navigate to Nodes. Then click on "+ Register Node" and input all the necessary information. After clicking "Submit" you will be shown the ID of the newly registered node and offered the option to download the configuration file. If you want to create the file manually fill the following json schema:
{
"RootCertPath": "",
"NodeId": "<NodeID shown on the screen>",
"Password": "",
"APIkey": "",
"NodeName": "<name you chose for the node>",
"Registered": true
}
Pre-installation process tweaks for RedHat based distributions
binary and dependencies should go in this specific path /usr/local/bin
enable docker on start-up systemctl enable docker
Following commands are to add rule to SELinux, allowing the binary to be executed:
sudo ausearch -c '(ux_amd64)' --raw | audit2allow -M my-uxamd64
sudo semodule -X 300 -i my-uxamd64.pp
Following command is to change permissions of the specific directory:
/sbin/restorecon -v /usr/local/bin/<name-of-the-binary>
sh weeve-agent-installer.sh configpath=<path-to-config-file> release=prod
and answer the questions in the following prompt. Voila, the weeve agent is installed and you can check it's status with systemctl status weeve-agent.service.
To remove the agent installation execute this one-liner:
curl -sO http://weeve-agent.s3.amazonaws.com/weeve-agent-uninstaller.sh && sh weeve-agent-uninstaller.sh
weeve agent CLI arguments
Arguments
Short
Required
Description
Default
Text
broker
b
true
URL of the MQTT broker to connect
out
false
Print logs to stdout
false
heartbeat
t
false
Time period of heartbeat messages (sec)
30
mqttlogs
m
false
For developer - Display detailed MQTT logging messages
notls
false
For developer - disable TLS for MQTT
loglevel
l
false
Set the logging level
info
logfilename
false
Set the name of the log file
Weeve_Agent.log
logsize
false
Set the size of each log files (MB)
1
logage
false
Set the time period to retain the log files (days)