Installing the weeve agent
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.
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:
{
"Password": "",
"Broker": "tls://mapi-prod.weeve.network:8883",
"NodeId": "<NodeID shown on the screen>",
"NodeName": "<name you chose for the node>"
}
- 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-uxamd64sudo 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>
Curl and run the installer:
curl -sO http://weeve-agent.s3.amazonaws.com/weeve-agent-installer.sh
sh weeve-agent-installer.sh --configpath=<path-to-config-file> --release=prod
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
The installer script can take the following optional parameters:
Parameter | Required | Description | Possible Values | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
configpath | true | Path to the JSON file with node configuration | | |
release | true | Name of platform the node should be registered with | prod, dev | |
test | false | If specified, build the agent from local sources | | false |
broker | false | URL of the MQTT broker to connect | | |
loglevel | false | Level of log verbosity | debug, info, warning, error | info |
heartbeat | false | Time period between heartbeat messages (sec) | | 10 |
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