Epidemiology & Technology

Percona Monitoring and Management on Proxmox

Vivek Gupta·April 28, 2020·0 comments

PMM Server is supplied as a Open Virtualization Format (OVF) appliance file. Proxmox does not directly support the same but we can follow a few steps to make it work ! In my case, I used CEPH rbd storage in proxmox cluster for innstalling PMM. Downlaoded from HERE

Steps

SCP the file to Proxmox Host

scp  pmm-server-2.5.0.ova    root@proxmoxHostIp:/var/lib/vz
ssh root@proxmoxHostIp
cd /var/lib/vz
tar xvf pmm-server-2.5.0.ova 
ls 

# PMM2-Server-2020-04-14-1130-disk001.vmdk  PMM2-Server-2020-04-14-1130.mf   pmm-server-2.5.0.ova  snippets
# images  PMM2-Server-2020-04-14-1130-disk002.vmdk  PMM2-Server-2020-04-14-1130.ovf  private               
# template
Code language: PHP (php)

Convert VMDKs to RAW, the format supported by CEPH RBD storage). Commands to convert to qcow2 format (if you wish to use ZSH) are also listed here

qemu-img convert -f vmdk PMM2-Server-2020-04-14-1130-disk001.vmdk -O raw disk1.raw
qemu-img convert -f vmdk PMM2-Server-2020-04-14-1130-disk002.vmdk -O raw disk2.raw

qemu-img convert -f vmdk PMM2-Server-2020-04-14-1130-disk001.vmdk -O qcow2  disk001.qcow2
qemu-img convert -f vmdk PMM2-Server-2020-04-14-1130-disk002.vmdk -O qcow2  disk002.qcow2

qm importdisk 126 disk1.raw cephpool1
qm importdisk 126 disk2.raw cephpool1Code language: CSS (css)

Create a VM with 2 cores, 4 GB RAM and a HDD in the Proxmox Host. Note the VMID. In my case, VMID was 126. The hard-drives attached to this VM were in a CEPH rbd pool of the proxmox cluster. The name of the pool was cephpool1. Create but do not start the VM.

Now Import the RAW disks to the cephpool1 and associate with the the VMID 126

qm importdisk 126 disk1.raw cephpool1
qm importdisk 126 disk2.raw cephpool1Code language: CSS (css)

Now these hard drives are imported but not yet enabled for the VM.

Select the VMID > Hardware. You will see two unused disks there. If there are any already attached HDDs, remove and delete them. Then select the first unused (lower numbered) HDD, click Edit > Add in the dialog box. Repeat process for the next unused HDD.

Start up the VM and PMM should start.

Log in using user – root, password – percona and set a new password by followng the prompts.

Set a Static IP address. This is a CentOS 7 VM LINK

vi /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg

# ADD LINES
network:
   config: disabled
# !wq

# IP Address in CIDR notation
nmcli con mod "System eth0" ipv4.addresses 192.168.1.250/24
# Default gateway
nmcli con mod "System eth0" ipv4.gateway 192.168.1.1
# DNS
nmcli con mod "System eth0" ipv4.dns "8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4"
nmcli con mod "System eth0" ipv4.method manual
nmcli con mod "System eth0" connection.autoconnect yes

sudo reboot
Code language: PHP (php)

FOLLOWING WOULD NOT PERSIS AFTER REBOOT

ip a
# Note the name of ethernet device and edit the corresponding config file
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0Code language: PHP (php)

Add a user for management and exchange SSH Keys

# On PMM Server
adduser vivek
passwd vivek
usermod -aG wheel vivek

yum install nano

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# Enable PasswordLogin
# PasswordAuthentication yes

systemctl restart sshd



# On Client
ssh-copy-id vivek@192.168.1.250 


# On PMM Server
nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# Disable PasswordLogin
# PasswordAuthentication no
systemctl restart sshd

Code language: PHP (php)

Set environment

nano /etc/environment
# LANG=en_US.utf-8
# LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8

sudo rebootCode language: PHP (php)

Access web interface and set password

Using a broswer go to the Dashboard at https://192.168.1.250

Log in using admin:admin

set a new password: PMMPassword

On Node to be monitored

wget https://repo.percona.com/apt/percona-release_latest.generic_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i percona-release_latest.generic_all.deb
apt-get update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pmm2-client

sudo pmm-admin config --server-url=https://admin:PMMPassword@192.168.1.250:443 --server-insecure-tls

sudo nano  /etc/mysql/my.cnf 
# Enable Perfromace schema
sudo service mariadb status
sudo service mariadb  restart
sudo service mariadb status

mysql -u dbadministrator -p 

CREATE USER 'pmm'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pass' WITH MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS 10;
GRANT SELECT, PROCESS, SUPER, REPLICATION CLIENT, RELOAD ON *.* TO 'pmm'@'localhost';
GRANT SELECT ON performance_schema.* TO 'pmm'@'localhost';


sudo pmm-admin add mysql --username=pmm --password=pass --query-source=perfschema ps-mysql 127.0.0.1:3306Code language: PHP (php)

Vivek Gupta

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