Requirements for the Use of the Online Installation Tool

• Have access to the Internet. Specific web addresses:
  • For the Open version (ICMP):
    • firefly.pandoafms.com
    • support.pandorafms.com
  • For the Open version (HTTPS):
    • https://pandorafms.com
    • https://firefly.pandorafms.com/pandorafms/
    • https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
    • https://rpms.remirepo.net
    • https://repo.percona.com
    • http//mirror.ghettoforge.org
    • https://download.oracle.com
    • https://packages.microsoft.com
    • https://github.com/pandorafms/
  • For the Enterprise version (HTTPS):
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pandorafms/
    • https://pfms.me
• In addition to these URLs, it is necessary to have access to the official repositories of the distribution used (RHEL / Rocky Linux / Ubuntu).
• Having curl installed (it comes by default in most distributions).
• Meeting the minimum hardware requirements.
• Be root admin user.
• Have a supported SO.
• In case of using RHEL 8, it will be necessary to previously activate it with a license and subscribe it to the standard repositories.

To use the online installation tool, just access the command line of your Cloud provider, and by means of the root user, run:

In you use RHEL 8.x and Rocky Linux 8.x:

curl -sSL https://pfms.me/deploy-pandora-el8 | bash

In you use Ubuntu server 22.04:

curl -SsL https://pfms.me/deploy-pandora-ubuntu | bash

There is a similar online installation tool for Pandora FMS Enterprise version that you may request if you are a user of this version through the support portal or through this link get a free trial (demo). In addition, for Satellite server installation, there is an online installation tool too.

By means of this execution, the whole stack necessary for Pandora FMS will be installed, rendering an instance fully funtional to start monitoring.

You may get more information in our video tutorial «Cloud installers (agents, server)».

Custom installation using the online installation tool

Although the previous execution performs a full environment installation, it is possible to define different modifications through the environment variables to customize the installation.

These modifiers are:

• TZ: Define the time zone (time zone) of the machine, by default it is Europe/Madrid.
• DBHOST: The database host, by defaultDBHOST=127.0.0.1 .
• DBNAME: The database name to be created, by default DBNAME=pandora.
• DBUSER: The database user will be created, by default DBUSER=pandora .
• DBPASS: The user password that will be created, by default DBPASS=pandora.
• DBPORT: Port number of the database to be connected, by default DBPORT=3306.
• DBROOTPASS: Database root user password, by default DBROOTPASS=pandora.
• SKIP_PRECHECK: Skip the check of whether there is an prior Pandora FMS installation, useful for creating a new database and pointing the installation to that one; by default SKIP_PRECHECK=0.
• SKIP_DATABASE_INSTALL: Skip the database installation, useful for having a database installed, whether local or remote and using its credentials for creating Pandora FMS database; by default SKIP_DATABASE_INSTALL=0.
• SKIP_KERNEL_OPTIMIZATIONS: Saltarse la optimización de kernel recomendada, solo para usuarios avanzados. Por defecto SKIP_KERNEL_OPTIMIZATIONS=0.
• MYVER: Define la versión de MySQL a instalar, si se define 80 se instalará MySQL 8. Por defecto MYVER=57 (despliega MySQL 5.7).
• PHPVER: Define la versión de PHP a instalar, si se define 8 se instalará PHP 8. Por defecto PHPVER=7 (despliega PHP 7).
• PANDORA_SERVER_PACKAGE: Define la URL del paquete RPM del servidor de Pandora FMS que se desee instalar. Por defecto está definida la última versión disponible.
• PANDORA_CONSOLE_PACKAGE: Define la URL del paquete RPM de la Consola web de Pandora FMS que se desee instalar. Por defecto está definida la última versión disponible.
• PANDORA_AGENT_PACKAGE: Define la URL del paquete RPM del Agente software de Pandora FMS que se desee instalar. Por defecto está definida la última versión disponible.
• PANDORA_BETA: Si se define a 1 se instalarán los paquetes de la última version beta disponible (solo para entornos de prueba). Por defecto PANDORA_BETA=0 (si están definidos paquetes específicos se ignora esta opción).

Para el uso de estas variables de entorno basta con definirlas antes de ejecutar el script de instalación, por ejemplo, en una instalación en RHEL 8 con variables definidas ejecute el bloque:

env TZ='Europe/Madrid' \
 DBHOST='127.0.0.1' \
 DBNAME='pandora' \
 DBUSER='pandora' \
 DBPASS='pandora' \
 DBPORT='3306' \
 DBROOTPASS='pandora' \
 MYVER=57 \
 PHPVER=7 \
 SKIP_PRECHECK=0 \
 SKIP_DATABASE_INSTALL=0 \
 SKIP_KERNEL_OPTIMIZATIONS=0 \
 PANDORA_SERVER_PACKAGE="https://firefly.pandorafms.com/pandorafms/latest/RHEL_CentOS/pandorafms_server-7.0NG.noarch.rpm" \
 PANDORA_CONSOLE_PACKAGE="https://firefly.pandorafms.com/pandorafms/latest/RHEL_CentOS/pandorafms_console-7.0NG.noarch.rpm" \
 PANDORA_AGENT_PACKAGE="https://firefly.pandorafms.com/pandorafms/latest/RHEL_CentOS/pandorafms_agent_linux-7.0NG.noarch.rpm" \
 PANDORA_BETA=0 \
 sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://pfms.me/deploy-pandora-el8)"