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Installation: Agent

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This part will guide you through the installation of the agent.

Alternatively, consider using ANSOS (Archipel Node Stateless OS), our ready-to-use Archipel hypervisor appliance based on CentOS 7.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites of Archipel Agent are a little bit more complicated than the ones for Client. You'll need :

  • a decent version of Linux with the KVM module (fedora 13+ is great and fully tested)
  • a decent version of qemu (0.12.5 is great, and included into fedora 13)
  • a decent version of libvirt (0.8.7+) or trunk version.
  • python 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7
  • a shared folder between hypervisors if you want to use live migration (drive migration isn't ready in libvirt)
  • python setuptools, in order to be able to run easy_install
  • python-imaging (PIL)
  • python-numeric (numpy)
  • libvirt python bindings
  • subversion (sometimes needed to install some eggs dependencies)
  • gcc (sometimes needed to install some eggs dependencies)
  • python-devel (sometimes needed to install some eggs dependencies)

Mixing OS packaged versions of libraries with easy_install/pip can cause some installation problems (seen on Ubuntu), therefore it is recommended to try to not mix both methods when possible and use easy_install/pip.

Installation

You can choose between the following installation procedures:

From Puppet

Use the class archipel::agent from the puppet-archipel module .

From published package on Pypi

REMOVED: The current package you can find on pypi are too old and are not working properly. They will be updated later for the beta7. So PLEASE don't use them.

From the sources

# git clone https://github.com/ArchipelProject/Archipel.git
# cd /path/to/clone/Archipel/
# ./pull.sh

pull.sh will initialize every submodule needed by the agent.

From the nightlies

# wget http://nightlies.archipelproject.org/latest-archipel-agent.tar.gz
# tar xvf latest-archipel-agent.tar.gz -C /path/to/untar/

Assuming you have completed one of the previous steps:

# easy_install apscheduler==2.1.2 sqlalchemy numpy
# cd /path/ArchipelAgent/
# ./buildAgent -d

NOTE: Dependencies checking is disabled by buildAgent -d and the latest versions of master sources needs to install some dependencies. To be sure you have everything installed, run at least one time: easy_install apscheduler sqlalchemy numpy python-magic

Post install things

Whatever the installation procedure you choose, you must follow these steps.

Finalize installation

To finish the Archipel installation:

# archipel-initinstall

Tune the configuration.

The configuration file of Archipel agent can be found in /etc/archipel/archipel.conf You must adapt some value to your system. To get information about this configuration file, you can look at Archipel Agent's configuration file.

Create the pubsub nodes

If you just installed your Ejabberd server, you need to create the following pubsub nodes to store stuff. Just run

# archipel-tagnode --jid=admin@FQDN --password=YOURPASSWORD --create
# archipel-rolesnode --jid=admin@FQDN --password=YOURPASSWORD --create
# archipel-adminaccounts --jid=admin@FQDN --password=YOURPASSWORD --create

More information about these tools can be found in the Tools page.

Start the agent

Finally go to /etc/archipel/archipel.conf and replace the first token with your Ejabberd FQDN. Then run

# /etc/init.d/archipel start

If it doesn't start, try to manually run this command:

# runarchipel

In case of basic initialization errors, they will be printed in the terminal. Do not forget to kill the runarchipel process you have manually launch before restarting it from the init script

Logs and checks

The logs will be printed into /var/log/archipel/archipel.log. To be completely sure Archipel is up and your hypervisor is connected you can run:

# ejabberdctl connected_users

(in case of using Ubuntu you must always use sudo in front of ejabberdctl, otherwise you get a confusing error)

You should see at least an entry like hypervisor@your.fqdn.com

Testing communication

After sucessfull installation, you can run the archipel-testxmppserver script to performe some checks :

# archipel-testxmppserver --jid=admin@FQDN --password=YOURPASSWORD

test2

The script will perform 10 connection commands with your XMPP Server ( ejabberd ):

test3

Update Archipel Agent

Update PyPi installation

To update archipel-agent when a new egg is pushed, you just have to run

# easy_install -U archipel-agent
# /etc/init.d/archipel restart

You may want in certain circumstances also run archipel-initinstall if configuration file changed, but most of the time, you should not need to run this script again

Update Source installation

Just go to your repository clone and perform:

# git pull
# /etc/init.d/archipel restart

You may want in certain circumstances also run archipel-initinstall if configuration file changed, but most of the time, you should not need to run this script again

HOWTO run archipel not as root

Here is a small HOWTO with steps how to run Archipel as a not-root user.

Performance

In order for the agent's server to deliver proper VM performances, the machine must have a recent CPU which supports Intel VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization. You can check if it is the case with this command, any value greater than zero is fine.

# egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

Then if "kvm" is not available as an option for your VM's "Domain type" check that your bios has Virtualization Technology (VT) enabled for your CPU. "qemu" will work but it is a software emulation of the hardware and is extremely slow.

Here is an example for a machine which needs its BIOS settings changed :

# kvm-ok
INFO: /dev/kvm does not exist
HINT:   sudo modprobe kvm_intel
INFO: Your CPU supports KVM extensions
INFO: KVM (vmx) is disabled by your BIOS
HINT: Enter your BIOS setup and enable Virtualization Technology (VT),
      and then hard poweroff/poweron your system
KVM acceleration can NOT be used

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