02_remote_management.md

Remote administration for pgmoneta

This tutorial will show you how to do setup remote management for pgmoneta.

Preface

This tutorial assumes that you have an installation of PostgreSQL 13+ and pgmoneta.

See Install pgmoneta for more detail.

Change the pgmoneta configuration

Change pgmoneta.conf to add

management = 5002

under the [pgmoneta] setting, like

[pgmoneta]
...
management = 5002

(pgmoneta user)

Add pgmoneta admin

pgmoneta-admin -f pgmoneta_admins.conf -U admin -P admin1234 user add

(pgmoneta user)

Restart pgmoneta

Stop pgmoneta and start it again with

pgmoneta-cli -c pgmoneta.conf stop
pgmoneta -c pgmoneta.conf -u pgmoneta_users.conf -A pgmoneta_admins.conf

(pgmoneta user)

Connect via remote administration interface

pgmoneta-cli -h localhost -p 5002 -U admin status details

and use admin1234 as the password

(pgmoneta user)

Using Transport Level Security for access

You can security the administration level interface by using Transport Level Security (TLS).

It is done by setting the following options,

[pgmoneta]
tls_cert_file=/path/to/server.crt
tls_key_file=/path/to/server.key
tls_ca_file=/path/to/root.crt

...

in pgmoneta.conf.

The client side setup must go into ~/.pgmoneta/ with the following files

~/.pgmoneta/pgmoneta.key
~/.pgmoneta/pgmoneta.crt
~/.pgmoneta/root.crt

They must have 0600 permission.