Influx Installation

- On your laptop, open a browser and obtain the required commands to download & install the software by visiting the following web page and selecting the v1.8 download option: https://portal.influxdata.com/downloads/
- Copy the install commands provided for your OS
- Make sure your InfluxDB server has Internet connectivity (as it will need to pull down the required software)
- SSH to the server that will be used to host InfluxDB
- On the CLI of your server (your SSH session), paste in the copied commands to kick-off the software download & install
- Once installation is complete, start the InfluxDB processes with the server CLI command:
sudo systemctl start influxdb
- Make sure the InfluxDB service starts after a platform reboot:
sudo systemctl enable influxdb
- Check the software is installed and running by executing the following command on the server CLI:
sudo systemctl status influxdb
(ensure the process is "active (running)" )
The next step is to create a database to drop our incoming data (from wiperf probes) into.
Last update: July 13, 2020