Preparing your server
Installation planning
To install Automate-IT-2.5, you will need:
- CentOs 7.x
- 8 cores
- 16 Go Ram
- 250 Go SSD Hard Drive
- Access to a production storage (R/W)
- (A virtual machine is recommended)
Server installation
Install a CentOS 7.x Linux server.
Open the firewall on the following ports:
| 80 | http |
| 443 | https |
| 22 | ssh |
| 4369 | epmd, a peer discovery service used by RabbitMQ nodes and CLI tools |
| 5672, 5671 | used by AMQP 0-9-1 and 1.0 clients without and with TLS |
Login
$ ssh root@automate-it-server
Where { automate-it-server } point to your Linux server.
Create a “ait” user
$ useradd -m -r ait $ passwd ait
Add “ait” user to sudoers
Edit sudoers to add ait user
$ nano /etc/sudoers
Add this line after root
ait ALL=(ALL) ALL
Disable selinux
$ nano /etc/sysconfig/selinux Change this line SELINUX=enforcing into SELINUX=disabled
And reboot the machine
Reconnect
Reconnect as ait
$ ssh ait@automate-it-server
Installing Automate-IT-2.5
Connect
If not connected, login into your server
$ ssh ait@automate-it-server
Create a folder to hold the installer
$ mkdir automate-it
Copy the installation folder
Copy pulse-it -x.x.x folder into /home/ait/automate-it
Run the installer
$ sudo ./setup.py --online --with_python
CLI Options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
--upgrade | Upgrade app and system packages |
| --upgrade-app | Upgrade only the app, not the system packages |
| --reinstall | Redo the install process. |
| --uninstall | De-install the product |
| --init_database | Reinitialize the Automate-IT database |
| --no-postgresql | Install product without installing postgres db |
| --with_python | Install a fresh version of Python. Needed only when running the installer for the first time. |
| --online | Tells the installer to use yum configured repository |
| --pip-locale | Tells the installer to use local pip package |
| --pip-trusted-hosts | Set the host:port pairs passed as params (separated by comma) as trusted, even though it does not have valid or any HTTPS. |
| --pip-index-url | Set a specific pip url for installation |
| --ssl | Install the server in https. You need to specify where the certificated are located in /etc/nginx/sites-available/embrace-app-https.conf |
Upgrading Automate-IT-2.5
Connect
If not connected, login into your server
$ ssh ait@automate-it-server
Copy the upgrade folder
Copy pulse_it -x.x.x folder into /home/ait/pulse-it
Run the installer
$ sudo ./setup.py --online --upgrade-app
Uninstalling Automate-IT-2.5
Connect
If not connected, login into your server
$ ssh ait@automate-it-server $ cd automate-it-x.x.x
Run the installer
$ sudo ./setup.py --uninstall