Automate-IT server installation guide 2.5

Modified on Tue, 18 Aug, 2020 at 10:42 AM

Preparing your server

To install Automate-IT-2.5, you will need:

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

$ ssh root@automate-it-server

Where { automate-it-server } point to your Linux server.

$ useradd -m -r ait
$ passwd ait

Edit sudoers to add ait user

$ nano /etc/sudoers

Add this line after root

ait             ALL=(ALL)       ALL

$ nano /etc/sysconfig/selinux

Change this line

SELINUX=enforcing
into 
SELINUX=disabled

And reboot the machine

Reconnect as ait

$ ssh ait@automate-it-server

If not connected, login into your server

$ ssh ait@automate-it-server

Create a folder to hold the installer

$ mkdir automate-it

Copy pulse-it -x.x.x folder into /home/ait/automate-it

$ sudo ./setup.py --online --with_python

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

If not connected, login into your server

$ ssh ait@automate-it-server

Copy pulse_it -x.x.x folder into /home/ait/pulse-it

$ sudo ./setup.py --online --upgrade-app

If not connected, login into your server

$ ssh ait@automate-it-server 
$ cd automate-it-x.x.x

$ sudo ./setup.py --uninstall