Pulse-IT Server Installation guide 3.1

Modified on Mon, 24 Apr, 2023 at 10:55 AM

Preparing your server

Installation planning

To install Pulse-IT-3.1, you will need:

CentOs 7.x Or Red Hat Enterprise Linux-8.6
8 cores
32 Go Ram minimum. You may need more memory if you have several agents or schedulers running
250 Go Hard Drive
Access to a production storage (R/W)
(A virtual machine is recommended)

Server installation

Install a CentOS 7.x / RHEL-8.6 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@pulse-it-server

Where { pulse-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@pulse-it-server

Installing Pulse-IT-3.1

Connect

If not connected, login into your server

$ ssh ait@pulse-it-server

Copy the installation folder

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

Install Python if necessary

Some RedHat installer does not install python by default. To check, type python3 and return. If you get an error, then install python3 using this command

sudo yum install python3

Run the RedHat installer

$ chmod +x setup-rhel.py 
$ sudo ./setup-rhel.py --online

Run the Centos installer

$ sudo ./setup.py --online

Installer CLI Options

Option	Description
--upgrade	Upgrade app and system packages
--reinstall	Redo the install process.
--uninstall	De-install the product. (Please note the db will be erased)

--init_database	Reinitialize Pulse-IT database
--no-postgresql	Install product without installing postgres db
--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
--pip-proxy	Let you define the network proxy to use when pip is running. URL should be like this: [user:passwd@]proxy.server:port
--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 Pulse-IT-3.1 from a Pulse-IT-3.1 version

Connect

If not connected, login into your server

$ ssh ait@pulse-it-server

Copy the upgrade folder

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

Run the installer

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

Uninstalling Pulse-IT-3.1

Beware that that uninstalling Pulse-IT will erase your database.

Connect

If not connected, login into your server

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

Run the uninstaller

$ sudo ./setup.py --uninstall