Installation: Agent
This part will guide you through the installation of the agent.
The prerequisites of Archipel Agent are a little bit more complicated than the ones for Client. You'll need :
- a decent version of Linux with the KVM module (fedora 13+ is great and fully tested)
- a decent version of qemu (0.12.5 is great, and included into fedora 13)
- a decent version of libvirt (0.8.7+) or trunk version.
- python 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7
- a shared folder between hypervisors if you want to use live migration (drive migration isn't ready in libvirt)
- qemu-img
- python setuptools, in order to be able to run easy_install
- python-imaging (PIL)
- python-numpy
- libvirt python bindings
- subversion (sometimes needed to install some eggs dependencies)
You can choose between these two installation procedure
As root, run from your hypervisor:
# easy_install archipel-agent
Assuming you have a clone of the repo:
# easy_install apscheduler xmpppy sqlalchemy numpy
# cd /path/to/clone/ArchipelAgent/
# ./buildAgent -d
IMPORTANT NOTE (2011/10/20): Dependencies checking is disabled by buildAgent -d and the latest versions of master sources needs to install some dependencies. To be sure you have everything installed, run at least one time: easy_install apscheduler xmpppy sqlalchemy numpy python-magic
Whatever the installation procedure you choose, you must follow these steps.
To finish the Archipel installation:
# archipel-initinstall
The configuration file of Archipel agent can be found in /etc/archipel/archipel.conf
You must adapt some value to your system. To get information about this configuration file,
you can look at Archipel Agent's configuration file.
If you just installed your Ejabberd server, you need to create the following pubsub nodes to store stuff. Just run
# archipel-tagnode --jid=admin@FQDN --password=YOURPASSWORD --create
# archipel-rolesnode --jid=admin@FQDN --password=YOURPASSWORD --create
# archipel-adminaccounts --jid=admin@FQDN --password=YOURPASSWORD --create
# archipel-vmparkingnode --jid=admin@FQDN --password=YOURPASSWORD --create
# [OPTIONAL] archipel-vmrequestnode --jid=admin@FQDN --password=YOURPASSWORD --create
If you want to use the vmparking feature, you need to declare your hypervisors as publisher. To do so, please do, for each hypervisor:
# archipel-vmparkingnode --jid=admin@FQDN --password=YOURPASSWORD -a hypervisor_jid@FQDN
More information about these tools can be found in the Tools page.
Finally go to /etc/archipel/archipel.conf and replace the first token with your Ejabberd FQDN. Then run
# /etc/init.d/archipel start
If it doesn't start, try to manually run this command:
# runarchipel
In case of basic initialization errors, they will be printed in the terminal. Do not forget to kill the runarchipel process you have manually launch before restarting it from the init script
The logs will be printed into /var/log/archipel/archipel.log. To be completely sure Archipel is up and your hypervisor is connected you can run:
# ejabberdctl connected_users
(in case of using Ubuntu you must always use sudo in front of ejabberdctl, otherwise you get a confusing error)
You should see at least an entry like [email protected]
After sucessfull installation, you can run a archipel-test-xmppserver script to performe some checks.
The script will performe 10 connection commands with your XMPP Server ( ejabberd ):
To update archipel-agent when a new egg is pushed, you just have to run
# easy_install -U archipel-agent
# /etc/init.d/archipel restart
You may want in certain circumstances also run
archipel-initinstallif configuration file changed, but most of the time, you should not need to run this script again
Just go to your repository clone and perform:
# git pull
# /etc/init.d/archipel restart
You may want in certain circumstances also run
archipel-initinstallif configuration file changed, but most of the time, you should not need to run this script again
Here is a small HOWTO with steps how to run Archipel as a not-root user.