Installing the OpsCenter RPM package

Install the DataStax OpsCenter using Yum repositories on RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and Oracle Linux (OL) distributions.

Install the DataStax OpsCenter using Yum repositories on RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and Oracle Linux (OL) distributions. For a complete list of supported platforms, see DataStax OpsCenter – Supported Platforms.

The CentOS, RHEL, and OL OpsCenter packaged releases create an opscenter user. OpsCenter runs as a service and runs as this user. The service initialization script is located in /etc/init.d. If the OpsCenter machine reboots, OpsCenter restarts automatically.

1. Open the Yum repository specification /etc/yum.repos.d for editing. For example:

   $ sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/datastax.repo

2. In this file, add the repository for OpsCenter.

   [opscenter] 
   name = DataStax Repository
   baseurl = http://rpm.datastax.com/community
   enabled = 1
   gpgcheck = 0

3. Install the OpsCenter package.

   $ sudo yum install opscenter

For most users, the out-of-box configuration should work just fine, but if you need to you can configure OpsCenter differently.

4. Start OpsCenter:

   $ sudo service opscenterd start

5. Connect to OpsCenter in a web browser using the following URL:

   http://opscenter-host:8888/

6. Next you can add an existing cluster or provision a new one.