Installing the OpsCenter on Mac OS X or any Linux distributions

Install the DataStax OpsCenter on Mac OS X or any Linux Distribution using the OpsCenter binary tarball.

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.

Prerequisites

  • Python 2.6+

Procedure

  1. Download the tarball distribution of OpsCenter. 
    $ curl -L http://downloads.datastax.com/community/opscenter.tar.gz | tar xz

    Files for OpsCenter and a single DataStax agent are now in place.

  2. Change to the opscenter<version-number> directory. 
    $ cd opscenter-<version-number>
  3. Start OpsCenter from the install location: 
    $ bin/opscenter
    Note: Use bin/opscenter -f to start OpsCenter in the foreground.
  4. Connect to OpsCenter in a web browser using the following URL: 
    http://opscenter-host:8888/
  5. Next you can add an existing cluster or provision a new one.