Installing OpsCenter with the standalone installer

Installs the DataStax OpsCenter web application with a standalone GUI installer on Mac OS X (dev only), or on any Linux distribution.

The standalone installer installs OpsCenter on any Linux-based platform or Mac OS X using a graphical interface. A text interface is available for Linux distributions.

For a complete list of supported platforms, see DataStax OpsCenter – Supported Platforms.

The DataStax agent is not installed with the standalone installer. The agent is installed when DataStax Enterprise or Cassandra is installed, or you can manually install the agents. For more information, see Installing DataStax agents.

Prerequisites

Minimum hardware requirements for the machine on which OpsCenter runs:
  • 2 CPU cores
  • 2 GB of RAM available to OpsCenter

Permission and software requirements:

  • Root or sudo access when installing as a system service, and if installing missing system dependencies.
  • JRE or JDK (recommended) is only required if HTTPS or opscenterd/agent SSL is enabled (off by default). See installing the Oracle JDK or OpenJDK.
  • DataStax recommends using a recent version of one of the major web browsers. OpsCenter does not support Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge.
  • Python 2.6+.

Procedure

  1. Download the installer for your operating system from the DataStax OpsCenter download page:
    • Mac OS X
    • Linux
  2. Launch the installer:
    • (Mac OSX) Double-click the downloaded .dmg file.
    • (Linux) Follow these steps:
      1. From the directory where you downloaded the install file, change the permission to executable: 
        $ chmod +x DataStaxOpsCenter-5.0.version_number-linux-64-installer.run
      2. To view the installer help:
        $ ./DataStaxOpsCenter-5.0.version_number-64-linux-installer.run --help
      3. Start the installation: 
        $ ./DataStaxOpsCenter-5.0.version_number-64-linux-installer.run             ##Install in GUI mode.
$ ./DataStaxOpsCenter-5.0.version_number-64-linux-installer.run --mode text ##Install in Text mode.
        Note: If you plan to install as a service, you must use sudo.
  3. Follow the instructions in the install wizard.

    The installation completes. If you installed as a service and selected Launch OpsCenter Web Interface in the wizard, OpsCenter opens in your default browser. Otherwise, continue with the next step.

  4. If you chose not to run as a service, start OpsCenter to run in the background: 
    $ bin/opscenter ##Use bin/opscenter -f to start OpsCenter in the foreground.
  5. Connect to OpsCenter in a web browser using the following URL: 
    http://opscenter-host:8888/