Installing OpsCenter on Mac OS X or any Linux distribution

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

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

Prerequisites

Minimum hardware requirements for the machine on which OpsCenter runs:

Permission and software requirements:

If you intend to use encryption for configuration values, install the pycrypto library.
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+.

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.
Change to the opscenterversion_number directory.
```
$ cd opscenter-version_number
```
Start OpsCenter from the install location:
```
$ bin/opscenter
```
Note: Use bin/opscenter -f to start OpsCenter in the foreground.
Connect to OpsCenter in a web browser using the following URL:
```
http://opscenter-host:8888/
```

Add an existing cluster or provision a new cluster.