I've installed the netdata package 1.19.0-1 on OpenWRT 19.07.3; however, after reading the instructions here for claiming an agent:
I found that the OpenWRT package doesn't include the netdata-claim.sh script. I also found that the "claim" argument to the netdata binary, as described here, is not recognized:
I get the following error, with my redacted command shown for reference:
I suspect this is because OpenWRT is running ash rather than bash, by default. I installed the bash package, and now get this error:
root@OpenWrt:~# bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh)
bash: curl: command not found
So, I installed curl, and now get this:
root@OpenWrt:~# bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh)
System : Linux
Operating System : GNU/Linux
Machine : mips
BASH major version:
--- Fetching script to detect required packages... ---
[/tmp/netdata-kickstart-IAmOOd]# curl -q -sSL --connect-timeout 10 --retry 3 --output /tmp/netdata-kickstart-IAmOOd/install-required-packages.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata/master/packaging/installer/install-required-packages.sh OK
--- Running downloaded script to detect required packages... ---
[/tmp/netdata-kickstart-IAmOOd]# /bin/bash /tmp/netdata-kickstart-IAmOOd/install-required-packages.sh netdata Loading /etc/os-release ...
Unknown distribution ID: openwrt
Unknown distribution ID: lede
Unknown distribution ID: openwrt
Cannot find valid distribution in: openwrt lede openwrt
Cannot find valid distribution with lsb-release
I NEED YOUR HELP
It seems I cannot detect your system automatically.
And it seems I cannot find a known package manager in this system.
Please open a github issue to help us support your system too.
FAILED
WARNING It failed to install all the required packages, but installation might still be possible.
Press ENTER to attempt netdata installation >
I pressed enter, and finally we end here:
--- OK, let's give it a try... ---
[/tmp/netdata-kickstart-PnlPCM]# curl -q -sSL --connect-timeout 10 --retry 3 --output /tmp/netdata-kickstart-PnlPCM/sha256sum.txt https://storage.googleapis.com/netdata-nightlies/sha256sums.txt OK
[/tmp/netdata-kickstart-PnlPCM]# curl -q -sSL --connect-timeout 10 --retry 3 --output /tmp/netdata-kickstart-PnlPCM/netdata-latest.tar.gz https://storage.googleapis.com/netdata-nightlies/netdata-latest.tar.gz OK
[/tmp/netdata-kickstart-PnlPCM]# tar -xf netdata-latest.tar.gz tar: invalid tar magic
FAILED
/proc/self/fd/63: line 391: cd: netdata-*: No such file or directory
ABORTED Cannot cd to netdata source tree
It appears that even though the script reported downloading that netdata-latest.tar.gz file ok, it actually did not, as it doesn't appear in the temp directory:
root@OpenWrt:~# cd /tmp/netdata-kickstart-PnlPCM/
root@OpenWrt:/tmp/netdata-kickstart-PnlPCM# ls
install-required-packages.sh sha256sum.txt
root@OpenWrt:/tmp/netdata-kickstart-PnlPCM#
When the script cannot figure out a known distro, it downloads its dependencies manually as well as Netdata and attempts to compile/install. The surprising part is that the curl download did not work - or potentially there was some issue with tar. I'm not too familiar with how well those two work on openwrt.
Can you open up an issue on Github? We may run into additional issues anyways.
There are already all dependencies request for netdata, but you just need to use opkg update and then install all required packages. If you want to compile packages for OpenWrt, it is a better to cross-compile them.
I use netdata from entware-ng (mostly based on the openwrt one).
The latest version available from opkg (1.30.1 at this time) does create the /opt/var/lib/netdata/cloud.d/ folder (tat is empty), and the netdata --help does list the option -W "claim -token=TOKEN -rooms=ROOM1,ROOM2"
However, the cloud feature is still intentionally disabled:
root@HERMES:/tmp/mnt/sda1/entware/var/lib/netdata/cloud.d$ netdata -W buildinfo
Version: netdata v1.30.1
Configure options: '--target=arm-openwrt-linux' '--host=arm-openwrt-linux' '--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--program-suffix=' '--prefix=/opt' '--exec-prefix=/opt' '--bindir=/opt/bin' '--sbindir=/opt/sbin' '--libexecdir=/opt/lib' '--sysconfdir=/opt/etc' '--datadir=/opt/share' '--localstatedir=/opt/var' '--mandir=/opt/man' '--infodir=/opt/info' '--disable-nls' '--with-zlib' '--with-math' '--disable-x86-sse' '--enable-lto' '--disable-ebpf' '--without-libcap' '--disable-https' '--disable-dbengine' '--disable-plugin-nfacct' '--disable-plugin-freeipmi' '--disable-plugin-cups' '--disable-plugin-xenstat' '--disable-backend-prometheus-remote-write' '--disable-unit-tests' '--disable-cloud' 'build_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=arm-openwrt-linux' 'target_alias=arm-openwrt-linux' 'CC=arm-openwrt-linux-gnueabi-gcc' 'CFLAGS=-pipe -mcpu=cortex-a15 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -funsafe-math-optimizations -mtune=cortex-a15 -fcommon -fno-caller-saves -fhonour-copts -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=unused-result -mfloat-abi=hard -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -O3 ' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--dynamic-linker=/opt/lib/ld-linux.so.3 -Wl,-rpath=/opt/lib -L/home/voxel/Entware/staging_dir/toolchain-arm_cortex-a15_gcc-9.4.0_glibc-2.27_eabi/lib -Wl,--gc-sections ' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/home/voxel/Entware/staging_dir/toolchain-arm_cortex-a15_gcc-9.4.0_glibc-2.27_eabi/include ' 'CXX=arm-openwrt-linux-gnueabi-g++' 'CXXFLAGS=-pipe -mcpu=cortex-a15 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -funsafe-math-optimizations -mtune=cortex-a15 -fcommon -fno-caller-saves -fhonour-copts -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=unused-result -mfloat-abi=hard -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -O3 ' 'PKG_CONFIG=/home/voxel/Entware/staging_dir/host/bin/pkg-config' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/voxel/Entware/staging_dir/target-arm_cortex-a15_glibc-2.27_eabi/opt/lib/pkgconfig:/home/voxel/Entware/staging_dir/target-arm_cortex-a15_glibc-2.27_eabi/opt/share/pkgconfig' 'PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/home/voxel/Entware/staging_dir/target-arm_cortex-a15_glibc-2.27_eabi/opt/lib/pkgconfig:/home/voxel/Entware/staging_dir/target-arm_cortex-a15_glibc-2.27_eabi/opt/share/pkgconfig'
Features:
dbengine: NO
Native HTTPS: NO
Netdata Cloud: NO (by user request)
TLS Host Verification: YES
Libraries:
jemalloc: NO
JSON-C: YES
libcap: NO
libcrypto: YES
libm: YES
LWS: YES shared-lib
mosquitto: YES
tcalloc: NO
zlib: YES
Plugins:
apps: YES
cgroup Network Tracking: YES
CUPS: NO
EBPF: NO
IPMI: NO
NFACCT: NO
perf: YES
slabinfo: YES
Xen: NO
Xen VBD Error Tracking: NO
Exporters:
AWS Kinesis: NO
GCP PubSub: NO
MongoDB: NO
Prometheus Remote Write: NO
Any chance to have this working now that the ACKL is simpler ans requires less dependencies?
By default, it could be turn off in the netdata.conf, but enabling the cloud would allow users to turn it on if they wish.
Arguments are: now enabling the cloud feature does not depend on mosquito and as many other dependencies with their new ACKL system, I understood that was the reason why it was not activated in the openwrt distribution.
Why not let the users have a choice instead of forcing them to not be able to enable it even if they want?
What would be the security issue of enabling cloud ability, but turn it off by default in the default netdata.conf?
I am also interested in connecting a bunch of our OR devices to netdata in order to get a dashboard type view of our estate. If disabling the cloud ability essentially makes the app useless then what is the point of having it released?
