Manually installing the agent

If you have difficulties installing the agent with UI, you can install it manually on the device

ℹ️ Requirements

Please read the stack requirements before installing the agent

Method 1: Installing the agent with the provided shell script

git clone https://github.com/SquirrelCorporation/SquirrelServersManager-Agent
cd ./SquirrelServersManager-Agent

Replace below MASTER_NODE_URL by the URL to SSM

./install.sh -a -u MASTER_NODE_URL

Please note that this method will create a device in SSM. If the device has already been added or a device with the same IP already exists, the agent will fail to start. If the device already exists in SSM, use

./install.sh -a -u MASTER_NODE_URL -s DEVICE_ID

and replace DEVICE_ID by the uuid of the device in SSM (Inventory, click on the IP and copy the UUID showed in the right drawer)

Method 2: Building & Installing the agent manually

git clone https://github.com/SquirrelCorporation/SquirrelServersManager-Agent
cd ./SquirrelServersManager-Agent

vim .env

Edit the API_URL_MASTER value by the URL of SSM

npm install
npm build

Please note that this method will create a device in SSM. If the device has already been added or a device with the same IP already exists, the agent will fail to start. If the device already exists in SSM, create a hostid.txt file containing the UUID of the device in SSM.

You can start manually the agent from now one

node ./build/agent.js

However, you will need some kind of services scheduler so the agent is watchdoged and started at startup. We recommend using PM2

pm2 start -f ./build/agent.js
pm2 startup
pm2 save