Manually Installing the Agent

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

ℹ️ Requirements

Please read the stack requirements before installing the agent

Environment

It is possible to customize the behavior of the agent by setting environment variables in the .env file:

Env	Required	Example	Description
URL_MASTER	YES	http://192.168.0.3:8000	URL of the SSM API
OVERRIDE_IP_DETECTION	NO	192.168.0.1	Disable the auto-detection of the IP and set a fixed value
AGENT_HEALTH_CRON_EXPRESSION	NO	'*/30 * * * * *'	Frequency of agent self-check
STATISTICS_CRON_EXPRESSION	NO	'*/30 * * * * *'	Frequency of stats push

Method 1: Installing the Agent with the Provided Shell Script

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

Replace MASTER_NODE_URL below with the URL to your SSM installation:

./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 with the UUID of the device in SSM (In Inventory, click on the IP and copy the UUID shown 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 with 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 now start the agent manually:

node ./build/agent.js

However, you will need some kind of service scheduler so the agent is monitored and starts at startup. We recommend using PM2:

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