Install Agents Using Offline Method (without SSH access)

This page describes installing Pulse Hydra Agent If you do not have SSH access to the cluster nodes, contact the Acceldata Support Team for offline Hydra agent packages (RPM or DEB) that you can install on all the cluster nodes with the preferred configuration management tool of your choice.

Install Agent(s)

1. Download and upload the Hystaller binary on the mentioned node from the provided link and credentials.
2. Place hystaller on /tmp directory and follow the steps below for the command sequences, replacing <PULSE_HOSTNAME> with the hostname running Pulse UI (main server).

chmod +x /tmp/hystaller

PULSE_HOME="/opt/pulse"

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"

HYDRA_SERVER_URL="http://<PULSE_HOSTNAME>:19072"

HYDRA_HEARTBEAT_DURATION="60"

HYDRA_PARCEL_MODE="False"

HYDRA_HOSTNAME_CASE="lower"

HYDRA_HOSTNAME_METHOD="CMD"

HYDRA_HEARTBEAT_JITTER="10"

#sudo if this is non-root user

sudo env  "PULSE_HOME=$PULSE_HOME" "PATH=$PATH" "HYDRA_SERVER_URL=$HYDRA_SERVER_URL" "HYDRA_HEARTBEAT_DURATION=$HYDRA_HEARTBEAT_DURATION" "HYDRA_PARCEL_MODE=$HYDRA_PARCEL_MODE" "HYDRA_HOSTNAME_CASE=$HYDRA_HOSTNAME_CASE" "HYDRA_HOSTNAME_METHOD=$HYDRA_HOSTNAME_METHOD" "HYDRA_HEARTBEAT_JITTER=$HYDRA_HEARTBEAT_JITTER" /tmp/hystaller install

3. SSH to the main Pulse server running UI and run the following command to sync the configuration from the Pulse server to the new node.

accelo reconfig cluster

Uninstall Agent(s)

1. Using the same hystaller agent can be uninstalled

/tmp/hystaller uninstall