Installation of the Bloonix Agent

The Bloonix agent is required if you want to monitor the system resources of servers, such as CPU, memory, databases, etc.

Debian

apt-get -y install gpg wget

wget -O- https://repo.bloonix.org/bloonix.gpg \
    | gpg --dearmor >/usr/share/keyrings/bloonix.gpg

source /etc/os-release
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/bloonix.gpg] https://repo.bloonix.org/debian/ $VERSION_CODENAME main" \
    >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/bloonix.list

apt-get update
apt-get -y install bloonix-agent

Rocky Linux

dnf install epel-release wget

wget https://repo.bloonix.org/bloonix.gpg -O /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-Bloonix

cat <<EOT >/etc/yum.repos.d/bloonix.repo
[bloonix]
name=Bloonix repository
baseurl=https://repo.bloonix.org/rockylinux/\$releasever/\$basearch
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-Bloonix
EOT

dnf install bloonix-agent

Windows

For Windows systems, the Bloonix Agent can be downloaded and installed from the repository at repo.bloonix.org.

Before installing the Bloonix Agent, SNMP should be enabled on the Windows Server if the server is to be monitored via SNMP. To use the default settings of the SNMP checks, it is sufficient to create a community named public with READ ONLY permission. After that, the SNMP service should be restarted once.

During installation, a portable version of Python 3 is also installed automatically within the agent’s installation directory.

The following paths are relevant:

• Installation path: C:\Program Files\Bloonix
• Configuration file: C:\ProgramData\Bloonix\Agent\etc\main.conf
• Log file: C:\ProgramData\Bloonix\Agent\log\bloonix-agent.log

Edit the configuration file main.conf and configure the server{} and host{} sections as needed.

The agent is installed as a Windows service named bloonix-agent and can be managed via the command line (run cmd.exe as Administrator):

sc query bloonix-agent
sc start bloonix-agent
sc stop bloonix-agent

After the initial installation, the agent is not started automatically, as it is assumed that the configuration file needs to be adjusted first.
Once the configuration is complete, the agent can be started manually with:

sc start bloonix-agent