Installing Netdata on CentOS 7

hobbit666

If you have a local desktop you could navigate to http://localhost:19999/ to see the output. It's that easy. However, who has a Linux server like that? So instead we need to see this remotely. Using SSH this is very simple:
ssh you.host.com -L 19999:127.0.0.1:19999
Now from your local web browser just look at http://localhost:19999/ instead!

Don't fully get this step?
Is this so I can see the dashboard from another host?
Is you.host.com then name of the remote machine or the one that you just install Netdata on?

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said:

Is you.host.com then name of the remote machine or the one that you just install Netdata on?

Yes. Those two are one and the same.

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said:

Don't fully get this step?
Is this so I can see the dashboard from another host?

Yes, so that you can see the Netdata dashboard from where you are sitting without needing to have it exposed to the world in any way. No ports open at all.

hobbit666

So if I wanted to see the dashboard from a windows machine?

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said:

So if I wanted to see the dashboard from a windows machine?

Exactly. But you need to enter the SSH options into Putty instead of putting them onto the command line, of course. As always... extra steps to do it in Windows

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@hobbit666 said:

So if I wanted to see the dashboard from a windows machine?

Exactly. But you need to enter the SSH options into Putty instead of putting them onto the command line, of course. As always... extra steps to do it in Windows

Until this summer, at least on Windows 10.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@hobbit666 said:

So if I wanted to see the dashboard from a windows machine?

Exactly. But you need to enter the SSH options into Putty instead of putting them onto the command line, of course. As always... extra steps to do it in Windows

Until this summer, at least on Windows 10.

Why?

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@hobbit666 said:

So if I wanted to see the dashboard from a windows machine?

Exactly. But you need to enter the SSH options into Putty instead of putting them onto the command line, of course. As always... extra steps to do it in Windows

Until this summer, at least on Windows 10.

Why?

Because Windows 10 may have a native SSH client built in?

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@hobbit666 said:

So if I wanted to see the dashboard from a windows machine?

Exactly. But you need to enter the SSH options into Putty instead of putting them onto the command line, of course. As always... extra steps to do it in Windows

Until this summer, at least on Windows 10.

Why?

Because Windows 10 may have a native SSH client built in?

That would be the assumption, but I've heard nothing about that. Seems like that would be big news.

BASH and WSL I know about, but SSH I've not heard mentioned or implied until now.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@hobbit666 said:

So if I wanted to see the dashboard from a windows machine?

Exactly. But you need to enter the SSH options into Putty instead of putting them onto the command line, of course. As always... extra steps to do it in Windows

Until this summer, at least on Windows 10.

Why?

Because Windows 10 may have a native SSH client built in?

That would be the assumption, but I've heard nothing about that. Seems like that would be big news.

BASH and WSL I know about, but SSH I've not heard mentioned or implied until now.

From ARS: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/microsoft-bringing-ssh-to-windows-and-powershell/

and

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/06/03/looking-forward-microsoft-support-for-secure-shell-ssh/

I don't see it dethroning putty, et al for quite some time. But nice to know its coming.

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@hobbit666 said:

So if I wanted to see the dashboard from a windows machine?

Exactly. But you need to enter the SSH options into Putty instead of putting them onto the command line, of course. As always... extra steps to do it in Windows

Until this summer, at least on Windows 10.

Why?

Because Windows 10 may have a native SSH client built in?

That would be the assumption, but I've heard nothing about that. Seems like that would be big news.

BASH and WSL I know about, but SSH I've not heard mentioned or implied until now.

From ARS: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/microsoft-bringing-ssh-to-windows-and-powershell/

and

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/06/03/looking-forward-microsoft-support-for-secure-shell-ssh/

I don't see it dethroning putty, et al for quite some time. But nice to know its coming.

that's very old stuff, has it been announced as actually coming? I remember this being talked about as a "someday" kind of thing. Is this actually in the works?

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@hobbit666 said:

So if I wanted to see the dashboard from a windows machine?

Exactly. But you need to enter the SSH options into Putty instead of putting them onto the command line, of course. As always... extra steps to do it in Windows

Until this summer, at least on Windows 10.

Why?

Because Windows 10 may have a native SSH client built in?

That would be the assumption, but I've heard nothing about that. Seems like that would be big news.

BASH and WSL I know about, but SSH I've not heard mentioned or implied until now.

From ARS: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/microsoft-bringing-ssh-to-windows-and-powershell/

and

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/06/03/looking-forward-microsoft-support-for-secure-shell-ssh/

I don't see it dethroning putty, et al for quite some time. But nice to know its coming.

that's very old stuff, has it been announced as actually coming? I remember this being talked about as a "someday" kind of thing. Is this actually in the works?

Here's the Git Repo for it. 8-)

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH

A lot of the folders suggest months ago, but a couple of them are as recent as a month or two and one is even 4 days ago.

Maybe some of us are just too hopeful.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@hobbit666 said:

So if I wanted to see the dashboard from a windows machine?

Exactly. But you need to enter the SSH options into Putty instead of putting them onto the command line, of course. As always... extra steps to do it in Windows

Until this summer, at least on Windows 10.

Why?

Because Windows 10 may have a native SSH client built in?

That would be the assumption, but I've heard nothing about that. Seems like that would be big news.

BASH and WSL I know about, but SSH I've not heard mentioned or implied until now.

Interesting.. in Windows Weekly, Paul Thurrott mentioned SSH specifically - maybe he was mistaken.

travisdh1

Thought I'd take a quick look at this. I like how the output looks, but agree that I wouldn't want to leave it running. The loadavg jumped just from starting to look at the output.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@hobbit666 said:

So if I wanted to see the dashboard from a windows machine?

Exactly. But you need to enter the SSH options into Putty instead of putting them onto the command line, of course. As always... extra steps to do it in Windows

Until this summer, at least on Windows 10.

Why?

Because Windows 10 may have a native SSH client built in?

That would be the assumption, but I've heard nothing about that. Seems like that would be big news.

BASH and WSL I know about, but SSH I've not heard mentioned or implied until now.

Interesting.. in Windows Weekly, Paul Thurrott mentioned SSH specifically - maybe he was mistaken.

Could easily be real and just no one is talking about it.

scottalanmiller

@travisdh1 said:

Thought I'd take a quick look at this. I like how the output looks, but agree that I wouldn't want to leave it running. The loadavg jumped just from starting to look at the output.

it would have to, that is a LOT of output!

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said:

@travisdh1 said:

Thought I'd take a quick look at this. I like how the output looks, but agree that I wouldn't want to leave it running. The loadavg jumped just from starting to look at the output.

it would have to, that is a LOT of output!

Wow, you're not kidding about that. Even gives you the current available entropy from /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail. I've never seen something give you this much information and be so easy to get running.