Installation of a Client

If you already have a hostinfo installed and you need to create another command line client follow these instructions.

Install the database client. See Postgresql or MySQL

Install the appropriate python3 and python3-devel packages for your operating system. See Installation for details

Make the hostinfo user and installation directory

mkdir /opt/hostinfo
useradd hostinfo -d /opt/hostinfo
chown hostinfo:hostinfo /opt/hostinfo

Get the code from git (as hostinfo user) or use the tarball method:

cd /opt/hostinfo
git clone https://github.com/dwagon/Hostinfo.git

Now create the virtual environment (as hostinfo user)

python3 -m venv /opt/hostinfo
source /opt/hostinfo/bin/activate
cd /opt/hostinfo/Hostinfo && pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit the settings file (/opt/hostinfo/Hostinfo/hostinfo/hostinfo/settings.py - yes that is a lot of hostinfos)

Change the username, password and host in DATABASE to match what there is in the server. Ensure that the database is accessible from the client host.

Link the executables to somewhere findable, or put /opt/hostinfo/Hostinfo/bin in your path

cd /opt/hostinfo/Hostinfo/bin
for i in *
    do
        ln -s /opt/hostinfo/Hostinfo/bin/$i /usr/local/bin/$i
    done