Package Managers

Redhat

Installation and upgrade of the Harvest package may require root or administrator privileges

Download the latest rpm of Harvest from the releases tab and install or upgrade with yum.

sudo yum install harvest.XXX.rpm

Once the installation has finished, edit the harvest.yml configuration file located in /opt/harvest/harvest.yml

After editing /opt/harvest/harvest.yml, manage Harvest with systemctl start|stop|restart harvest.

After upgrade, re-import all dashboards (either bin/harvest grafana import cli or via the Grafana UI) to get any new enhancements in dashboards.

To ensure that you don't run into permission issues, make sure you manage Harvest using systemctl instead of running the harvest binary directly.

Changes install makes

• Directories /var/log/harvest/ and /var/log/run/ are created
• A harvest user and group are created and the installed files are chowned to harvest
• Systemd /etc/systemd/system/harvest.service file is created and enabled

Debian

Installation and upgrade of the Harvest package may require root or administrator privileges

Download the latest deb of Harvest from the releases tab and install or upgrade with apt.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install|upgrade ./harvest-<RELEASE>.amd64.deb  

Once the installation has finished, edit the harvest.yml configuration file located in /opt/harvest/harvest.yml

After editing /opt/harvest/harvest.yml, manage Harvest with systemctl start|stop|restart harvest.

After upgrade, re-import all dashboards (either bin/harvest grafana import cli or via the Grafana UI) to get any new enhancements in dashboards.

To ensure that you don't run into permission issues, make sure you manage Harvest using systemctl instead of running the harvest binary directly.

Changes install makes

• Directories /var/log/harvest/ and /var/log/run/ are created
• A harvest user and group are created and the installed files are chowned to harvest
• Systemd /etc/systemd/system/harvest.service file is created and enabled