Vigil is a lightweight server for monitoring Linux machines with a web-based interface. This tutorial will guide you through installing Vigil on EndeavourOS Latest using the crate package manager.
Before we begin, you will need:
Vigil is written in Rust, so we need to install the Rust toolchain before we can install Vigil. Rust can be easily installed using the rustup script.
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
The script will prompt you to configure the Rust installation. Choose the default options if you are unsure.
After Rust is installed, you will need to add the cargo binary to your PATH. This can be done by adding the following line to your shell config file (e.g. ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc):
source $HOME/.cargo/env
To test that Rust and Cargo are installed correctly, run:
cargo --version
This should output the version of the Cargo package manager.
Vigil requires a PostgreSQL database to store its data. To install PostgreSQL on EndeavourOS, run:
sudo pacman -S postgresql
We also need to initialize the Postgres database cluster and start the PostgreSQL service:
sudo su postgres
initdb --locale $LANG -E UTF8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'
exit
sudo systemctl enable postgresql.service
sudo systemctl start postgresql.service
With Rust and PostgreSQL installed, we can now install Vigil. You can install Vigil using the cargo command:
cargo install vigil-server
This will download and build the Vigil server binary in your Cargo bin directory, which should be added automatically to your PATH.
Before we can start Vigil, we need to configure it to connect to the PostgreSQL database. Create a new file vigil.toml in a directory of your choice with the following contents:
[database]
url = "postgres://postgres@localhost/vigil"
This specifies the connection URL for the Vigil database, which in this case is a local PostgreSQL server using the default Vigil database name vigil.
With the Vigil server and database set up, we can now start the Vigil server:
vigil-server -c /path/to/vigil.toml
This will start the Vigil server with the configuration in the vigil.toml file. By default, the Vigil server listens on port 8080.
You have now successfully installed Vigil on EndeavourOS Latest and can begin monitoring your Linux machine using the web-based interface. You can customize and expand the monitoring functionality by modifying the configuration and adding additional Vigil plugins.
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