Facette is an open-source visualisation tool for time series databases, which allows you to monitor and analyze data in real-time. In this tutorial, we will be going through the process of installing Facette on FreeBSD Latest.
We will assume that FreeBSD Latest is installed and running on your computer or server. You will also need to have administrative access.
Before we can start the installation of Facette, we need to install the dependencies that it requires. Run the following command in your terminal:
sudo pkg install -y wget git gmake gcc autoconf automake libtool bison flex
Next, navigate to the directory where you want to install Facette and clone the repository:
cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/facette/facette.git
This will create a directory called "facette" in the "/opt" directory.
Next, we need to build and install Facette. Navigate to the "facette" directory and run the following commands:
cd facette
sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
Facette runs as an unprivileged user "facette". In order to create this user, run the following command:
sudo pw useradd facette -s /sbin/nologin -d /usr/local/facette
Now that we have installed Facette, we need to configure it. Copy the default configuration file to the Facette directory:
sudo cp contrib/facette.conf.sample /usr/local/facette/facette.conf
Change the owner of the Facette directory and files:
sudo chown -R facette /usr/local/facette/
Finally, we can start Facette by running the following command:
sudo -u facette /usr/local/bin/facette -c /usr/local/facette/facette.conf
Once Facette is running, you can open a web browser and access it by typing http://localhost:12003 in the address bar. If you want to access Facette from a remote machine, replace "localhost" with the IP address of the server running Facette.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Facette on FreeBSD Latest! You can now use Facette to monitor and analyse time series data.
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