Monitoring and Management of Percona XtraDB

For this tutorial, we will install Percona Monitoring and Management server (PMM server) on a separate node and pmm-client on each database node

Prerequisites

We have three (3) different ways of running PMM server 1- Running PMM server via Docker 2- Running PMM server as a Virtual Appliance 3- Running PMM server Using AWS Marketplace

For the purpose of this tutorial, we we be running PMM server via Docker. So you will need node running Docker. I will not convert the installation of docker in this tutorial.

Getting the PMM server up and running

Download the percona/pmm-server image

Login to your docker node and run

docker images 

output

root@docker2001:~# docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
nginx               latest              ae513a47849c        9 days ago          109MB
ubuntu              latest              0458a4468cbc        3 months ago        112MB

In my case I have only 2 images no percona/pmm-server image. Lets go ahead and download the percona/pmm-server image by issuing the command

 docker pull percona/pmm-server:latest

Now if we run again the commande "docker images" we should see the percona/pmm-server image

Output

root@docker2001:~# docker images
REPOSITORY           TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
nginx                latest              ae513a47849c        9 days ago          109MB
percona/pmm-server   latest              62f64eeb6eec        2 weeks ago         842MB
ubuntu               latest              0458a4468cbc        3 months ago        112MB

Start the percona/pmm-server container

Now that we have the image available we are going to create the pmm-data container and start it using the scripts below

Script to create the container

#!/bin/bash
docker create \
  -v /opt/prometheus/data \
  -v /opt/consul-data \
  -v /var/lib/mysql \
  -v /var/lib/grafana \
  --name pmm-data \
  percona/pmm-server:latest /bin/true

Script to start the container

#!/bin/bash
docker run -d \
  -p 80:80 \
  --volumes-from pmm-data \
  --name pmm-server \
  --restart always \
  percona/pmm-server:latest

Please refer to Docker documentation for the different options used in both scripts such as -v, -p and so on

make both scripts executable my running

chmod +x pmm-data.sh 
Chmod +x pmm-run.sh

Run both scripts

./pmm-data.sh
./pmm-run.sh

Now check the list of running containers

docker ps

Output

root@docker2001:~# docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                COMMAND                CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                         NAMES
dfff2958b2b3        percona/pmm-server   "/opt/entrypoint.sh"   2 minutes ago       Up 2 minutes        0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 443/tcp   pmm-server

Open a browser and type in your IP address to access the pmm-server dashboard

Install Pmm-client on each node

We are going to use the same nodes we used in How to install Percona XtraDB Cluster. We have a total of 3 nodes (db1,db2 and db3)

Process is the same, so I will be doing the first node (db1)

login to db1, run

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install pmm-client

Connect PMM client to PMM server

To connect each pmm client to PMM server we use the command "pmm-admin config --server IP_adress_of_server" in our case the command will be

pmm-admin config --server 10.192.0.96

10.192.0.96 being our PMM server IP addres

Note: if your PMM server has a username and a password the command to use is

pmm-admin config --server pmm_server_IP --server-user username --server-password password