Installing Grafana is more difficult than installing InfluxDB. We have no RPM package for ppc64le, so you have to do a lot of things manually.
As always first things first. The filesystem for grafana:
[root@myserver ~]# lvcreate -L1G -n grafana rhel
Logical volume "grafana" created.
[root@myserver ~]# mkfs.xfs /dev/rhel/grafana
meta-data=/dev/rhel/grafana isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=65536 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1
= crc=1 finobt=0, sparse=0
data = bsize=4096 blocks=262144, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
log =Internes Protokoll bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =keine extsz=4096 block
[root@myserver ~]# echo '/dev/mapper/rhel-grafana /srv/grafana xfs defaults 0 1' >>/etc/fstab
[root@myserver ~]# mkdir /srv/grafana
[root@myserver ~]# mount /srv/grafana
Now download Grafana and some useful snippets:
[root@myserver ~]# curl -O https://dl.power-devops.com/grafana-6.2.5.rhel7-ppc64le.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 30.1M 100 30.1M 0 0 111k 0 0:04:36 0:04:36 --:--:-- 89968
[root@myserver ~]# curl -o /etc/sysconfig/grafana-server https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/grafana/master/packaging/rpm/sysconfig/grafana-server
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 384 100 384 0 0 1230 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:— 1230
[root@myserver ~]# curl -o /etc/systemd/system/grafana-server.service https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/grafana/master/packaging/rpm/systemd/grafana-server.service
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1150 100 1150 0 0 3402 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:— 3402
Update /etc/sysconfig/grafana-server with your settings:
GRAFANA_HOME=/srv/grafana
DATA_DIR=/srv/grafana/data
PLUGINS_DIR=/srv/grafana/plugins
Add a separate user for grafana:
[root@myserver ~]# useradd -c 'grafana user' -d /srv/grafana -M -s /sbin/nologin -U -r grafana
Now unpack grafana tarball and make initial configuration:
[root@myserver ~]# cd /srv/grafana
[root@myserver grafana]# tar --strip-components=1 -xzf grafana-6.2.5.rhel7-ppc64le.tar.gz
[root@myserver grafana]# mkdir /var/log/grafana /etc/grafana /etc/grafana/provisioning /srv/grafana/data /srv/grafana/plugins
[root@myserver grafana]# chown grafana:grafana /var/log/grafana /srv/grafana/data /srv/grafana/plugins
[root@myserver grafana]# cp /srv/grafana/conf/sample.ini /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
[root@myserver grafana]# cp /srv/grafana/conf/ldap.toml /etc/grafana/ldap.toml
[root@myserver grafana]# mkdir /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards /etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources
[root@myserver grafana]# cp /srv/grafana/conf/provisioning/dashboards/sample.yaml /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/sample.yaml
[root@myserver grafana]# cp /srv/grafana/conf/provisioning/datasources/sample.yaml /etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources/sample.yaml
[root@myserver grafana]# mkdir /etc/grafana/provisioning/notifiers
[root@myserver grafana]# cp /srv/grafana/conf/provisioning/notifiers/sample.yaml /etc/grafana/provisioning/notifiers/sample.yaml
[root@myserver grafana]# chown -Rh root:grafana /etc/grafana/*
[root@myserver grafana]# chmod 755 /etc/grafana
[root@myserver grafana]# find /etc/grafana -type f -exec chmod 640 {} ';'
[root@myserver grafana]# find /etc/grafana -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ';'
Almost done. Now a small correction in /etc/systemd/system/grafana-server.service
WorkingDirectory=/srv/grafana
ExecStart=/srv/grafana/bin/grafana-server \
Don't forget slash at the end!
And now we can start it.
[root@myserver ~]# systemctl daemon-reload
[root@myserver ~]# systemctl enable grafana-server
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/grafana-server.service to /etc/systemd/system/grafana-server.service.
[root@myserver ~]# systemctl start grafana-server
[root@myserver ~]# systemctl status grafana-server
● grafana-server.service - Grafana instance
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/grafana-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sa 2019-07-06 19:39:41 GMT; 57s ago
Docs: http://docs.grafana.org
Main PID: 7528 (grafana-server)
CGroup: /system.slice/grafana-server.service
└─7528 /srv/grafana/bin/grafana-server --config=/etc/grafana/grafana.ini --pidfile=/var/run/grafana/grafana-server.p...
Don't forget about firewall if you have it:
[root@myserver ~]# firewall-cmd --add-port 3000/tcp
success
[root@myserver ~]# firewall-cmd --add-port 3000/tcp --permanent
success