8. Installation of InfluxDB on FreeBSD 11.2 - tanalam2411/freebsd GitHub Wiki

Installation of InfluxDB on FreeBSD 11.2

1 . Search for InfluxDB package

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb # pkg search influxdb
influxdb-1.6.2                 Open-source distributed time series database
py27-influxdb-5.0.0_1          Python Client for InfluxDB
py36-influxdb-5.0.0_1          Python Client for InfluxDB

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2 . Install InfluxDB

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb # pkg install influxdb-1.6.2

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3 . Start influxd service

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb # service influxd onestart

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4 . To have InfluxDB start at system boot, add influxd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb # vi /etc/rc.conf

# add this at end of the file
influxd_enable="YES"

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5 . Create admin user

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb # influx
Connected to http://localhost:8086 version 1.6.2
InfluxDB shell version: 1.6.2
> create user testuser with password 'testpassword'
> grant all privileges to testuser

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6 . Create database by name testdb

> CREATE DATABASE testdb
> use testdb
Using database testdb
> exit
root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb #