Docker compose

Let’s create an installation directory under a docker folder in our servers home folder

mkdir -p ~/docker/monitee-agent && cd ~/docker/monitee-agent

Then let’s create the config/ and data/ directories

mkdir config && mkdir data

The server expects a configuration.yml in the configuration directory. Let’s download the latest one using wget

cd config

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Krillsson/monitee-agent/refs/heads/master/config/configuration.yml
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Krillsson/monitee-agent/refs/heads/master/config/application.properties

Use your favorite text editor to edit the user & password of the config

nano configuration.yml

Then press CTRL+X to exit nano (and press Y to save)

Now we can download the latest docker-compose.yml and make our edits to it using nano

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Krillsson/monitee-agent/master/docker-compose.yml

Remember to swap out the volume mounts for the config/ and data/ directories

Want to monitor the temperature of disks? Each disk you’d like to monitor has to be added to a devices section in the compose file. List disks on your system using the command lsblk –nodeps -n -o name

devices:
  - "/dev/sda:/dev/sda"

Want to manage systemd services and read the journal? Uncomment the systemd mounts in the volumes section of the compose file. They are off by default because not every Docker host uses systemd.

- /run/systemd:/run/systemd
- /etc/machine-id:/etc/machine-id:ro
- /run/systemd/journal/socket:/run/systemd/journal/socket:ro
- /run/log/journal:/run/log/journal:ro

Then we can start the container

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up

Let’s verify the server started correctly

docker logs --follow --tail 200 monitee-agent

If you see this message without any error after it. That means the server is up and running

[...]: Tomcat started on ports 8443 (https), 8080 (http) with context path '/'
[...]: Started SysAPIApplicationKt in 6.352 seconds (process running for 7.234)

Now you are ready to proceed to next step

Connect App to Server