Local InfluxDB + GrafAna Setup

Links

The following is only accessible from the internal PP network.

• InfluxDB
• GrafAna
• Graphite - Old system used for most of the cleanroom monitoring.

The old eplvm003 server is now defunct.

External Access

To access the monitoring tools from an external network you need to setup a proxy. The following directions are based on Accessing Internal Webpages from Outside CERN.

1. Setup UoB VPN to get access to the PP computers by following UoB Remote Working: VPN.
2. Follow the instructions from the CERN documentation to create a *.pac file with the following contents and configure your browser to use it.

function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
     if(host == "eprex5.ph.bham.ac.uk") {
            return "SOCKS5 127.0.0.1:9991"
     }
         // All other requests go directly to the 'Net':
         return "DIRECT";
}

1. Setup a tunnel use with the proxy.

ssh -D 9991 eprexb.ph.bham.ac.uk

GrafAna Data Sources

The Flux language employed by InfluxDB v2 is not fully supported by GrafAna. If desparate, you can bypass this by creating a virtual DataBase and Retention Policy mapping.