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Lights out install via bash script of TrueSight Pulse Meter

Example Meter Install via Shell Script

Example of a lights out install via bash script of TrueSight Pulse Meter for the following operating system environments:

• Centos 7.0
• Centos 6.6
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 14.04

Prerequisites

• Vagrant 1.7.2 or later. Vagrant can be downloaded here
• VirtualBox 4.3.2.6 or later. VirtualBox can be downloaded here

Installation

Getting Started

The TrueSight Pulse meter is installed on each of the virtual machines via the install.sh script. TrueSight Pulse Meter installation requires that the api token be known at install time. The TrueSight Pulse API Token can be found in the Settings -> Account dialog in the TrueSight Pulse web interface. The installation script requires that the API token value is present in an environment variable named, API_TOKEN.

List of Platforms to Virtual Machine Mapping

The table below provides the mapping of platform to virtual machine name that is used later to start a virtual machine for testing plugins.

Platform	Virtual Machine Name
Centos 6.6	centos-6.6
Centos 7.0	centos-7.0
Ubuntu 12.04	ubuntu-12.04
Ubuntu 14.04	ubuntu-14.04

Starting a Virtual Machine

With the TrueSight Pulse API token perform the following:

1. Either checkout or clone the git repository ()[]
2. Issue the following command, the target platforms are listed in the table below:

$ API_TOKEN=<api token> vagrant up <virtual machine name>

Stopping a Virtual Machine

$ vagrant halt <virtual machine name>

Destroying a Virtual Machine

$ vagrant destroy <virtual machine name>