How to install MCollective on EndeavourOS Latest

MCollective is a powerful tool for orchestrating and managing large-scale, datacenter environments. By using MCollective, system administrators can automate and manage tasks across multiple servers at once.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MCollective on EndeavourOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure your system is up to date by running the following command:

sudo pacman -Syu

Step 1: Install Puppet

MCollective is distributed with Puppet. If you don't have Puppet installed on your system, you will need to do so before proceeding.

To install Puppet, run the following command:

sudo pacman -S puppet

Step 2: Install MCollective

Once Puppet is installed, you can install MCollective by running the following command:

sudo gem install stomp mcollective

This will install the MCollective client and server components, as well as the STOMP Ruby gem.

Step 3: Configure MCollective

To configure MCollective, you will need to create a configuration file called server.cfg in the /etc/mcollective directory. You can do this by running the following command:

sudo nano /etc/mcollective/server.cfg

Add the following lines to the configuration file:

plugin.activemq.pool.size = 1
plugin.activemq.pool.1.host = localhost
plugin.activemq.pool.1.port = 61613

Save and exit the file.

Step 4: Start the MCollective server

To start the MCollective server, run the following command:

sudo /usr/bin/mcollectived

Step 5: Test MCollective

To test that MCollective is working, you can run the following command to display a list of all nodes connected to the MCollective server:

sudo /usr/bin/mco ping

You should see a list of all nodes that are connected to the MCollective server.

Congratulation! You have successfully installed MCollective on EndeavourOS Latest.