About PMM client installation

There are different ways to install PMM Client on a node and register it with PMM Server. Choose from:

• Docker: Run PMM Client as a Docker container.

• Package manager:

  • On Debian or Red Hat Linux, install percona-release and use a Linux package manager (apt/dnf) to install PMM Client.
  • On Debian or Red Hat, download .deb/.rpm PMM Client packages and manually install them.

Binary is only way to install PMM client without root permissions

• Binary package: For other Linux distributions, download and unpack generic PMM Client Linux binaries.

When you have installed PMM Client, you must:

• Register the node with PMM Server.
• Configure and add services according to type.

If you need to, you can unregister, remove services or remove PMM Client.

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Here’s an overview of the choices.

Before you start

Before installing the PMM client, check Prerequisites to install PMM client.

Connect services

You must configure and adding services according to the service type.

• MySQL (and variants Percona Server for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MariaDB)
• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL
• ProxySQL
• Amazon RDS
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud Platform (MySQL and PostgreSQL)
• Linux
• External services
• HAProxy
• Remote instances

Tip

To change the parameters of a previously-added service, remove the service and re-add it with new parameters.

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