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Hello, 

I have PF Sense installed and I am trying to monitor my bandwidth. I have found this article here https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/ckeuue/monitoring_bandwidth_usage_on_pfsense/ and trying to specifically follow this advice, "Do this:: Install telegraf on PFsense. Create a VM and install Grafana and influxdb."

Instead of telegraf I plan on using Logstash. Currently, I have ntopng installed on PFsense with some data (currently the time-series driver is set to RRD). I am trying to follow this article to get this all setup and functioning, https://www.ntop.org/ntop/ntopng-influxdb-and-grafana-a-step-by-step-guide-to-create-dashboards/

I would like to eventually see if i can save that RRD data somewhere and then import it to influx or elsewhere and then display it in Grafana, that is later on though. If i cant do that I don't care that is more for testing purposes. 

My goal right now is to get influxdb installed and setup, I plan on setting ntopng to the InfluxDB times-series driver, have that data go to influxdb, then influxdb go to grafana.

I am having issues installing Influxdb, any help would be appreciated. I am new to this site of IT (grafana, influxdb, rrd,etc.).  

I am running windows10 and I have followed this setup to install Influxdb https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.2/install/?t=Windows but it isn't working, I've even found a video on how to install it and I do not get their results, the video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-HDESdFt18&ab_channel=BrysonKaranja

A screenshot of my results is below. I have never really used PowerShell much except to run things that I already know work.

I would like to get this setup and actually completed and able to collect and display data properly by the end of the day because 1. my data cap ends 5/14/22 and then i start a new cycle for data so I would love to have this main part setup so then I can start tweaking how everything displays etc.

Any help is appreciated thanks in advance.

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  • It looks like you don't have 'influxd' (the database daemon) but the CLI ? (influx.exe? )


    What I did:

    1. Go here: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.2/install/?t=Windows

    2. Downloaded: https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb2-2.2.0-windows-amd64.zip

    3. Unzip it into a destination folder (e.g.  C:\Program Files\InfluxData\)

    4. Open PowerShell Navigate to the place you unzipped it and run the'influxd.exe.exe  (idk why they have 2 .exe ...)

    and that seems to work fine

    I'm not sure what you are expecting once the database is installed?

    I am not familiar with influx idk if it has a GUI or whatever.

    Also, if you close that powershell window where you called it from, the DB service will stop again, so you want to call it as a service or a schedule task.



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    • Try the other slash .\ as well as place an & before the command to run it literally. & .\command.exe Or even & cmd /c .\command.exe
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    • Type the letter i at the prompt then hit the tab key. It will autocomplete and show you all files that start with i each time you hit tab(cycle through) and will put the proper qualifier in front of it.

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    • Bappy​ I tried that but no luck. Results below. For reference, the file path that I have currently is displayed as well as the contents side by side w/the PowerShell window. I didn't think to share that in the original post.

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    • jrp78​ Thank you. I just tried that and cycled through all of them. No clue what they mean but the one it gave me that seemed relevant is below but that didn't work either. It seemed to be the same command I tried before. There were a lot of options as I tab'd through but maybe I just don't know the right one to use but the instructions provided above in the vid and link seemed to be simple enough but something is missing or I'm am not doing something correctly and I cant figure out what.


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    • Ok I see. What they are saying is you have to add a command after the exe. It’s showing all available options.

      Example:

      Text
      .\influx.exe version
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    • Looks like the first (& .\command.exe) one accepted the command,  but it needs further properties to proceed.

      On the second try, it appears you have 2 dots.....

      should be:

      c:\path\\prompt>& cmd /c .\command.exe

      Looks as if you are getting closer.

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    • jrp78​ this is the result when I tried that, it displayed the version but not sure what next.

      I tried this and I got a little closer, I think the Error is closer than the other part I tried beneath it.


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    • Bappy​ this is what I got when I tried that, at least I think it did what you stated correctly(?). It just seems to list commands I could run not run the program.


      In the video link above all they did was pretty much hit enter and it would run. they just dragged and dropped the file into Power Shell and it would display the whole file path and then hit enter and it would install. I tried doing the same thing and it never worked.

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    • It looks like you don't have 'influxd' (the database daemon) but the CLI ? (influx.exe? )


      What I did:

      1. Go here: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.2/install/?t=Windows

      2. Downloaded: https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb2-2.2.0-windows-amd64.zip

      3. Unzip it into a destination folder (e.g.  C:\Program Files\InfluxData\)

      4. Open PowerShell Navigate to the place you unzipped it and run the'influxd.exe.exe  (idk why they have 2 .exe ...)

      and that seems to work fine

      I'm not sure what you are expecting once the database is installed?

      I am not familiar with influx idk if it has a GUI or whatever.

      Also, if you close that powershell window where you called it from, the DB service will stop again, so you want to call it as a service or a schedule task.



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    • You should do .\influx.exe setup

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    • In case anyone is curious, I figured it out. What I came to realize is there are 2 Influxdb files. 1 is influxdb (2.2.0-windows-amd64) and the other is influx CLI (client-2.3.0-windows-amd64).

      Below is the screenshot of the program running and installing. 


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    • TravelMore wrote:

      In case anyone is curious, I figured it out. What I came to realize is there are 2 Influxdb files. 1 is influxdb (2.2.0-windows-amd64) and the other is influx CLI (client-2.3.0-windows-amd64).

      haha it says that in big letters on the website and I linked it too, glad you got it figured out! silly databases

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