Grafana on IBM Power Systems

Grafana on IBM Power Systems is one of the Installation tasks that I have performed recently and below are details for reference.

Grafana installation doesn’t have a suitable package to install on IBM Power systems. When I tried to do a regular rpm install on the system, it didn’t work out.

After a search on the IBM Support portal, I came to know that there is a different package offered by another vendor to install and configure Grafana on power systems.

Click on this link, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/linux-installing-influxdb-18-and-grafana-7-and-njmon which will give details on downloading the package. Ideally, this support page is referring to download from https://www.power-devops.com/grafana

This is the package that I have used for downloading grafana product, https://dl.power-devops.com/grafana-7.3.6-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm

This is what I have done in overall

1. Create a directory, and navigate to that directory

   mkdir grafanarpm

   cd grafanarpm


2. Download the rpm file for installation
   
   wget https://dl.power-devops.com/grafana-7.3.6-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm


3. Install the file once it is downloaded. I have used a Red Hat Linux

   yum install grafana-7.3.6-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm -y


4. Start Grafana and check the status

   systemctl start grafana-server

   systemctl status grafana-server

Below screenshots for reference,

This completes the Installation of Grafana Installation on IBM Power Systems.

Download Grafana from here.