Post Installation Tasks
After you install the Paragon Automation cluster, you can use Paragon Shell to perform the following additional optional tasks:
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Ensure that the installed cluster is healthy and operational.
Execute the
request paragon health-check
command. TheOverall Cluster Status
must beGREEN
. For example:root@primary1> request paragon health-check Health status checking... ======================================================= Get node count of Kubernetes cluster. ======================================================= OK There are 4 nodes in the cluster. ... <output snipped> ... ====================================================== Verifying Elasticsearch ====================================================== OK Opensearch test... Checking health status at opensearch-cluster-master.common:9200... Opensearch is healthy (green). OPENSEARCH VERIFICATION PASS ======================================================= Overall cluster status ======================================================= GREEN
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Configure the PCE server. See Configure PCE Server.
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Configure SMTP-based user management. See Configure SMTP Settings in Paragon Shell.
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Install custom user certificates. See Install User Certificates.
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Back up your Paragon Automation cluster configuration. See Back Up Using Paragon Shell.
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Configure monitoring in Paragon Automation to collect metrics from different types of sources and forward the collected data to designated sinks. See Configure Monitoring.
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Update the Victoria Metrics cluster configuration parameters. See Update Victoria Metrics.
Update Victoria Metrics
Update the Victoria Metrics cluster configuration parameters. Victoria-metrics is a time series database. Different microservices populate the database and query data using the APIs provided by Victoria metrics.