Opsview 6.8.x End of Support

With the release of Opsview 6.11.0 on February 2025, versions 6.8.x have reached their End of Support (EOS) status, according to our Support policy. This means that versions 6.8.x will no longer receive code fixes or security updates.

The documentation for version 6.8.9 and earlier versions will remain accessible for the time being, but it will no longer be updated or receive backports. We strongly recommend upgrading to the latest version of Opsview to ensure continued support and access to the latest features and security enhancements.

DataStore Server

The Opsview Datastore is a persistent NoSQL database. As of current release the datastore uses version 2.2.0 of Apache couchdb.

Dependencies Copied

It uses our version of Erlang - opsview-erlang.

Installation Copied

Refer to Advanced Automated Installation.

Configuration Copied

We ship the opsview-datastore with the configuration tuned for high-performance. Any configuration overrides should be placed in a .ini file in /opt/opsview/datastore/etc/local.d directory.

Management Copied

Debians Copied

Watchdog service files are now managed by the package, doing a remove would leave the watchdog service file behind with a .save extension. Purging the package will remove it. The package managed config files are as follows:

RPMs Copied

Watchdog service files are now managed by the package. Any modifications will be saved at upgrade and remove time.

Note

For hostname changes, datastore as an Erlang component does not handle hostname changes well and reconfiguration or reinstallation is required.

Opsview Datastore logs via syslog using local6 facility.

As root, start, stop and restart the service using:

/opt/opsview/watchdog/bin/opsview-monit <start|stop|restart> opsview-datastore
["Opsview On-Premises"] ["User Guide"] "1"

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