How does one restart PMM 2.0 on the virtual appliance?

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) PMM 2.x
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Hi all,

I am trying to figure out what the overall command is to restart PMM, particularly after adding SMTP settings for smtp2go to grafana.ini because I couldn’t find where in the UI to set that up. This being, so new users get their invitation emails (is there something I’m missing there as well?)

Thank you!

Patrick

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This assumes you’re using docker and don’t want to restart the whole container:

docker exec <pmm-server-container-name> supervisorctl restart grafana

if you’re OVF or AMI, ssh to the machine and just run the supervisorctl part at the end.

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Forgot to add…this, as far as I know, is the only way to setup SMTP…you can do so many things through the UI but not edit the grafana.ini.

when I start my container I pass the values in as environment variables because as we make upgrades to PMM sometimes its necessary to overwrite the grafana.ini file and you’ll lose your changes:
-e GF_SMTP_ENABLED=true -e GF_SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com:587 -e GF_SMTP_USER=<username_to_auth_with> -e GF_SMTP_PASSWORD=<password_to_auth_with> -e GF_SMTP_SKIP_VERIFY=false -e GF_SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS=<email_from_address> -e GF_SMTP_FROM_NAME=<email_from_friendly_name>

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With the OVA, you should be able to restart grafana like any other service: systemctl restart grafana

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grafana isn’t loaded as part of systemd, only as supervisord thus supervisord restart grafana will do it.