Is it possible to install pmm3-client on Centos 6.10

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
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Description:

I have some MySQL instances running on some very old Centos, e.g. 6.10, when I run the pmm-agent setup command, it raises errors complaining FATAL: kernel too old, is there anyway to workaround this? I know Centos 6.10 is very old, but we can not upgrade it soon.

Steps to Reproduce:

Version:

pmm-client 3.0.0

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Hi @Luke03011,

No, I don’t think there is a way to make it work on CentOS 6.1 out of the box. You cat try to build it for CentOS 6.1, but that can be a substantial effort.

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Thanks for your quick response. But I think I can install pmm3-client on a remote host and use it to monitor the MySQL instances running on the Centos6.10 host?

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Absolutely! That allows you to not depend on the type of environment your database is running in.

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Hi @ademidoff I use the PMM UI to add a new remote MySQL instance, it succeeded to fetch the MySQL metrics but I found the remote host metrics is missing, can pmm-client also collect the remote host metrics, e.g CPU, network, disk metrics?

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Unfortunately, not in this scenario. PMM is only able to collect node metrics when its node_exporter runs on the monitored host, which is not the case here.