# Start pmm client on docker container for monitoring remote instances

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**Category:** PMM 1.x\
**Created:** [November 13, 2016, 7:41am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/start-pmm-client-on-docker-container-for-monitoring-remote-instances/5204 "2016-11-13T07:41:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![LucaI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@LucaI](https://forums.percona.com/u/LucaI)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 7:41am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/start-pmm-client-on-docker-container-for-monitoring-remote-instances/5204/1 "2016-11-13T07:41:52Z")

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I’m trying to start pmm client on a docker container to monitor query of a remote Percona server where it’s not possible to install pmm, as for example for AWS RDS service. I can exec this command sequence at container startup

pmm-admin config --client-name mypmmclient --server perconapmmhost  
pmm-admin --host perconahost --user root --password root add mysql  
pmm-admin list  
pmm-admin start --all

with such logs (actually percona server is on another container on localhost)

OK, PMM server is alive.

PMM Server | perconapmmhost  
Client Name | 09e3b496d586  
Client Address | 172.19.0.8  
[linux:metrics] OK, now monitoring this system.  
[mysql:metrics] OK, now monitoring MySQL metrics using DSN root:git03  
[mysql:queries] OK, now monitoring MySQL queries from perfschema using DSN root:git03  
pmm-admin 1.0.5

PMM Server | perconapmmhost  
Client Name | 09e3b496d586  
Client Address | 172.19.0.8  
Service manager | unix-systemv

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SERVICE TYPE NAME CLIENT PORT RUNNING DATA SOURCE OPTIONS

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linux:metrics 09e3b496d586 42000 YES -  
mysql:queries 09e3b496d586 42001 YES root:git03 query\_source=perfschema  
mysql:metrics 09e3b496d586 42002 YES root:git03

My problem is that I don’t know how to run percona-qan-agent in container and I’m not able to monitor queries. I’m trying to use docker container for pmm-client to setup a “portable” version in the same way as pmm-server.

Thanks  
Luca

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**Author:** ![weber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/da6949/32.png) [@weber](https://forums.percona.com/u/weber)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/start-pmm-client-on-docker-container-for-monitoring-remote-instances/5204/2 "2016-11-14T05:23:52Z")

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pmm-admin manages system services dynamically using service manager available. In your case, it is unix-systemv.  
percona-qan-agent and installer are managed by pmm-admin and the corresponding service is created the same way as for metric services.