The MyARM agent library can be configured through configuration files (See Appendix Configuration). MyARM needs to find the configuration files during start up. This is achieved by using environment variables.

The following environment variables can be set to specify the location of the configuration files and to set a valid license key. The easiest way to do this is to use the provided setup.sh script found in the scripts directory of the MyARM installation.

Please note that you have to source this script in order to set the environment variables in the current shell!

scripts/setup.sh

The setup.sh script is used to setup a MyARM environment in an easy way. The script tests your shell environment and modifies the following system environment variables to enable the full usage of MyARM:

PATH

is modified to add the path to the MyARM programs so that any MyARM program can be executed.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH

is modified to enable the runtime linker to find MyARM shared libraries (LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux).

MANPATH

is modified to add the MyARM man page directory to the search path of the man system.

MYSQL_UNIX_PORT

is set to the MySQL port as used by the current system. If this could not be determined, a warning message is issued.

MONO_PATH

is modified if MyARM comes with C# support. It adds the path for the MyARM assemblies.

To work properly, the following MyARM specific environment variables are set:

MYARM_ROOT

root directory of the MyARM installation.

MYARM_VARRUN_DIR

directory where to store any runtime data such as pid files or temporarily used files.

MYARM_VARLOG_DIR

directory where to store any log files.

MYARM_VARLIB_DIR

directory where to store any files which need to be persistent, such as SQLite databases or MyARM ARM data files.

MYARM_CONFIG_URL

contains the configuration end point in URL notation. For more information read section MYARM_CONFIG_URL.

MYARM_LICENSE_KEY

contains the license key for MyARM. This key is extracted from some configuration files. For more information see section "License key".

Usage:

$ . scripts/setup.sh [-q] [config]

The "-q" option suppresses any warning and the basic configuration output. The optional "config" parameter specifies a configuration to be used. This configuration must reside in the $MYARM_ROOT/conf or $MYARM_ROOT/conf/templates directory.

Typical usage of the setup.sh script, which configures MyARM in the current shell to use the myarmdaemon to receive data sent by the tcp datasink and store the ARM data into MySQL database:

user@localhost:/opt/myarm$ . scripts/setup.sh tcp_mysql.conf

MyARM environment variables

MYARM_CONFIG_URL

The MYARM_CONFIG_URL environment variable is used to specify the MyARM configuration file. It uses the common URL notation of the form <protocol>://<host>:<port>/<filepath>. Currently, the following <protocol> types are supported:

file

specifies a local configuration file.

For example, if you want to specify a global <filepath> you have to use two slashes after the protocol indicator, resulting in the following setup:

MYARM_CONFIG_URL=file:////opt/myarm/conf/foo.conf
export MYARM_CONFIG_URL

$ myarmquery FooTran FooApp

MYARM_LICENSE_KEY

If the MYARM_LICENSE_KEY environment variable is set and is not empty, it contains the license key to deploy the MyARM components on this host.

MYARM_VARRUN_DIR

This variable is used within the configuration files to reference the directory where to store runtime data like pid files or temporary data.

MYARM_VARLOG_DIR

This variable is used within the configuration files to reference the directory where to log messages.

MYARM_VARLIB_DIR

This variable is used within the configuration files to reference the directory where to store persistent data such as a SQLite database file or ARM data files.

MYARM_TRACE

With the MYARM_TRACE environment variable it is possible to enable diagnostic trace messages during configuration and initialization of the MyARM agent to the standard error channel. Currently, the following options are supported, which can be combined using a comma character as the delimiter:

none

no tracing at all.

all

enables all the following trace options.

init

enables tracing of initialization and cleanup of the MyARM agent.

env

enables tracing output of all used environment variables.

config

enables tracing output of all configuration properties.

readcfg

enables tracing of reading configuration files.

For example:

export MYARM_TRACE=init,env
export MYARM_TRACE=all