How to Install MCollective on Windows

Introduction

Mcollective is a framwork that help you run parallel jobs.

In this guide I will show how to install Mcollective server and on a windows server.

Tested On

OS: Windows Datacenter 2008 R2
Mcollective version: 2.0.0
Hardware: Virtual Machine (AWS AMI)

Prerequisite

• Install Puppet agent for windows from https://puppetlabs.com/misc/download-options/

Install MCollective

• Install Ruby 1.8.7 from https://rubyinstaller.org/

During the installation, select Add ruby executables to your path
and Associate .rb files with this Ruby installation

• Download and Install MCollective from https://www.kermit.fr/repo/windows/bin/mcollective_Setup.exe

• Configure C:mcollectiveetcserver.cfg

topicprefix = /topic/
main_collective = mcollective
collectives = mcollective
libdir = C:mcollectiveplugins
logfile = C:mcollectivemcollective.log
loglevel = info
daemonize = 1

# Plugins
securityprovider = psk
plugin.psk = unset

connector = stompplugin.stomp.host = puppet.humus.complugin.stomp.port = 61613plugin.stomp.user = mcollectiveplugin.stomp.password = marionette

# Facts
factsource = yaml
plugin.yaml = C:mcollectiveetcfacts.yaml

• Open a cmd shell and install stomp gem

gem install stomp

• Start “The Marionette Collective” Service from windows services

• Test the installation: from the puppet server run:

mco ping

For more information about MCollective windows installation please visit https://www.kermit.fr/documentation/mcollective/windows_install.html