Installing ThingsBoard Trendz Analytics using Docker (Windows)

• Prerequisites
• Step 1. Obtain the license key
• Step 2. Checkout Trendz Analytics image on Docker Hub
• Step 3. Running
  • Authentication
• Detaching, stop and start commands
• Troubleshooting
  • DNS issues

This guide will help you to install and start Trendz Analytics using Docker on Windows.

Prerequisites

• Install Docker Toolbox for Windows

Step 1. Obtain the license key

We assume you have already have Trendz license key. If not, please get your Free Trial license before you proceed. See How-to get pay-as-you-go subscription for more details.

Note: We will reference the license key you have obtained during this step as PUT_YOUR_LICENSE_SECRET_HERE later in this guide.

Step 2. Checkout Trendz Analytics image on Docker Hub

Open official Trendz Analytics Docker Hub page and proceed to checkout. Populate basic information about yourself and click “Get Content”

Step 3. Running

Make sure your have logged in to docker hub using command line.

Windows users should use docker managed volume for Trendz Database. Create docker volume (for ex. mytrendz-data) before executing docker run command: Open “Docker Quickstart Terminal”. Execute the following command to create docker volume:

docker volume create mytrendz-data
docker volume create mytrendz-logs

Execute the following command to run this docker directly:

docker run -it -p 8888:8888 -v mytrendz-data:/data -v mytrendz-logs:/var/log/trendz -e TB_API_URL='PUT_YOUR_THINGSBOARD_URL_HERE' -e TB_API_PE_ENABLED='true' -e TB_LICENSE_SECRET=PUT_YOUR_LICENSE_SECRET_HERE --restart always --name mytrendz thingsboard/trendz:1.4.1-SNAPSHOT

Where:

• PUT_YOUR_LICENSE_SECRET_HERE - placeholder for your license secret obtained on the first step
• PUT_YOUR_THINGSBOARD_URL_HERE - url for connecting to ThingsBoard Rest API (for example http://10.5.0.11:8080)
• TB_API_PE_ENABLED - set true if connecting to the ThingsBoard Professional Edition and false if connecting to the ThingsBoard Community Edition
• docker run - run this container
• -it - attach a terminal session with current Trendz process output
• -p 8888:8888 - connect local port 8888 to exposed internal HTTP port 8888
• -v mytrendz-data:/data - mounts the volume mytbpe-data to Trendz DataBase data directory
• -v mytrendz-logs:/var/log/thingsboard - mounts the volume mytbpe-logs to Trendz logs directory
• --name mytrendz - friendly local name of this machine
• --restart always - automatically start Trendz in case of system reboot and restart in case of failure.
• thingsboard/trendz:1.4.1-SNAPSHOT - docker image

In order to get access to necessary resources from external IP/Host on Windows machine, please execute the following commands:

VBoxManage controlvm "default" natpf1 "tcp-port8888,tcp,,8888,,8888"

After executing this command you can open http://{your-host-ip}:8888 in you browser (for ex. http://localhost:8888). You should see Trendz login page.

Authentication

For first authentication you need to use Tenant Administrator credentials from your ThingsBoard

Trendz uses ThingsBoard as an authentication service. During first sign in ThingsBoard service should be also available to validate credentials.

Detaching, stop and start commands

You can detach from session terminal with Ctrl-p Ctrl-q - the container will keep running in the background.

To reattach to the terminal (to see Trendz logs) run:

$ docker attach mytrendz

To stop the container:

$ docker stop mytrendz

To start the container:

$ docker start mytrendz

Troubleshooting

DNS issues

Note If you observe errors related to DNS issues, for example

127.0.1.1:53: cannot unmarshal DNS message

You may configure your system to use Google public DNS servers