Troubleshooting

Logging

The Backup Ninja agent log file is located under at /var/log/cm-agent.log:

$ tail -f /var/log/cm-agent.log
2021-01-14T03:35:25.036Z	info	Starting cm-agent v1.0.0-140...
2021-01-14T03:35:25.060Z	error	Agent API is not initialized
2021-01-14T03:35:25.068Z	info	Starting cm-agent v1.0.0-140...
2021-01-14T03:35:26.675Z	info	Registering agent on agent-auth-api.s9s.io:443
2021-01-14T03:35:29.827Z	info	Starting cm-agent v1.0.0-140...
2021-01-14T03:35:31.359Z	info	Authenticating agent to agent-auth-api.s9s.io:443
2021-01-14T03:36:59.394Z	info	Restarting the agent
2021-01-14T03:36:59.693Z	error	signal: terminated
2021-01-14T03:36:59.731Z	info	Starting cm-agent v1.0.0-140...
2021-01-14T03:37:01.269Z	info	Authenticating agent to agent-auth-api.s9s.io:443

Health check

You have multiple ways to confirm that the agent is running, as shown in the following sections.

Process

Verify by running the OS process check:

$ ps aux | grep cm-agent
root       98454  0.0  1.0 722428 20932 ?        SLsl 03:36   0:00 /usr/sbin/cm-agent

Service

Verify by using service manager:

$ systemctl status cm-agent
● cm-agent.service - Configuration management agent
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/cm-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2021-01-14 03:36:59 UTC; 5min ago
   Main PID: 98454 (cm-agent)
      Tasks: 7 (limit: 2372)
     Memory: 8.1M
     CGroup: /system.slice/cm-agent.service
             └─98454 /usr/sbin/cm-agent

Jan 14 03:36:59 ip-10-0-0-195 systemd[1]: Started Configuration management agent.
Jan 14 03:37:01 ip-10-0-0-195 cm-agent[98454]: - /etc/mysql/my.cnf (file)
Jan 14 03:37:01 ip-10-0-0-195 cm-agent[98454]: -   /etc/mysql/conf.d (dir)
Jan 14 03:37:01 ip-10-0-0-195 cm-agent[98454]: -       /etc/mysql/conf.d/mysql.cnf (file)
Jan 14 03:37:01 ip-10-0-0-195 cm-agent[98454]: -       /etc/mysql/conf.d/mysqldump.cnf (file)
Jan 14 03:37:01 ip-10-0-0-195 cm-agent[98454]: -   /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d (dir)
Jan 14 03:37:01 ip-10-0-0-195 cm-agent[98454]: -       /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysql.cnf (file)
Jan 14 03:37:01 ip-10-0-0-195 cm-agent[98454]: -       /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf (file)

Further Assistance

If you have any issues that required assistance, kindly contact the Severealnines support team by filling up the support request form.