MerakiBeats

Installing GO

Download and Install Go Language

Update your system using the following command.

### Debian 9 / Ubuntu 16.04 / 14.04 ###

# apt-get update

### CentOS / RHEL / Fedora ###

# yum -y update

• Install wget package

### Debian 9 / Ubuntu 16.04 / 14.04 ###

# apt-get install wget

### CentOS / RHEL / Fedora ###

# yum -y install wget

• Download the Go language binary package 

# wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.9.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

• Extract the archive and move it to /usr/local

# tar -zxvf  go1.9.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/

• Setup Go Environment variables
• temporary

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

• permanent

place the above command in /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile file for persistent across sessions

• install gcc (this is generally required)

yum install gcc

• Verify Go Installation

# go version

go version go1.9.2 linux/amd64

# go env

GOARCH="amd64"

GOBIN=""

GOEXE=""

GOHOSTARCH="amd64"

GOHOSTOS="linux"

GOOS="linux"

GOPATH="/root/work"

GORACE=""

GOROOT="/usr/local/go"

GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"

GCCGO="gccgo"

CC="gcc"

GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0"

CXX="g++"

CGO_ENABLED="1"

CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_CPPFLAGS=""

CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"

PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"

Build the binary for merakibeat

• Clone from (https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/merakibeat.git)

To clone merakibeat from the git repository, run the following commands

mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/CiscoDevNet/merakibeat

git clone https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/merakibeat.git ${GOPATH}/src/wwwin-github.cisco.com/DevNet/merakibeat

• Build

To build the binary for merakibeat run the command below. This will generate a binary in the same directory with the name merakibeat.

make

• Run

To run merakibeat with debugging output enabled, run

./merakibeat -c merakibeat.yml -e -d "*"