Installing Data Provider on a Windows Cloud Server

Updated on 2022-12-08 GMT+08:00

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This section describes how to install Data Provider on a cloud server running Windows.

Prerequisites

Before installing Data Provider, you have configured time synchronization on the cloud servers to ensure that the system time on the cloud servers is correct.

Procedure

Download the software installation packages using the browser and download huawei_dataprovider_windows_x86.exe to a directory.

Access the URL for your region. The following command uses the URL for CN-Hong Kong as an example:

https://obs-sap-ap-southeast-1.obs.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com/dataprovider/huawei_dataprovider_windows_x86.exe

**Table 1** Obtaining the required software package
Name	Description	How to Obtain
huawei_dataprovider_windows_x86.exe	Software installation package	CN-Hong Kong: https://obs-sap-ap-southeast-1.obs.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com/dataprovider/huawei_dataprovider_windows_x86.exe
		AP-Bangkok: https://obs-sap-ap-southeast-2.obs.ap-southeast-2.myhuaweicloud.com/dataprovider/huawei_dataprovider_windows_x86.exe
		AP-Singapore: https://obs-sap-ap-southeast-3.obs.ap-southeast-3.myhuaweicloud.com/dataprovider/huawei_dataprovider_windows_x86.exe
		SA-Johannesburg: https://obs-sap-af-south-1.obs.af-south-1.myhuaweicloud.com/dataprovider/huawei_dataprovider_windows_x86.exe

Double-click huawei_dataprovider_windows_x86.exe in the directory where the package is stored.
On the installation configuration page, click Next. The following page is displayed.

NOTE:

By default, the required Python and its plug-ins are installed when Data Provider is installed. The plug-ins are Pywin32 and psutil.
Click Install.

After the installation is complete, a dialog box is displayed, as shown in the following figure.
Click Finish.
Verify the installation.
- After the installation is complete, the software is installed in the specified directory. The default path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Huawei\dataprovider.
- Log in at http://localhost:8888/ through a web browser and check whether the service is running properly. When the service is running, the metric page provided by the Data Provider is displayed.
- On the Windows Task Manager, the HWDataProvider service is running.

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