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Switch from docker to narrative installations

Hello everybody,
We have a VMware environment in the company and mainly use Windows Server.
Since docker is not made for productive use, I have already installed Grafana and InfluxDB as a separate service on a Windows server. This has many advantages, because I can now update both very easily and it fits perfectly into our environment.
Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to implement the last part: The VRM query that transfers VRM data to InfluxDB.
How is this resolved? Is there a conf file in Docker that can help me? Can anyone help me further?

Conversely, I can help with the implementation of the first two parts: Grafana and InfluxDB. I am a Windows specialist and I am happy to help. (See: https://www.zoomsoft.de/grafana)

(Please excuse my bad English, I use a web translator.)

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There is a process that runs within the docker system to extract the data and publish it into the InfluxDB. If you read the guidance material it references an admin interface

"Go to the admin interface @ http://localhost:8088, default username and password are admin and admin."

This allows you to configure a few elements on how the extraction engine works. You would need to find out how to extract this process and run it outside of docker.

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Ulrich answered ·

That's exactly my question: can someone help me figure out how to do this in docker? Which process is responsible for this? Is that done with Mosquitto? Where can I find the conf file?

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Victron supplies all the information, it is just not obvious or clear and there is a reason for that.

It is a server that Victron wrote, and is based on node.js.

If you take a look at the README.md of the git repository, the details are at the bottom in section 5 (Internal Workings). There is even a link to the server source code.

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Ulrich answered ·

Once i asked for this - now i post my own solution here: https://community.victronenergy.com/content/kbentry/119253/how-to-run-grafanainflux-solution-natively-on-wind.html

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