Is the compose example and documented env variables wrong?

[danielo515]

I tried the following command:

docker run -d -p 8000:8000 --name librenms \
  -v $(pwd)/data:/data \
  -e "DB_HOST=192.168.0.107" \
  -e "MYSQL_USER=user" \
  -e "MYSQL_PASSWORD=password" \
  librenms/librenms:latest

And I get this error: ERROR: Either DB_PASSWORD or DB_PASSWORD_FILE must be defined

Then I just changed to this:

docker run -d -p 8000:8000 --name librenms \
  -v $(pwd)/data:/data \
  -e "DB_HOST=192.168.0.107" \
  -e "MYSQL_USER=user" \
  -e "DB_PASSWORD=pass" \
  librenms/librenms:latest

And then at lest it tired to connect to the database. It is maybe the documentation wrong?

[danielo515]

I can confirm that using DB_PASSWORD and DB_USER everything works

[crazy-max]

@danielo515 MYSQL_USER / MYSQL_PASSWORD is for the MariaDB container not LibreNMS: https://github.com/librenms/docker/blob/master/doc/docker/environment-variables.md#database

[danielo515]

Then where are documented the DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD env variables?

[crazy-max]

@danielo515 See the link in my previous comment.

[danielo515]

@danielo515 See the link in my previous comment.

I saw your link, and I may be blind, but I didn't saw a single reference about how to provide the database credentials to librenms