2.4.4 Testing the Installation

You can ensure the installation succeeded by running the following command. You should see a similar output on your system. An example of setting the Router for simple routing is available at Section 3.2, “Trying out MySQL Router in a Sandbox”

Note

Our example assumes that mysqlrouter is in the system's PATH. In this case, PATH includes /usr/local/bin.

shell> mysqlrouter --help

MySQL Router v8.0.14 on Linux (64-bit) (GPL community edition)
Copyright (c) 2015, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Start MySQL Router.

Configuration read from the following files in the given order (enclosed
in parentheses means not available for reading):
  (/etc/mysqlrouter/mysqlrouter.conf)
  /home/philip/.mysqlrouter.conf

...

Note

Use the mysqlrouter --version command to check the version.