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New to Xymon - having an issue

list John Langbein
Mon, 23 May 2016 14:27:41 -0500
Message-Id: <user-572289088afd@xymon.invalid>

"Ferris Bueller you're my hero...."

Graphs appear! Now, let me give it 24 hours to collect data and see if we
got it.

Thanks again!

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
I wrote this guide a good long time ago, but should be very relative to
what you need.


https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_Guide/Compiling_on_CentOS


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On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:14 PM, John Langbein <user-029cb4cdcfef@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
Greetings.

I was a Big Brother user many moons ago and contributed many modules
including for a database, a "multi module" and hot plug-in modules. In
recent years I have moved away from the monitoring role, but recently have
been thrust back into it. I am looking at many packages, and I am leaning
towards Xymon as I like the "at a glance" dashboard for many of the people
who may look at it. I am using CentOS 7.1 for my OS, and fairly quickly got
it working at a basic level.

The issue I am having is with data. I was going to deploy OpenNMS, but I
noticed Xymon has graphing capabilities. One tool would be awesome.
However, I am running into issues. I have tried installing all prerequisite
RPM's, and even tried installing the packages via configure/make, but I
just can't get xymon to find the graphing include files or libraries. I
have done quite a few searches and nothing is really working for my case. I
even used the --rddinclude DIR and -rrdlib DIR flags as it suggested with
appropriate substitutions and pointing straight at it hasn't worked.

I would really appreciate some help here. Perhaps I installed the wrong
base configuration (webserver, no GUI). I am pointing to YUM and can
download any packages needed. If I can download via YUM that would be
preferred, but if compiling myself works better I have no fear or issue
doing that.

Once I get past this I am sure they will be happy with the tool and I can
move forward installing agents, but my question concerning that can wait
for another day.

Thanks.

John Langbein