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Best installation process on Fedora 12

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list Peter · Fri, 07 May 2010 10:22:05 -0700 ·
Hello; I am new to Hobbit, its looks like a wonderful tool. Can someone kindly suggest the best method for installing on a Fedora 12 system? The site suggests an rpm, but I want to check with you all before I do anything.

Thanks and regards;

-peter-
list Josh Luthman · Fri, 7 May 2010 13:28:40 -0400 ·
Note the project is now called "Xymon" due to legal reasons.

There is no best installation.  If you have an RPM of xymon, use it
and if it works you're all set!

If not you will need to compile it.  You can probably use the CentOS
guide I wrote.

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quoted from Peter


On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM,  <user-015c13d8d9c3@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hello; I am new to Hobbit, its looks like a wonderful tool.  Can someone
kindly suggest the best method for installing on a Fedora 12 system?  The
site suggests an rpm, but I want to check with you all before I do anything.
Thanks and regards;
-peter-
list Stewart L · Sat, 8 May 2010 09:23:42 -0400 ·
The source code has scripts that create rpm packages for your build.
I've always used those.
quoted from Josh Luthman

On 5/7/10, user-015c13d8d9c3@xymon.invalid <user-015c13d8d9c3@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hello; I am new to Hobbit, its looks like a wonderful tool.  Can someone
kindly suggest the best method for installing on a Fedora 12 system?  The
site suggests an rpm, but I want to check with you all before I do anything.

Thanks and regards;

-peter-

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list Xymon User in Richmond · Sat, 8 May 2010 13:31:29 -0400 ·
quoted from Stewart L
On Sat, May 8, 2010 09:23, Stewart L wrote:
The source code has scripts that create rpm packages for your build.
I've always used those.
Vewy intewesting.  I'd never noticed makerpm.sh before.  Eventually I'll
have to make time to figure out how to use it, e.g. whether you need to
run the configure script first, how it handles xymon-apache.conf and
aliasing/soft-links for folders, etc.

I notice that the last thing it tries to do is to put the rpms in
../rpm/pkg.  It doesn't create the pkg folder nor is it there from
unpacking the tarball, so the command fails.  The rpms end up left in a
couple of folders under ./rpmbuild relative to the top level of the
tarball unpack.
list Buchan Milne · Mon, 10 May 2010 10:01:28 +0100 ·
quoted from Stewart L
On Friday, 7 May 2010 18:22:05 user-015c13d8d9c3@xymon.invalid wrote:
Hello; I am new to Hobbit, its looks like a wonderful tool.  Can someone
 kindly suggest the best method for installing on a Fedora 12 system?
Firstly, I would wonder about the wisdom of using Fedora 12 for deployment of a monitoring system. If a production environment, you would probably be better off using CentOS or RHEL. If this is a "play" system, then you could install from source ....
quoted from Stewart L
 The
 site suggests an rpm, but I want to check with you all before I do
 anything.
A number of distributions ship Xymon packages. For example, I maintain Xymon and devmon in Mandriva. The Mandriva packages rebuild adequately on CentOS/RHEL, and should probably work on Fedora as well (if you load the compatibility macros).

A repo for CentOS5 / RHEL 5 is available here:
http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/xymon/

SRPMS are here:
http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/SRPMS/xymon/

(or on any Mandriva mirror, and in Mandriva svn).

Regards,
Buchan
list Asif Iqbal · Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:53:23 -0400 ·
Buchan Mine,

Thanks a lot for the rpm and the repo. It worked perfect on my virtual
centos release 5.5

I am wondering if you have a mirror repo as well, just in case.

Also is this still the best way to add the repo and install xymon ?

 # wget http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/Xymon.repo -O
/etc/yum.repos.d/Xymon.repo
 # yum install xymon devmon

Thanks again for sharing the rpms


On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Buchan Milne
quoted from Buchan Milne
<user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Friday, 7 May 2010 18:22:05 user-015c13d8d9c3@xymon.invalid wrote:
Hello; I am new to Hobbit, its looks like a wonderful tool.  Can someone
 kindly suggest the best method for installing on a Fedora 12 system?
Firstly, I would wonder about the wisdom of using Fedora 12 for deployment of
a monitoring system. If a production environment, you would probably be better
off using CentOS or RHEL. If this is a "play" system, then you could install
from source ....
 The
 site suggests an rpm, but I want to check with you all before I do
 anything.
A number of distributions ship Xymon packages. For example, I maintain Xymon
and devmon in Mandriva. The Mandriva packages rebuild adequately on
CentOS/RHEL, and should probably work on Fedora as well (if you load the
compatibility macros).

A repo for CentOS5 / RHEL 5 is available here:
http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/xymon/

SRPMS are here:
http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/SRPMS/xymon/

(or on any Mandriva mirror, and in Mandriva svn).

Regards,
Buchan

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