Xymon CentOS 5 installation
list Neil Franken
Hi Guys and Gals. I am busy moving my POC Xymon server to a full time dedicated server. I have been using my Ubuntu Distro for development and testing and would like to install the server CentOS. I have a look at the installation instructions on the Wiki about CentOS spcifics but it seems bit outdated. For example it still creates a Hobbit user and so on. Can anyone here give me some pointers so I can avoid a lot of frustration. Regards Neil
list Josh Luthman
Don't issue the command for the other user and don't try to su to it laster.
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On 7/17/09, Neil Franken <user-1689acfc5a3b@xymon.invalid> wrote:Hi Guys and Gals. I am busy moving my POC Xymon server to a full time dedicated server. I have been using my Ubuntu Distro for development and testing and would like to install the server CentOS. I have a look at the installation instructions on the Wiki about CentOS spcifics but it seems bit outdated. For example it still creates a Hobbit user and so on. Can anyone here give me some pointers so I can avoid a lot of frustration. Regards Neil
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list Buchan Milne
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On Friday 17 July 2009 11:31:14 Neil Franken wrote:
Hi Guys and Gals. I am busy moving my POC Xymon server to a full time dedicated server. I have been using my Ubuntu Distro for development and testing and would like to install the server CentOS. I have a look at the installation instructions on the Wiki about CentOS spcifics but it seems bit outdated. For example it still creates a Hobbit user and so on. Can anyone here give me some pointers so I can avoid a lot of frustration.
Install the packages from a repo: http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/xymon/ # yum install xymon # service xymon start Some files are in slightly different places than if you install manually, in order to comply with packaging standards, so configs in /etc/xymon, data in /var/lib/xymon, xymon home directory is /usr/lib*/xymon, with symlinks to keep it consistent. Regards, Buchan
list Neil Franken
Hi Buchan I am very new to Centos as I come from a Ubuntu/Opensuse background. Do I add these repositories to Yum? I tried downloading them with firefox and opening them with the software installer but it complains about missing dependencies. Any ideas? Regards Neil
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-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 18 July 2009 05:22 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc: Neil Franken
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Xymon CentOS 5 installation
On Friday 17 July 2009 11:31:14 Neil Franken wrote:Hi Guys and Gals. I am busy moving my POC Xymon server to a full time dedicated server.
I
have been using my Ubuntu Distro for development and testing and would like to install the server CentOS. I have a look at the installation instructions on the Wiki about CentOS spcifics but it seems bit outdated. For example it still creates a Hobbit user and so on. Can anyone here give me some pointers so I can avoid a lot of frustration.
Install the packages from a repo: http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/xymon/ # yum install xymon # service xymon start Some files are in slightly different places than if you install manually, in order to comply with packaging standards, so configs in /etc/xymon, data in /var/lib/xymon, xymon home directory is /usr/lib*/xymon, with symlinks to keep it consistent. Regards, Buchan
list Neil Franken
Sorry forgot to add. It is the rrdtool. Busy resolving it.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 18 July 2009 05:22 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc: Neil Franken
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Xymon CentOS 5 installation
On Friday 17 July 2009 11:31:14 Neil Franken wrote:Hi Guys and Gals. I am busy moving my POC Xymon server to a full time dedicated server.
I
have been using my Ubuntu Distro for development and testing and would like to install the server CentOS. I have a look at the installation instructions on the Wiki about CentOS spcifics but it seems bit outdated. For example it still creates a Hobbit user and so on. Can anyone here give me some pointers so I can avoid a lot of frustration.
Install the packages from a repo: http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/xymon/ # yum install xymon # service xymon start Some files are in slightly different places than if you install manually, in order to comply with packaging standards, so configs in /etc/xymon, data in /var/lib/xymon, xymon home directory is /usr/lib*/xymon, with symlinks to keep it consistent. Regards, Buchan
list Pkc_mls
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Neil Franken a écrit :
Hi Buchan I am very new to Centos as I come from a Ubuntu/Opensuse background. Do I add these repositories to Yum? I tried downloading them with firefox and opening them with the software installer but it complains about missing dependencies. Any ideas?
you should have a look at this : http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel5-fedora-core-add-new-yum-repository.html
Regards Neil
list Neil Franken
Hi Guys Ok got the RHEL packages installed. I got the RRDTool downloaded from the http://daig.wieers.com/rpm/packages. I look at the service configuration and can see xymon listed there(KDE app) and it Xymon is reported as started. However top | grep xymon does not return anything. Also the website gives me a directory listing which means Xymon aint running. My question is.. does the RPM packages configure the Xymon server as well as install the server? I am not familiar with RPM at all so some input will be appreciated. Regards Neil
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-----Original Message-----
From: pkc_mls [mailto:user-06f34394900f@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 21 July 2009 01:43 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Xymon CentOS 5 installation
Neil Franken a écrit :Hi Buchan I am very new to Centos as I come from a Ubuntu/Opensuse background. Do I add these repositories to Yum? I tried downloading them with firefox and opening them with the software installer but it complains about missing dependencies. Any ideas?
you should have a look at this : http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel5-fedora-core-add-new-yum-repository.html
Regards Neil
list Buchan Milne
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On Tuesday 21 July 2009 11:21:49 Neil Franken wrote:
Hi Buchan I am very new to Centos as I come from a Ubuntu/Opensuse background. Do I add these repositories to Yum?
Yes.
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I tried downloading them with firefox and opening them with the software installer but it complains about missing dependencies.
Yes. There are a number of packages required for installing the server-side. This would be the entire process: # cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/xymon.repo <<EOF [hobbit] name=Hobbit-$releasever baseurl=http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel$releasever/hobbit/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/bgmilne.asc enabled=1 [xymon] name=Xymon-$releasever baseurl=http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel$releasever/xymon/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/bgmilne.asc enabled=1 EOF # yum install xymon devmon # service xymon start If mrtg is selected by yum, cancel, and run instead: # yum install perl-SNMP_Session xymon devmon (the mrtg package shouldn't provide perl(SNMP_Session), as it is in the wrong location for scripts to 'use SNMP_Session' without overriding PERL5LIB or similar) You would notice that *all* the packages required in top of a basic Centos5/RHEL5 install are provided in the repo, including rrdtool ... Regards, Buchan