journalctl support for RHEL/Alma Linux 9
list Benjamin Smith
Hi everyone, I've been introducing a few AlmaLinux 9 hosts into my monitored network. I'm happy to share my build notes, so far, but specifically am wondering about "msgs" monitoring - it does not seem that journalctl is supported? Ben EL9 install notes below COMPILING: EL9 (CLIENT ONLY) 1) yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools" yum install pcre-devel useradd xymon 2) cd /usr/src 3) ./configure --client DON'T FORGET TO PUT IN THE RIGHT SERVER IP!! 4) ./make 5) tar -zcf xymon.client.not.installed.el9.tgz 6) scp xymon.client.not.installed.el9.tgz root at monitor:/var/www/html/. INSTALLING CREATED CLIENT 1) Verify the hostname matches xymon server config hostname # set as necessary: hostnamectl set-hostname $HOSTNAME 2) Run the following cd /usr/src # NOTE THE VERSION!! wget http://monitor.effortlessis.com/xymon.client.not.installed.elVERSION.tgz tar -zxvf xymon.client.not.installed.tgz useradd xymon yum install libtirpc libtirpc-devel yum groupinstall "Development Tools" (if needed) cd xymon-4.3.30 make install 3) Verify it works su - xymon xymon --debug # make sure it runs ok - WHAT DOES THIS DO? 4) yum groupremove "Development Tools" (if installed just for this) ./runclient.sh start # wait a few minutes # see it on the server: http://monitor.effortlessis.com/xymon/ run xymon directly to see it works. As user xymon on client Useful https://xymon.sourceforge.io/xymon/help/manpages/man1/xymon.1.html 4) Make it work via init. cp -av /root/repo/xymon/xymond /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymond4) ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymond /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99xymond; cd /etc/rc.d/init.d; chcon --reference=functions xymond systemctl enable xymond; systemctl start xymond; 4a) Make it work via systemctl ## not done yet 5) Common issues: A) /var/log/messages chown root.xymon /var/log/messages; chmod g+r /var/log/messages B) on xymon server, edit procs C) SELinux error on start xymond via systemctl ( ??? WTF IS THIS? )
list Colin Coe
https://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/testing/el9/ Have you tried these?
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On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 at 06:14, Lists <user-bd60c1f964ce@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi everyone, I've been introducing a few AlmaLinux 9 hosts into my monitored network. I'm happy to share my build notes, so far, but specifically am wondering about "msgs" monitoring - it does not seem that journalctl is supported? Ben EL9 install notes below COMPILING: EL9 (CLIENT ONLY) 1) yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools" yum install pcre-devel useradd xymon 2) cd /usr/src 3) ./configure --client DON'T FORGET TO PUT IN THE RIGHT SERVER IP!! 4) ./make 5) tar -zcf xymon.client.not.installed.el9.tgz 6) scp xymon.client.not.installed.el9.tgz root at monitor:/var/www/html/. INSTALLING CREATED CLIENT 1) Verify the hostname matches xymon server config hostname # set as necessary: hostnamectl set-hostname $HOSTNAME 2) Run the following cd /usr/src # NOTE THE VERSION!! wget http://monitor.effortlessis.com/xymon.client.not.installed.elVERSION.tgz tar -zxvf xymon.client.not.installed.tgz useradd xymon yum install libtirpc libtirpc-devel yum groupinstall "Development Tools" (if needed) cd xymon-4.3.30 make install 3) Verify it works su - xymon xymon --debug # make sure it runs ok - WHAT DOES THIS DO? 4) yum groupremove "Development Tools" (if installed just for this) ./runclient.sh start # wait a few minutes # see it on the server: http://monitor.effortlessis.com/xymon/ run xymon directly to see it works. As user xymon on client Useful https://xymon.sourceforge.io/xymon/help/manpages/man1/xymon.1.html 4) Make it work via init. cp -av /root/repo/xymon/xymond /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymond4) ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymond /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99xymond; cd /etc/rc.d/init.d; chcon --reference=functions xymond systemctl enable xymond; systemctl start xymond; 4a) Make it work via systemctl ## not done yet 5) Common issues: A) /var/log/messages chown root.xymon /var/log/messages; chmod g+r /var/log/messages B) on xymon server, edit procs C) SELinux error on start xymond via systemctl ( ??? WTF IS THIS? )