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.

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