On Sun, May 3, 2015 4:38 pm, Marcin Dulak wrote:
Hi,
the example is available at https://github.com/marcindulak/vagrant-xymon-tutorial I hope Xymon's beginners will find it useful.
Hi Marcin,
Thanks for your report! Definitely the more documentation the better :)
In the process of creating it I noticed some problems with the documentation https://www.xymon.com/help/install.html:
- RHEL6/7 documentation is missing dependencies: yp-tools c-ares-devel
- Debian documentation is missing dependencies: libc-ares-dev dpkg-dev
For c-ares-devel, the default tarball includes a bundled copy of c-ares, however since it's generally preferable to use shared libraries when possible I agree it should be called out for package installation. It's unfortunate that RH placed it into the 'optional' channel, as that makes it a bit more difficult to add into a managed environment for building.
I'm curious where the dependency for yp-tools came in, however. On EL6 and EL7, that should not be a req.
- I believe fping is no longer necessary as a dependency when building RPMS or debs
It's not a dependency in the current build, but it is very strongly recommended. fping3 has been available for a while now and is quite stable. xymonping should be considered deprecated in favor it.
- The /etc/init.d for xymon-client seems still missing on Debian/Ubuntu as reported here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.hobbit/30534
Best regards,
Marcin
Thanks,
Yes, especially for systemd systems, there's a definite gap there. I've actually gotten it working, but with some significant runtime modifications to the present tarball (some of this was also necessary for SELinux compliance).
I'd been working to split these patches apart to allow for an orderly, feature-at-a-time commit process into SVN but it's been proving more difficult than expected to separate the modifications while still ensuring that intermediate stages actually build. It might be easier to simply do a mass patch to bring everything in and then enter a stabilization period for beta testing of a 4.4 branch.
If I go with that approach, systemd and a more normalized initscript approach should be working sooner rather than later.
Regards,
-jc