Colin's question was related directly to NTP with RHEL 9. Mine is more general, but I think related enough to go here.
Our Xymon servers are running on CentOS 7. I need to look at my options to get those replaced (or turned into) Linux 8 or 9. Alma Linux is where I've taken other hosts in this situation; mostly to 9, but one to 8 due to package availability.
When we moved our Xymon service from Solaris to Linux, it was (obviously) a completely new deployment. Our current Xymon servers have lots of things besides Xymon running on them. There are external hosts pushing files in via scp through service accounts, and local cron jobs consuming those files to generate test results (and special Xymon web pages). There are customization to the apache web server handling authentication and delivering non-Xymon (but related) content. And other stuff I'm sure I've forgotten about. It's going to be whole lot of work to re-build all of this on a new host, and move traffic to it.
I've used 'elevate <https://almalinux.org/elevate/>' (from Red Hat's 'Leapp') with several other systems to lift them from CentOS 7 to CentOS Stream 8, or Alma 8 & 9. It wasn't as simple as falling off a log, and it wasn't successful in all cases, but in several cases it did what it was supposed to do and saved us a huge amount of work.
Has anyone tried "elevating" their older Linux Xymon server to Linux 9 ?
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On 10/9/2023 4:00 PM, Colin Coe wrote:
Hi all
I'm getting ready to replace our venerable RHEL6 Xymon server with one running RHEL 9.
We use the terabithia.org <http://terabithia.org/> RPMs.
NTP tests are all returning red.? I've updated xymonserver.cfg (and restarted the xymon service) by changing NTPDATE="/usr/bin/chronyc" and adding NTPDATEOPTS="tracking".
When I run "/usr/bin/chronyc tracking <IP HERE>" from the shell, it works fine however the Xymon page is red.
Service ntp on <CENSORED> is not OK : Service unavailable
Command: /usr/bin/chronyc tracking <CENSORED> 2>&1
Any ideas?
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