Thank you for the prompt reply. I'll go ahead and try the subscription-manager method to see if it will work. I have tried the CentOS 7 packages for C-Ares and although that the RPMs install fine, Xymon configure still throws a fit about not finding ares.h - Don't even get me started on rrdtool-devel. It's been such a pain for the past couple of days and I am still not ready to give up. Regarding the Xymon bundled c-ares, that's what configure says that it either cant find local c-ares or there is something wrong with it and it will use the bundled c-ares. I just don't like errors when configuring so was trying to resolve it. Also can you expand a little bit further on the Xymon RPMs you suggested? Meaning it will just install a default version without any issues? Where would I go look for things, meaning installdir's etc? Thank you. Sam.
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 04:37:08 -0700 Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon Newbie - Installation Issues From: cleaver at terabithia.org To: sam.robert at outlook.com CC: xymon at xymon.com
On Thu, August 21, 2014 12:29 am, Sam Robert wrote:
Hello All, I am a Linux and Xymon newbie to begin with so please go easy on me. Found Xymon in my search for a simple yet powerful network monitor and love what I have seen so far. However I cant seem to get it installed properly no matter what. So far I have tried all instances of Linux over at AWS and so far the best with the least amount of errors is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 - Even on that, the RRDTOOL-DEVEL is nowhere to be found and after spending half a day found the rpm at REPOFORGE and installed from there and the ./configure seemed happy with it. However no matter what I do, I could not find C-ARES-DEVEL to install and the RPM I found gave constant errors.
Hi there! Welcome to the club :)
On RHEL7, c-ares-devel, rrdtool-devel and selinux-policy-doc are all in the rhel-7-server-optional-rpms channel; you may need to add that using subscription-manager to install. If you're unable to add that channel into the Red Hat entitlement, you should also be able to use the CentOS 7 versions in a pinch: http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/
Anyhow, my question is what to do with the C-ARES error or the ARES.H errors on configure. Let them be or how can I install them properly? Also after the installation how do I configure APACHE as on other distros I could never get the XYMON page to come up because of a different www folder and each distro has its own issues.
Hmm. If you're installing from the base release tarball, it should be using c-ares 1.7.3 (which is locally included). What errors are you seeing when compiling?
Does anybody know of a complete guide or tutorial for newbies using which I can get Xymon to work? I have followed almost 8 to 10 different Xymon articles for different distros and could not get any to work because of the versions difference and other issues.
Indeed, there are a number of different ways of configuring xymon "out of the box", which is great for using it as a monitoring toolkit, but can make it confusing at times when just starting out.
If you'd like a more "FHS"-y layout which might help in just getting an install going, there are RHEL7 RPMs at http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/testing/el7/x86_64/ that may be useful.
HTH,
-jc