On Friday 17 July 2009 11:31:14 Neil Franken wrote:

Hi Guys and Gals.

I am busy moving my POC Xymon server to a full time dedicated server. I have been using my Ubuntu Distro for development and testing and would like to install the server CentOS. I have a look at the installation instructions on the Wiki about CentOS spcifics but it seems bit outdated. For example it still creates a Hobbit user and so on. Can anyone here give me some pointers so I can avoid a lot of frustration.

Install the packages from a repo:

http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/xymon/

yum install xymon

service xymon start

Some files are in slightly different places than if you install manually, in order to comply with packaging standards, so configs in /etc/xymon, data in /var/lib/xymon, xymon home directory is /usr/lib*/xymon, with symlinks to keep it consistent.

Regards, Buchan