Sam, attached is detailed instructions that I wrote not long ago. I have a Xymon server on AWS using Ubuntu that runs well. It took a bit to get it working smooth, but once I ironed out my issues it's been running for about a year now. I did have an AWS crash last year and had to rebuild it once, so I'd suggest keeping detailed instructions, notes, and backups (obviously) for future reference just in case you need to rebuild for whatever reason. I see from the posts that you're leaning towards Redhat, so I hope I don't completely sidetrack you here with Ubuntu. I hope this helps you out. :-) Signature - Kris
Thank you.
Kris Springer
On 8/21/2014 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.
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.
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.
Please Help!
Sam.
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