Hi Buchan

I am very new to Centos as I come from a Ubuntu/Opensuse background. Do I add these repositories to Yum? I tried downloading them with firefox and opening them with the software installer but it complains about missing dependencies.

Any ideas?

Regards Neil

-----Original Message----- From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net] Sent: 18 July 2009 05:22 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Neil Franken Subject: Re: [hobbit] Xymon CentOS 5 installation

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 I have a look at the installation instructions on the Wiki about CentOS spcifics but it seems bit outdated.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

Hi Guys

Ok got the RHEL packages installed. I got the RRDTool downloaded from the http://daig.wieers.com/rpm/packages. I look at the service configuration and can see xymon listed there(KDE app) and it Xymon is reported as started. However top | grep xymon does not return anything.

Also the website gives me a directory listing which means Xymon aint running. My question is.. does the RPM packages configure the Xymon server as well as install the server?

I am not familiar with RPM at all so some input will be appreciated.

Regards Neil

-----Original Message----- From: pkc_mls [mailto:pkc_mls at yahoo.fr] Sent: 21 July 2009 01:43 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Xymon CentOS 5 installation

Neil Franken a écrit :

Hi Buchan

I am very new to Centos as I come from a Ubuntu/Opensuse background. Do I add these repositories to Yum? I tried downloading them with firefox and opening them with the software installer but it complains about missing dependencies.

Any ideas?

you should have a look at this : http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel5-fedora-core-add-new-yum-repository.html

Regards Neil

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Sorry forgot to add. It is the rrdtool. Busy resolving it.

-----Original Message----- From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net] Sent: 18 July 2009 05:22 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Neil Franken Subject: Re: [hobbit] Xymon CentOS 5 installation

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