I would say RHEL variants (like Centos) are the easiest since there are the Terabithia RPMs that are provided by a maintainer. I believe Debian provides Xymon as part of it's official distro list. Basically, any distro that provides per-built packages would be the easiest. If you need to compile it because you want the latest greatest or want to customize what , as long as you have the necessary dependencies it's usually pretty straightforward. Over the years, I've compiled it on various linux distros, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, BSD (I include Slackware in with BSD) with very few issues. Basically, it's whatever you feel the most comfortable with.

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On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:31 PM, John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov> wrote:

I run a couple of instances of Xymon on Solaris. I ran another instance on CentOS 6. For various reasons, I need to create another instance on linux. I lean towards CentOS 7 but could almost as easily choose something else. I thought I should ask:

Is there a linux distribution on which I should expect the installation of Xymon to be particularly difficult or simple?

-- Do things because you should, not just because you can.

John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Department of Administration State of Alaska

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