I've been having a problem when different subpages and subparents share an identifier (under different parents, of course). It seems the pages all render correctly, but the search capability doesn't work correctly. The search will always go to the first page in hosts.cfg that has the duplicate name. Oddly enough, this doesn't seem to occur when the duplicate name is the last in the chain. There is, of course, an easy work around for this, but it is rather difficult not to reuse page names in a large installation (production, development, test, etc.).
Thanks, Larry Barber
I want to install Xymon on our production server, but our SAs have a new policy which they do not allow temporary root access to do all the installs. Is there a way to install Xymon without needing root access?
On 10-02-2012 23:27, LOZOVSKY, DANIEL L wrote:
I want to install Xymon on our production server, but our SAs have a new policy which they do not allow temporary root access to do all the installs. Is there a way to install Xymon without needing root access?
There are very few parts of the Xymon installation that require special privileges:
- xymonping must run as root, and therefore a chown/chmod is done during installation to make it suid root
- The www/rep and www/snapshot directories are chgrp'ed to the groupid used by the webserver, and made group-writable
You can run configure, build and install Xymon without any special privileges - just use the "-k" option when running "make install", i.e. "make -k install". This will cause the installation to ignore that it cannot do these two things.
Of course, to actually use Xymon some admin configuration is needed - you need to configure the webserver to handle the Xymon webpages, and either xymonping or fping (if you choose to use that) will have to be installed as suid-root or made usable for the xymon user via e.g. sudo. So you do need some admin cooperation. But for the core installation it will not be necessary.
Regards, Henrik
On Saturday, 11 February 2012 00:27:41 LOZOVSKY, DANIEL L wrote:
I want to install Xymon on our production server, but our SAs have a new policy which they do not allow temporary root access to do all the installs. Is there a way to install Xymon without needing root access?
Sure, build a package of some kind on a different host, and provide the package to your SAs.
Regards, Buchan
If you haven't got root access to the systems then you will be in for a very difficult time, not only for the Xymon server but also when it comes to deploying the Xymon client to be able to report on those systems (unless all you are doing is basic ping/service polling remotely).
My advice would be to work with the SAs to get them to assist you with the installation, they are more likely to co-operate if they have some idea of what you are doing on their systems.
Steve
On 13 February 2012 11:05, Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net> wrote:
On Saturday, 11 February 2012 00:27:41 LOZOVSKY, DANIEL L wrote:
I want to install Xymon on our production server, but our SAs have a new policy which they do not allow temporary root access to do all the installs. Is there a way to install Xymon without needing root access?
Sure, build a package of some kind on a different host, and provide the package to your SAs.
Regards, Buchan
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