[Xymon] New to Xymon - having an issue

John Langbein bigbandjohn at gmail.com
Mon May 23 21:27:41 CEST 2016


"Ferris Bueller you're my hero...."

Graphs appear! Now, let me give it 24 hours to collect data and see if we
got it.

Thanks again!

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
wrote:

> I wrote this guide a good long time ago, but should be very relative to
> what you need.
>
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> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_Guide/Compiling_on_CentOS
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> Josh Luthman
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> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:14 PM, John Langbein <bigbandjohn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I was a Big Brother user many moons ago and contributed many modules
>> including for a database, a "multi module" and hot plug-in modules. In
>> recent years I have moved away from the monitoring role, but recently have
>> been thrust back into it. I am looking at many packages, and I am leaning
>> towards Xymon as I like the "at a glance" dashboard for many of the people
>> who may look at it. I am using CentOS 7.1 for my OS, and fairly quickly got
>> it working at a basic level.
>>
>> The issue I am having is with data. I was going to deploy OpenNMS, but I
>> noticed Xymon has graphing capabilities. One tool would be awesome.
>> However, I am running into issues. I have tried installing all prerequisite
>> RPM's, and even tried installing the packages via configure/make, but I
>> just can't get xymon to find the graphing include files or libraries. I
>> have done quite a few searches and nothing is really working for my case. I
>> even used the --rddinclude DIR and -rrdlib DIR flags as it suggested with
>> appropriate substitutions and pointing straight at it hasn't worked.
>>
>> I would really appreciate some help here. Perhaps I installed the wrong
>> base configuration (webserver, no GUI). I am pointing to YUM and can
>> download any packages needed. If I can download via YUM that would be
>> preferred, but if compiling myself works better I have no fear or issue
>> doing that.
>>
>> Once I get past this I am sure they will be happy with the tool and I can
>> move forward installing agents, but my question concerning that can wait
>> for another day.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> John Langbein
>>
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