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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Thank you for the prompt reply. I'll go ahead and try the subscription-manager method to see if it will work. I have tried the CentOS 7 packages for C-Ares and although that the RPMs install fine, Xymon configure still throws a fit about not finding ares.h - Don't even get me started on rrdtool-devel. It's been such a pain for the past couple of days and I am still not ready to give up.<div><br></div><div>Regarding the Xymon bundled c-ares, that's what configure says that it either cant find local c-ares or there is something wrong with it and it will use the bundled c-ares. I just don't like errors when configuring so was trying to resolve it. Also can you expand a little bit further on the Xymon RPMs you suggested? Meaning it will just install a default version without any issues? Where would I go look for things, meaning installdir's etc?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>Sam.</div><br><div>> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 04:37:08 -0700<br>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon Newbie - Installation Issues<br>> From: cleaver@terabithia.org<br>> To: sam.robert@outlook.com<br>> CC: xymon@xymon.com<br>> <br>> On Thu, August 21, 2014 12:29 am, Sam Robert wrote:<br>> > Hello All,<br>> > I am a Linux and Xymon newbie to begin with so please go easy on me. Found<br>> > Xymon in my search for a simple yet powerful network monitor and love what<br>> > I have seen so far. However I cant seem to get it installed properly no<br>> > matter what. So far I have tried all instances of Linux over at AWS and so<br>> > far the best with the least amount of errors is Red Hat Enterprise Linux<br>> > 7.0 - Even on that, the RRDTOOL-DEVEL is nowhere to be found and after<br>> > spending half a day found the rpm at REPOFORGE and installed from there<br>> > and the ./configure seemed happy with it. However no matter what I do, I<br>> > could not find C-ARES-DEVEL to install and the RPM I found gave constant<br>> > errors.<br>> <br>> <br>> Hi there! Welcome to the club :)<br>> <br>> On RHEL7, c-ares-devel, rrdtool-devel and selinux-policy-doc are all in<br>> the rhel-7-server-optional-rpms channel; you may need to add that using<br>> subscription-manager to install. If you're unable to add that channel into<br>> the Red Hat entitlement, you should also be able to use the CentOS 7<br>> versions in a pinch:<br>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/<br>> <br>> <br>> > Anyhow, my question is what to do with the C-ARES error or the ARES.H<br>> > errors on configure. Let them be or how can I install them properly? Also<br>> > after the installation how do I configure APACHE as on other distros I<br>> > could never get the XYMON page to come up because of a different www<br>> > folder and each distro has its own issues.<br>> <br>> Hmm. If you're installing from the base release tarball, it should be<br>> using c-ares 1.7.3 (which is locally included). What errors are you seeing<br>> when compiling?<br>> <br>> <br>> > Does anybody know of a complete guide or tutorial for newbies using which<br>> > I can get Xymon to work? I have followed almost 8 to 10 different Xymon<br>> > articles for different distros and could not get any to work because of<br>> > the versions difference and other issues.<br>> <br>> Indeed, there are a number of different ways of configuring xymon "out of<br>> the box", which is great for using it as a monitoring toolkit, but can<br>> make it confusing at times when just starting out.<br>> <br>> If you'd like a more "FHS"-y layout which might help in just getting an<br>> install going, there are RHEL7 RPMs at<br>> http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/testing/el7/x86_64/ that may be useful.<br>> <br>> <br>> HTH,<br>> <br>> -jc<br>> <br></div> </div></body>
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