[hobbit] Xymon New Server Advice

[Martin Flemming]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Shaun Phillips wrote:

> You could go with Redhat enterprise if you want to shell out the money for
> it otherwise go for Centos, it's built off the same source code as RHE but
> it's completely free and supported for 5 years.

or scientificlinux another redhat clone ...

  https://www.scientificlinux.org/

 	martin
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> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:21 AM, <mv652 at softhome.net> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> I have two main questions but thought it best to split them up in two
>> separate mails.
>> My first question is regarding an 'upgrade' or 'new install' of Xymon.
>> I've been using Xymon 4.2.3 on a 'test' system for the past few months.
>>  Now that I feel more comfortable working with the system, creating external
>> scripts etc. I'd like to move it into a 'production' server.
>> a) Which Linux distribution is known to be the most stable to manage the
>> Xymon server.
>> Note* - I don't want to start any flame wars regarding various
>> distributions, just an honest assesment of the distribution that should give
>> me least problems with binaries, dependancies etc.
>> b) Is the 4.3.0 beta 2 version stable enough to put into production?  Are
>> there any major known issues I need to be aware of?
>> c) Would you recommend an upgrade or rather a clean install of the Xymon
>> server? - I'm not too concerned about losing the past months stats at this
>> stage.
>> d) Is there anything else I need to take into consideration?
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>> Thanks,
>> Mario
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