[Xymon] Newbie - help to install packages/configuration for server/client

[Josh Luthman]

You need the dev package.  I think on Debian it's something a bit
different than what I'm familiar with (RHEL).  Try apt-get install
librrd-dev

Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Rafiqul Ahsan <rafiqul.ahsan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having an issue with running configure, where it complains about
> RRDtools. I already have RRDtools installed in /usr/bin and accordingly I
> have used the below options to configure. It does not seem to be working
> either. Can anyone please help ?
>
> Here are the logs :
>
> xymon-4.3.7$ ./configure
>
> Configuration script for Xymon
>
> This script asks a few questions and builds a Makefile to compile Xymon
>
> Checking your make-utility
> Checking pre-requisites for building Xymon
>
> Checking for fping ...
> Xymon has a built-in ping utility (xymonping)
> However, it is not yet fully stable and therefore it
> may be best to use the external fping utility instead.
> I could not find fping on your system
> Do you want to use xymonping [Y/n] ?
> Y
> OK, I will use xymonping.
>
>
> Checking for RRDtool ...
> RRDtool include- or library-files not found. These are REQUIRED for Xymon
> RRDtool can be found at http://www.mrtg.org/rrdtool/
> If you have RRDtool installed, use the "--rrdinclude DIR" and "--rrdlib DIR"
> options to configure to specify where they are.
> rafiqul at sysops-rafi:~/Downloads/xymon-4.3.7$ ./configure --rrdinclude
> /usr/bin --rrdlib /usr/lib
> rafiqul at sysops-rafi:~/Downloads/xymon-4.3.7$ ./configure
> "--rrdinclude=/usr/bin" "--rrdlib=/usr/lib"
> rafiqul at sysops-rafi:~/Downloads/xymon-4.3.7$ ./configure
> --rrdinclude=/usr/bin  --rrdlib=/usr/lib
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Rafiqul Ahsan <rafiqul.ahsan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, All
>>
>> I am new to this forum and also newbie to the monitoring. I just found out
>> about Xymon and I was wondering if I can have installed a monitoring server
>> in linux (debian squeez) and client in my PC (windows 7), and try some basic
>> monitoring stuffs to start with. Could anyone please send me the link from
>> where I can download Xymon packages and start install ? Is there any
>> tutorials out there that I can follow for server, client installation,
>> configuration and tests ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Raf
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Rafiqul Ahsan
> Reston, VA 20194
>
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