[Xymon] Xymon Newbie - Installation Issues

[Sam Robert]

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.
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?
Thank you.
Sam.
> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 04:37:08 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon Newbie - Installation Issues
> From: cleaver at terabithia.org
> To: sam.robert at outlook.com
> CC: xymon at xymon.com
> 
> On Thu, August 21, 2014 12:29 am, Sam Robert wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > I am a Linux and Xymon newbie to begin with so please go easy on me. Found
> > Xymon in my search for a simple yet powerful network monitor and love what
> > I have seen so far. However I cant seem to get it installed properly no
> > matter what. So far I have tried all instances of Linux over at AWS and so
> > far the best with the least amount of errors is Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> > 7.0 - Even on that, the RRDTOOL-DEVEL is nowhere to be found and after
> > spending half a day found the rpm at REPOFORGE and installed from there
> > and the ./configure seemed happy with it. However no matter what I do, I
> > could not find C-ARES-DEVEL to install and the RPM I found gave constant
> > errors.
> 
> 
> Hi there! Welcome to the club :)
> 
> On RHEL7, c-ares-devel, rrdtool-devel and selinux-policy-doc are all in
> the rhel-7-server-optional-rpms channel; you may need to add that using
> subscription-manager to install. If you're unable to add that channel into
> the Red Hat entitlement, you should also be able to use the CentOS 7
> versions in a pinch:
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/
> 
> 
> > Anyhow, my question is what to do with the C-ARES error or the ARES.H
> > errors on configure. Let them be or how can I install them properly? Also
> > after the installation how do I configure APACHE as on other distros I
> > could never get the XYMON page to come up because of a different www
> > folder and each distro has its own issues.
> 
> Hmm. If you're installing from the base release tarball, it should be
> using c-ares 1.7.3 (which is locally included). What errors are you seeing
> when compiling?
> 
> 
> > Does anybody know of a complete guide or tutorial for newbies using which
> > I can get Xymon to work? I have followed almost 8 to 10 different Xymon
> > articles for different distros and could not get any to work because of
> > the versions difference and other issues.
> 
> Indeed, there are a number of different ways of configuring xymon "out of
> the box", which is great for using it as a monitoring toolkit, but can
> make it confusing at times when just starting out.
> 
> If you'd like a more "FHS"-y layout which might help in just getting an
> install going, there are RHEL7 RPMs at
> http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/testing/el7/x86_64/ that may be useful.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -jc
> 
 		 	   		  
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