[Xymon] New to Xymon - having an issue

[Josh Luthman]

I wrote this guide a good long time ago, but should be very relative to
what you need.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_Guide/Compiling_on_CentOS


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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