Re: [hobbit] Xymon New Server Advice

[Shaun Phillips <tainted.soul69 (at) googlemail.com>]

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.  Other might favour Debian
bases distros though.




On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:21 AM, <mv652 (at) softhome.net> wrote:

> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Mario
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