RE: [hobbit] Xymon CentOS 5 installation

["Neil Franken" <nfranken (at) theunlimitedworld.co.za>]

Hi Buchan

I am very new to Centos as I come from a Ubuntu/Opensuse background. Do
I add these repositories to Yum? I tried downloading them with firefox
and opening them with the software installer but it complains about
missing dependencies.

Any ideas?

Regards
Neil


-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net] 
Sent: 18 July 2009 05:22 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Cc: Neil Franken
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Xymon CentOS 5 installation

On Friday 17 July 2009 11:31:14 Neil Franken wrote:
> Hi Guys and Gals.
>
>
>
> I am busy moving my POC Xymon server to a full time dedicated server.
I
> have been using my Ubuntu Distro for development and testing and would
> like to install the server CentOS. I have a look at the installation
> instructions on the Wiki about CentOS spcifics but it seems bit
> outdated. For example it still creates a Hobbit user and so on. Can
> anyone here give me some pointers so I can avoid a lot of frustration.

Install the packages from a repo:

http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/xymon/

# yum install xymon
# service xymon start

Some files are in slightly different places than if you install
manually, in 
order to comply with packaging standards, so configs in /etc/xymon, data
in 
/var/lib/xymon, xymon home directory is /usr/lib*/xymon, with symlinks
to keep 
it consistent.

Regards,
Buchan