[Xymon] Xymon Newbie - Installation Issues

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Thu Aug 21 19:55:30 CEST 2014


Have you changed the repos at all?  You might install RPMforge for it and
many other great packages.

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On Aug 21, 2014 1:41 PM, "Sam Robert" <sam.robert at outlook.com> wrote:

> It says "yum no package rrdtool available" on a default instance of RHEL
> on Amazon AWS. Also, RRDTool is the one I am having the most trouble with
> on each distro. I have tried it on RHEL, Suse, Ubuntu & Amazon Linux. On
> each it's either not available or if it's available always has issues
> installing whether its the dependencies that are suddenly missing or
> something else. Didn't have any idea it was going to be so difficult to
> install RRDTool. Oh and where I used the YUM install, Xymon configure
> started throwing fits about not finding either RRDTool 1.0 or 1.2.
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> From: Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com
> To: sam.robert at outlook.com; xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: RE: [Xymon] Xymon Newbie - Installation Issues
> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:25:04 +0000
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>  What’s wrong with “yum install rrdtool-devel”?
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> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Sam Robert
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:29 AM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] Xymon Newbie - Installation Issues
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> Hello All,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Please Help!
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> Sam.
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