[Opsview-users] Installation experience

[Alain W. <ad...@ph...>]

Hi,

I'm new to opsview, it was recommended to me by a friend after he heard that I was playing with nagios.

Points as I come across them (take/leave them as you wish):

1) 1/2 way through downloading the RPMs & some bloke from actiny 'phones me up.
   I don't want to be hassled - I put 'no spam' as my 'phone number -- I guess marketing directors can't take hints.

2) I did have nagios installed (Fedora core 6, x86_64), I had to uninstall it (+ a couple of others), renamed /etc/nagios first.

3) Installed : rpm -ivh *
   Got a message complaining about /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe not being found when it tried to run service opsview-agent,
   it was being a bit eager.

4) 'service opsview-agent' does not take a 'restart' argument - would be nice.

5) /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe - won't load -- it expects to find libssl.so.4 -- I have libssl.so.6, back to the source!
   I am using fedora core 6.

6) Hmmm, which one first: try base.

7) Need to install libmcrypt.

8) It didn't build nsca ... didn't notice the error in the zillions of lines of make; clean; rebuild under script. - OK installs.

9) Need to install buildtools before can do the core stuff. BTW: buildtools.tar.gz is not gzipped.

10) There is a distinct lack of README or INSTALL files ... even if it just pointed to where it was on some web pages.
    I follow the following since that is prob closest to a FC6 system:
	http://docs.opsview.org/doku.php?id=opsview2.7:rhel-installation
    There is much farting around on dependencies.

11) Web page recommends to disable iptables !!!!

12) The command:
	/usr/local/nagios/bin/rc.opsview gen_config
    complains that it cannot chown /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagconfgen.pl line 2425
    Which is not surprising since I am running as the user 'nagios'.
    A quick poke and I do this group ownerships by hand, .... several times ....
    BUT these directory names have spaces in them -- what have you been smoking guys ? -- Microsoft weed by the looks of things !!!

13) I am supposed to run the following, but the script does not exist:
	/etc/init.d/opsview-web start
    (BTW: if you want to do it the RedHat way you should use chkconfig & service).

14) I was told that opsview was a better nagios ... it could be, but nagios has much better documentation.

15) Run 'make test' in opsview-core & it can't find Opsview.pm .... your @INC is wrong.
    'make install' doesn't seem to fix this.
    There is one in /usr/local/nagios/lib ... but there is evidentally a missing 'lib' or '-I'.

16) I notice that there are 2 different versions of Opsview.pm, one from Dec 2005 the other April 2007.
    installer/lib & lib

17) Notice that Opsview.pm comes with opsview-core: run 'make install' again. No good, copy up by hand.
    Now it can't find ClassDBIExtras.pm
    Then I need Catalyst::Plugin::I18N Catalyst::Plugin::Snippets Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::FastMmap - then fails
    because Catalyst::View::JSON is not 'use'd. This would not get past the CPAN beta testers!

18) But anyway it can't find/read opsview.conf, so copy this into the the directory it needs it to be in ...

19) Then it fails not being able to locate Opsview/{Host.pm|Servicegroup.pm| ...} I doubt that this has ever
    been tested on a new machine.

20) Try a make install see if this works .... doesn't seem to do much.

21) I can't run it -- see (13), will someone please send me a copy.

Summary impression so far: 3/10

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Alain Williams
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