The easiest way to install Opsview on RHEL and CentOS is to use the yum repositories.

Information on supported releases can be found here

Set up RPMForge to install any necessary dependancies by downloading and installing the RPMForge release package

wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.<DIST>.rf.<ARCH>.rpm
rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.<DIST>.rf.<ARCH>.rpm

Where <DIST> is one of

• el4 for RHEL4/CentOS4
• el5 for RHEL5/CentOS5

and <ARCH> is one of

• i386
• x86_64

If the site specified in the above wget is not available, there is a list of alternative sites to obtain the package on the RPMForge web site.

Then, use your favourite editor to create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/opsview.repo containing the following lines:

[opsview]
name = Opsview
baseurl = http://downloads.opsera.com/opsview-community/latest/yum/<OS>/$releasever/$basearch
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgcheck = 0

Opsview Enterprise Subscription users should instead use the following baseurl

# This requires authentication
baseurl = https://<username>:<password>@downloads.opsera.com/opsview-enterprise/latest/yum/<OS>/$releasever/$basearch

Where:

• OS is either centos or rhel

For example, community users can use the following baseurl:

baseurl = http://downloads.opsera.com/opsview-community/latest/yum/centos/$releasever/$basearch

Opsview Enterprise Subscription users can specify the version of Opsview if they do not want to track the latest enterprise version (use the major version instead of latest such as 3.4 or 3.6, etc)

For example, enterprise users can use the following baseurl for tracking major releases:

baseurl = http://user:pass@downloads.opsera.com/opsview-enterprise/latest/yum/centos/$releasever/$basearch

or the following baseurl for only tracking releases of 3.6:

baseurl = http://user:pass@downloads.opsera.com/opsview-enterprise/3.6/yum/centos/$releasever/$basearch

— Duncan Ferguson 2010/02/18 11:01

Yum should automatically work out all dependencies when installing Opsview, but in the event that installing the opsview package does not also bring in opsview-base, opsview-perl, etc then follow these steps

• Ensure yum-updatesd-helper is not running
• yum remove opsview
• yum clean all
• yum makecache

Running yum deplist opsview should now show the correct dependacies and allow opsview to be installed correctly.

Note: if rrdtool is > 1.3, then you will also need to install

• dejavu-lgc-fonts.

Note: if rrdtool is > 1.3, then you will also need to install

• dejavu-lgc-fonts.