Installation

Ensure the messaging system is installed and configured first.

Install the following packages based on the role of the server:

Follow the instructions below based on your platform.

When Rancid is installed, run send2slaves on the master to send new rancid plugin files to slaves.

The repository sources.list configuration is slightly different based on your OS.

Add to your sources.list:

deb http://{username}:{password}@downloads.opsview.com/opsview-enterprise/latest/apt etch main
deb http://{username}:{password}@downloads.opsview.com/opsview-rancid/latest/apt etch main

Add to your sources.list:

deb https://{username}:{password}@downloads.opsview.com/opsview-enterprise/latest/apt <OS> main 
deb https://{username}:{password}@downloads.opsview.com/opsview-rancid/latest/apt <OS> main

Where OS is one of:

• lenny
• hardy

You can add repository keys to your system if you want to ensure the repository is signed.

apt-get update
apt-get install opsview-rancid opsview-rancid-master

Note: Opsview and Opsview Web will be restarted as part of the installation

If this comes back with:

Failed to fetch http://USER:PASSWORD@downloads.opsview.com/opsview-rancid/latest/apt/dists/etch/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  401 Authorization Required

Then you probably have the wrong credentials.

Add to your repository list:

[opsview_rancid]
name = Opsview Rancid
baseurl = https://{username}:{password}@downloads.opsview.com/opsview-rancid/latest/yum/<OS>/5/$basearch
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgcheck = 0

Where OS is one of:

• centos
• rhel

yum makecache
yum install opsview-rancid opsview-rancid-master

Note: Opsview and Opsview Web will be restarted during the installation.

If you get an error like:

https://downloads.opsview.com/opsview-rancid/latest/yum/redhat/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 401: Authorization Required

You probably have the wrong credentials.

Note: You need to use Opsview on Solaris with Coolstack.

Install these prerequisite packages, available from Solaris Companion disk or Sun Freeware:

• SMCtcl (tcl-8.5.3-sol10-x86-local)
• SMCexpct (expect-5.43.0-sol10-x86-local)
• SMCdb (db-4.2.52.NC-sol10-intel-local for i386)
• SMCneon (neon-0.25.5-sol10-x86-local for i386)
• SMCsubv143 (subversion-1.4.3-sol10-x86-local for i386)
• SMCenscr (enscript-1.6.4-sol10-x86-local for i386)

Setup a link so that svn and enscript are available globally:

ln -s /usr/local/bin/svn /usr/bin/svn
ln -s /usr/local/bin/enscript /usr/bin/enscript

Opsview Rancid package files are available from the filestore at https://downloads.opsview.com/opsview-rancid/latest/solaris.

Install:

gunzip ALTopsview-*.pkg.gz
pkgadd -d ./ALTopsview-repository-perl-<VERSION>.pkg all
pkgadd -d ./ALTopsview-repository-<VERSION>.pkg all
pkgadd -d ./ALTopsview-rancid-perl-<VERSION>.pkg all
pkgadd -d ./ALTopsview-rancid-master-<VERSION>.pkg all
pkgadd -d ./ALTopsview-rancid-collector-<VERSION>.pkg all
pkgadd -d ./ALTopsview-rancid-<VERSION>.pkg all

Note: If you are upgrading, you will need to pkgrm the existing packages first

Note: Opsview and Opsview Web will be restarted as part of the installation

See instructions above. However, you only need to install the following packages (in this order):

• opsview-rancid-perl
• opsview-rancid-collector

Make sure the nagios user has opsview group access.