OpenNMS

ch3 · n00b Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 24 Location: Belgium

Is there a plan to include OpenNMS in the portage tree?
It's quite hard to install on a non-rpm based distro (at least for me, it is

)
so I was wondering if I should wait or install Red-Hat (as it's for my work,
I need it for yesterday

).

Thanks
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ikkyu · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 3:48 pm Post subject:

I am in need of the same thing, I currently am trying to istall it by hand, if I get that going I might try my hand at creating an ebuild

ikkyu · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 7:21 pm Post subject:

I discovered that if you follow the install instructions from the opennms docs it breaks tomcat, will keep this thread updated with my progress

Cornfed · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 59

Broke tomcat for me as well. Anyone else have any luck? Any pointers?

Redeeman · l33t Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 958 Location: Portugal

hmm... this seems interessting

dermot · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 7:57 am Post subject:

Just wondering if anyone managed to figure out this problem with Tomcat yet? I'm this close to getting it all working, but I can't get OpenNMS to alter server.xml without breaking Tomcat.
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ikkyu · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 1:06 am Post subject:

note to anybody installing from source, in the install.pl script you need to edit the path way down in the script to /usr/lib/postgresql from /usr/lib/postgresql/lib

dermot · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 7:21 am Post subject:

I sussed that; my problem at this point is getting it to work with Tomcat, which just ain't happening. Any ideas?
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ikkyu · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:58 pm Post subject:

I am stuck a the same place, I was able to add the app however I couldn't get the authentication to work. Perhaps we need to go hit up the gentoo tomcat people and see if they can help, I will try my luck on the irc channels this afternoon.

ikkyu · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 3:08 am Post subject:

ok so after many hours, I have opennms running, here is what I did ymmv:

1. grab tarball of opennms 1.1.2-1 unpack in /opt/opennms

1.5 made sure postgres was emerged along with tomcat-4.0.29 and blackdown-jdk, edit the postgres config to turn on tcpsockets

2. create ~/.opennms-global.properties with the follwing entries

r.j.hall · n00b Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 53 Location: London

has anyone done an init script to start and stop OpenNMS? If so could you please post it to the forums.

Thanks
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djwilf · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Essex, UK

I am at the moment trying to build 1.1.3 on Gento

I have got the Build.install done, created the Database and linked the .jar files.

But now cant get it to start as it uses log4j and I am getting errors when I start tomcat, any one got it going under 1.1.3 ?

Thanks

djwilf · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Essex, UK

Has any one else got OPENNMS 1.1.4 working ?

I am intrested as I have it working on one server and not another and cant see the difference !

ahoogerhuis · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 31

TheZog · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Sunny Seattle

I've been interested in trying OpenNMS out as well for one of my client's network.
Thanks for the ebuild, I'll give it a shot!

TheZog · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Sunny Seattle

Well no dice.
It seems that OpenNMS has been updated a couple of times since the last ebuild was made. I tried changing the 1.2.1 ebuild to 1.2.2, but it failed to compile as soon as it finished unpacking. Checking the error log in the tmp dir.
I see this message:
BUILD FAILED
/var/tmp/portage/opennms-server-1.2.2/work/opennms-1.2.2-1/source/build.xml:384: No supported regular expression matcher found

Can anyone lend me a hand?

TheZog · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Sunny Seattle

OK, I've installed both dev-java/gnu-regexp & dev-java/jakarta-regexp, but no luck it still doesn't see a working regex.
However when I do a "java-config -l" I see both regex listed so I don't know why it's not finding them.

I installed ant and ant-tasks and now that error is gone.

ahoogerhuis · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 31

I'm out traveling, but I'll dig through this by the end of the week to update the builds, there are numerous other issues that needs correction, too

Thanks for the feedback!

-A

TheZog · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Sunny Seattle

That would be fantastic.
I've been trying to fix the ebuild, but I've never created my own and I'm also unfamiliar with OpenNMS so it's been quite frustrating.
Have a good trip and I'll be your OpenNMS test monkey when you get back.

TheZog · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Sunny Seattle

Any news?
I see that version 1.2.3 came out recently.

Beleaguered · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 19

There's a 1.2.2 ebuild in bugzilla:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51441

TheZog · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Sunny Seattle

OpenNMS doesn't seem to work with Tomcat5 and Tomcat version 4 is long gone.
Even after Google'ing, reading through the Opennms.org website, trying the ebuilds in bugzilla ( https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51441 ), etc.
I still can not get it to work. Tomcat just doesn't see it or load the web gui portion or something.

I hate to do it, but I give up.
I've spent far too much time on this and I need to get a good SNMP monitoring app up and running for my company's network. This is just too too painful to play with anymore.

I guess I'll keep looking...

ahoogerhuis · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 31

Sorry I've been absent on this, ive you have my ebuidl I can provide you with the tomcat-4 ebuild I run, if it is removed from portage. Try finding me on IRC on freenode.ent in #opennms (usually on as _snd). Besdides, most of the OpenNMS devs hang in htere and are great with helping out.

-A

roderick · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject:

I see there are two developments on-going for OpenNMS on Gentoo.

One seems to have allowed OpenNMS to talk via the tomcat user and tweaking some permissions in the OpenNMS tree. Does this work completely? Any issues or gotcha's? Has anyone checked on the OpenNMS lists to see if there are compelling reasons they haven't made this transition in their packages (like deb, RPM, etc)?

The other train seems to have left tomcat alone, and delved deeper into ensuring package dependency, etc.

Any chance the maintainers will converge?

I am really interested in seeing an official gentoo portage package for OpenNMS in the stable list.

Anyway, If there's anything I can do to assist, let me know. I have a test machine with Tomcat 4.1.30 and OpenNMS 1.2.2 (using the ebuild from Alex). I can install/uninstall OpenNMS to assist in testing the ebuilds.

Cheers.

ahoogerhuis · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 31

Thanks to good prodding from roderick on my cruddy ebuild, it's now shaped up and bit. The ebuild is here:

http://portage.boxed.no/net-analyzer/opennms-server/opennms-server-1.2.3-r3.ebuild

The gensync manifest, etc is at top of the directories. For now build it with:

USE="headless" emerge opennms-server

as this will make it not dpeend on tomcat-4.1.x. The OpenNMS webapp isn't ready for tomcat 5.x yet, and those who still ahve tomcat 4.1.x will know how to tinker it to work anyway. I'm thinking of pulling in one of the old portage 4.1.x ebuiold into my overlay to amke it all easier, but with a hefty warning.

-A