Installation vs. Corporate firewall

[wyoder]

Hi, Folks:

After purchasing Nagios XI and after a preliminary evaluation of logserver last year, we're getting into it. I've built a RHEL 6.7 server, simple but complete, to build the installation package.

Two items--first, a small guy:
The preq section error-exited due to a missing ' complains about the failure of:

ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org
23 Feb 15:27:08 ntpdate[6970]: no server suitable for synchronization found

This server is behind our corporate firewall so it can't reach pool.ntp.org. Our NTP client is fine, so I commented out this check.
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Second, more seriously, we can't make it past this section:
Downloading/unpacking pip
Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/: timed out
....
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/: timed out
Will skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/ when looking for download links for pip
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pip
Cleaning up...
Removing temporary dir /tmp/pip_build_root...
No distributions at all found for pip

At this point, I'm stuck. Is that a requirement to reach outside the firewall to install the code? Think it must be. Your advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
--Bill

[hsmith]

Pip is required for NLS to operate. You have a couple of choices. You can see if you can get an exception put in your firewall. Or, more simply, you can download our preinstalled OVA. Let us know if you have further questions.

[wyoder]

Thank you for your reply. I have poked a hole in the firewall, downloaded PIP, and completed the installation. We are good. You can close this support request.

--Bill Yoder

BTW, I still hit a couple warnings regarding PIP:

... pip in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
Cleaning up...
DEPRECATION: Python 2.6 is no longer supported by the Python core team, please upgrade your Python. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.6

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:120: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/late ... ormwarning.

If Nagioslogserver has dependencies on PIP, and if PIP is going to drop support for Python 2.6, and if Python 2.6 is all that's officially supported on Red Hat 6, then future Nagioslogserver-on-RHEL6 customers may be unable to use logserver. Hope that's not the case.

[hsmith]

CentOS/RHEL6 is probably the most used version of RHEL at the moment. I have faith that Redhat won't let pip exist in a non-functioning state. Likewise, if it becomes a problem it's something we'll definitely need to address in our product. CentOS6/RHEL6 should be just fine

[wyoder]

This posting is 'way old. Please close at your convenience.

--Bill Yoder