Problems installing Nagios XI.

[jemurray]

We are interested in evaluating Nagios XI to see how it compares to the Nagios Core installation we are using now.

A new server was built using CentOS6:

[jemurray@iii ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)

The installation is "base server" only.

The only manual additions were to add the EPEL repository so that puppet could be installed. I verified no additional packages were added:

[jemurray@iii ~]$ yum list installed | grep epel
augeas-libs.x86_64 1.1.0-1.el5 @epel
epel-release.noarch 5-4 installed
facter.x86_64 1.6.18-3.el5 @epel
puppet.noarch 2.6.18-3.el5 @epel
ruby-augeas.x86_64 0.4.1-1.el5 @epel
ruby-shadow.x86_64 1.4.1-7.el5 @epel


I have attached the installation log to this ticket for your review. There are multiple instances of me trying to run ./fullinstall in there.


Do you have any thoughts?

[scottwilkerson]

I looked at the log you emailed and it looks like you have some other things that have been installed

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Obsoleting Packages
nagios-nrpe.x86_64                         2.14-1.el6.rf                rpmforge
    nrpe.x86_64                            2.14-5.el5                   @epel    

Are you sure this was a clean base system, and not a corporate build that comes preinstalled with some items?

also, it looks like you have some el5 packages on this el6 system...

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dejavu-fonts-common.noarch                 2.33-4.el5                   epel    
dejavu-sans-fonts.noarch                   2.33-4.el5                   epel    
fontpackages-filesystem.noarch             1.44-1.el5.1                 epel    
iotop.noarch                               0.4.1-2.el5                  epel    
perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2.x86_64             2.052-1.el6.rf               rpmforge
perl-parent.noarch                         1:0.225-6.el5                epel    
puppet.noarch                              2.7.20-1.el6.rf              rpmforge
python-nose.noarch                         0.11.3-2.el5                 epel    
python-paramiko.noarch                     1.7.6-1.el5                  epel    
rpmforge-release.x86_64                    0.5.3-1.el6.rf               rpmforge
Obsoleting Packages
nagios-nrpe.x86_64                         2.14-1.el6.rf                rpmforge
    nrpe.x86_64                            2.14-5.el5                   @epel  

Looking more closely, it appears you installed EPEL for CentOS 5 not 6...

[jemurray]

Scott,

I am hanging my head in shame. I am so very sorry that I posted such a obvious problem. I completely overlooked that fact that I installed the wrong EPEL when I built this system. That was 100% the problem. When I removed the el5 repo and added the el6 repo the installation went just fine.

Again, I apologize for wasting your time.


--Jason

[tmcdonald]

Hey, these things happen :) No need to beat yourself up over it. I'll go ahead and lock this now.