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I am disappointed in the lack of support for RHEL8 7.4 from Nagios 5.8.5. It installs with php7.2 and there are none of the crucial dependencies for php 7.4, namely php-imap and php-pecl-ssh2.
When will you provide a repository for it?

And why do you install MySQL 8.0 as default instead of MariaDB on a clean RHEL8.4?

We use the OS vendor's default packages. php-imap and php-pecl-ssh2 should be installable on PHP 7.2.

You can upgrade your PHP to 7.4 following this guide:

https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... 7-860.html

EDIT: It was a development decision to use MySQL 8. As an alternative you can offline your DB and use MariaDB if you'd like:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... Server.pdf

You include php-imap and php-pecl-ssh2 in your dependency repository, but only for PHP7.2 - which ensures it is not possible to upgrade to 7.4 with RedHats own repositories.
The guide you refer to does not have a section for RHEL8, but the RHEL7 one describes using other non-standard repositories, namely REMI, which is not acceptable in our environment.

You should just include php7.4 versions of your dependency packages in your repo, then it would work great.

HI,

You should just include php7.4 versions of your dependency packages in your repo, then it would work great

Noted. I'd be happy to submit a feature request with the dev team for using php7.4 on RHEL if you'd like.

As Sean mentioned, we support a number of operating systems (Ubuntu, Debian, Oracle, RHEL, Cent) for XI, and rely on the default packages provided by the vendor for maintainability.

Regards,
Benjamin

Yes please, I would love a feature request for that - and also for the next versions!!..

Hi @mrmit,

Got that submitted for you. Appreciate your feedback.

Let us know if you have need anything else or if we may close this topic. Regards, Benjamin