OpenNms on Debian sarge HOWTO
Ok, so I couldn't make Solaris work for me. I am but a meer mortal, so i had a go with deb, and it works!
This is a line by line on how to install OpenNms on deb sarge. If i have missed anything, please tell me & i'll sort it out. I guessed that you need apache, but i'm not sure, as i wanted it on the box for other reasons anyway.
download deb minimal install cd (not the business card one, the other one)
Install with standard settings, no packages and the following disk layout:
Name Flags Part Type FS Type Size
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hda5 Boot Logical Linux 98.68*
hda6 Logical Linux 4096.19
hda7 Logical Linux 2048.10
hda8 Logical Linux 13267.38 <--or whatever you have left. (i used 20gb leaving 10 spare)
hda9 Logical Linux swap 509.97
Part. Mount Description
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hda5 /boot Kernel images for booting
hda6 / Root file system containing system files, libraries and binaries.
hda7 /home User home directories, user downloads and docs
hda8 /var Variable data. All OpenNMS database entries, log files, cache, etc
We need to add the OpenNms repository to apt's sources, so add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://debian.opennms.org/ debian/opennms stablealso add 'contrib' to the section list for your default mirror, in my case
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main
becomes
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib
we do this because tomcat is is in the contrib section.
next run a quick
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
to get updated with the latest patches
Then apt-get the following:
apache2 java-common xlibs gcc bzip2 lynx make libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 sun-jdk1.4-installer libtomcat4-java tomcat4 tomcat4-admin tomcat4-webapp
note: you can do all this at once with the command
apt-get install java-common xlibs gcc bzip2 lynx make libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 sun-jdk1.4-installer libtomcat4-java tomcat4 tomcat4-admin tomcat4-webapp
Now grab the Sun J2SDK 1.4.0_02-1. I did this by using a windoze box to browse the sun site, agree to the relavent bits and then copy the location to the clipboard, and then used wget to grab it. (you have to use the -O switch as the copied filename is too long) so in my case:
wget -Oj2sdk-1_4_0_02-linux-i586.bin http://192.18.108.148/ECom/EComTicketServlet/BEGIN48D1342103F26ADB68BD4E8F5EF4051C/-2147483648/1549378695/1/734510/734390/1549378695/2ts+/westCoastFSEND/j2sdk-1.4.2_12-oth-JPR/j2sdk-1.4.2_12-oth-JPR:5/j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586.bin
then build the deb package from the bin:
build-sun-jdk14 j2sdk-1_4_0_02-linux-i586.bin
and install the resulting deb
dpkg --install j2sdk1.4_1.4.2-1_i386.deb
Now install OpenNms
apt-get install opennms libgetopt-mixed-perl
The postgres installation script will run, select the C locale & datetime format that is best for you.
run
/usr/share/opennms/bin/runjava -s
to get opennms to locate java.
Postgres needs a couple of tweaks to run properly, set
tcpip_socket = true max_connections = 256 shared_buffers = 1024
in /var/lib/postgres/data/postgresql.conf and to allow openNms access to the database
comment out all of /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf (wirh # at the startt of every line) and add to the bottom:
# TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD local all all trust host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust host all all ::1 ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff trust
Now run
/usr/share/opennms/bin/install -disU
to set up the database
stop tomcat4
/etc/init.d/tomcat4 stop
, then edit the /etc/default/tomcat4 file to include
TOMCAT4_USER="root".
then restart tomcat4
/etc/init.d/tomcat4 start
check that the services are scheduled to start automatically
update-rc.d tomcat4 defaults update-rc.d postgresql defaults update-rc.d opennms defaults update-rc.d httpd defaults
and start them all up
/etc/init.d/tomcat4 start && /etc/init.d/postgresql start && /etc/init.d/opennms start && /etc/init.d/httpd start
(i actually tend to reboot around here to chec that they start automatically.)
To check that the backend of OpenNms is running use
opennms -v status
you should see something like this:
snmp:~# opennms -v status OpenNMS.Eventd : running OpenNMS.Trapd : running OpenNMS.Dhcpd : running OpenNMS.Actiond : running OpenNMS.Capsd : running OpenNMS.Notifd : running OpenNMS.Scriptd : running OpenNMS.Rtcd : running OpenNMS.Pollerd : running OpenNMS.Collectd : running OpenNMS.Threshd : running OpenNMS.Discovery : running OpenNMS.Vacuumd : running opennms is running snmp:~#
Now check the frontend by going to http://[SERVER_IP]:8180/opennms
the default login is admin with the password admin.
Part 2 still to come with configuration info...
refrences:
http://www.netstatz.com/opennms/Debian_ONMS_HOWTO.html#toc2
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=23937&group_id=4141
