Hi there again,

thanks a lot, for your reply...
As it seems, that there is no easy way of installing opsview in Suse,
it lead to our first debian based live servers... :)

Thanks for that, and with apt it was no problem installing opsview...

Best wishes

Dominic


Duncan Ferguson wrote:
>
> On 3 Aug 2009, at 13:39, Dominic Settele wrote:
>>
>> I am free to choose the distribution of the master server,
>> so I thought about using Debian there to be able to use the
>> binary packages.
>> Is it then possible to have the slave servers running suse?
>
> Currently (to ease upgrades and initial setup) the master server
> copies various compiled C binaries to the slave - this is why the docs
> say to use the same OS and ARCH for all opsview servers.
>
> I am aware people on the list have used different arch's between the
> master and the slave, but certainly not OS's
>
> The best thing to do is to use the lower common denominator for the
> master server, i.e. 32 bit SUSE or whichever the most common slave you
> have is, and ensure the 64 bit slaves have the full 32 bit
> compatibility packages on them.
>
> Really, as long as you can standardise on the OS you may be able to
> work around the different ARCH's
>
> We have looked for sponsors for us to do the build work on SUSE but as
> yet haven't found anyone willing.  That said, we have had several
> installations working on SUSE in the past.
>
> The source packages are within the yum repos's should you want to
> rebuild them yourself and I did put up some info on rebuilding the
> agent rpm yesterday here:
> http://docs.opsview.org/doku.php?id=developer:rebuild:rpm_agent - the
> principle for the other rpm's should be similar.
>
>   Duncs
>
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