On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Ken Foskey wrote:
Hi,
just did a deploy of NAGIOS/Munin/RRDtool and friends to Solaris 10 SPARC.
This was for a company who will remain nameless who we "outsourced"
monitoring to, who insisted on the above rather than using the
shiny SunMC infrastructure we already had for the purpose.
Porting this was a case of dependency, dependency......
Munin wants a lot of stuff - about 20 perl modules and
then it wants RRDTool which in turn wants a whole
bunch of obscure shared libraries such as cairo, pixman and pango,
which is fine if you are a web 2.0 monkey, but in sysadmin world
it is annoying.
And then RRDtool wants you to have practically the latest of
everything. And then it wants something called "pkgconfig"
which is great if you are developer, but for sysadmin, very
annoying. And then finally you can have the RRDtool perl module......
And then don't start me on some of the undocumented problems
that caused gcc to break the compile because some stupid Linux hacker
didn't understand POSIX compliance.......
So, in the end, I got the whole stack working......
My point......... (oblinux)
If you have an older, broken or improperly installed
system, you will find Munin a pain to install.
It wants practically the latest of everything, even touch libglib.
If you have all your ducks in a row, it is still a pain but possible.
Porting to Solaris 10 was easy for me, but if it had been a broken
or older system, I doubt it would have got there.
Munin looks OK, but it was obviously created by
a bunch of anal-retentive module hackers with
a mandate on making sure their install occcupies
as much sysadmin brain power as possible. Approach only if you
have a reasonably shiny system......
rachel
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