distributed nagios ?

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 12/15/2010 03:25 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 4:46 AM
>>
>> On 12/14/2010 08:39 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote:
>>>
>>> Hooray!
>>>
>>> Actually, I wanted to point out a few things I found when building the
>>> most recent version of merlin recently.  At the heart of my issues
>>> is that our team is not allowed root access on these servers (long boring
>>> corporate story...) so I'm installing everything in an alternate tree.
>>>
>>> 1) There are a couple of hard-coded paths in ipc.c and node.c for
>>> the socket and the binlogs.  I'm assuming that's intentional, but it
>>> does mean one has to manually edit the source files to point to different
>>> paths rather than specifying anything like that during the build process.
>>>
>>
>> The socket location can be configured. Binlogs cannot. I'll amend that in
>> the next release though. The core functionality is there, but there's no
>> option to set it in the config files, which is kinda stupid.
> 
> "Binlogs cannot" meaning it can't be moved without modifying the code
> directly, right?  Because that's what I did :-).
> 

That's correct.

>>> 2) Because we're trying to put all the files into an alternate tree, the
>>> installation of 'mon' from install-merlin.sh didn't really work right.
> 
>> Yes. The install-merlin.sh script is designed to be usable from the
>> rpm spec file, and it's meant to aid people who want to install
>> everything in its default location. Would $root_path/$bindir/mon
>> work for you? Since you can set $root_path to whatever you want,
>> I suppose it should.
> 
> Yes, I believe that would work for me.  I'm not setting $root_path at all.
> 

Sweet. I'll add something to that effect then. For us, it won't make a
difference, but if it makes life easier for you, then that's just all
the better.

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