Data Center Management with openQRM on Centos 5.3 64bit (Installation)

http://openqrm.com/

A year ago I tested this application and it was pretty awesome, although it was still in development. Now I would like to give it a try and see if it is ready for production environments.

Initially, I got a CentOs 5.3 64 bit installed with 1 cpu and 1GB mem.
First we need to get the packages.

[root@openqrm ~]# mkdir openqrm
[root@openqrm ~]# cd openqrm/
[root@openqrm openqrm]# wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/openqrm/files/openQRM%204.5/RPM%20CentOS5%2064bit/openqrm-server-entire-4.5-centos5.x86_64.rpm/download

Make sure you install the packages required by openQRM. Regular Centos repos are going to miss some of the packages so I suggest you to install RPMFORGE repos

[root@openqrm ~]# wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

[root@openqrm ~]# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
warning: rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:rpmforge-release       ########################################### [100%]
[root@openqrm ~]# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Cleaning up Everything
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors

Now you can start to install packages using rpmforge repos.

[root@openqrm openqrm]# rpm -ivh openqrm-server-entire-4.5-centos5.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        /bin/ash is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        /usr/bin/expect is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        bind is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        dhcp is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        expect is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        httpd is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        iscsi-initiator-utils is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        mysql is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        mysql-server is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        nagios is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        nagios-devel is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        nagios-plugins is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        nagios-plugins-nrpe is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        perl(XML::Simple) is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        php is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        php-mysql is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        puppet-server is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        samba is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        screen is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        subversion is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        tftp-server is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        zabbix is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64
        zabbix-agent is needed by openqrm-server-4.5-centos5.x86_64


[root@openqrm openqrm]# yum install bind dhcp expect httpd iscsi-initiator-utils mysql mysql-server nagios nagios-devel nagios-plugins nagios-plugins-nrpe php php-mysql

[root@openqrm openqrm]# yum install puppet-server samba screen subversion tftp-server perl-XML-Simple




Ok we still need to get ash, zabbix, and zabbix-agent


[root@openqrm openqrm]# wget ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/3/mirror/centos/4.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/ash-0.3.8-20.x86_64.rpm
[root@openqrm openqrm]# wget ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/zabbix-agent-1.4.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
[root@openqrm openqrm]# wget ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/epel/5/x86_64/zabbix-1.4.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

[root@openqrm openqrm]# yum install net-snmp-libs iksemel

Then you can install all the aditional RPMs and finally

[root@openqrm openqrm]# rpm -ivh openqrm-server-entire-4.5-centos5.x86_64.rpm

Done

After install you can access the openQRM console in http://openqrm-server-ip/openqrm/

user: openqrm
password: openqrm