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• Copy the opService tarball to the slave poller or master NMIS server (a tarball is a GZIP'd tar file, e.g. opHA-1.1.opService-Linux-x86_64-8.tar.gz)
  1. You may need to use SCP or FTP to get the file onto the server.
• The file will now likely be in the users home directory.
• If the installation directory does not already exist
• Change into the directory where the tarball was copied
• Untar the file

Version=8
#(not required for Debian/Ubuntu)
unalias cp
cd ~
tar xvf ~/opService-Linux-x86_64-$Version.tar.gz
cd opService-Linux-x86_64-$Version/

Run the installation program, answer the questions and opService will be installed.  The defaults will normally always work.

./install-opService.pl

Install opService Daemon

Setup init.d to handle opService

cp /usr/local/opmantek/install/opserviced.init.d /etc/init.d/opserviced
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/opserviced
service opserviced start

The daemon can be stopped or restarted using the command "service opserviced restart".

Setup the Log Files

Create the empty log files

touch /usr/local/opmantek/logs/opservice.log
touch /usr/local/opmantek/logs/incident.log
touch /usr/local/opmantek/logs/service_event.log
chown -R nmis:nmis /usr/local/opmantek/logs/
chmod 664 /usr/local/opmantek/logs/*log

Configuring opService

That is the topic for another article.