Installation Prerequisites
- The individual performing this installation has some Linux experience.
- NMIS8 is installed on the same server where opReports will be installed
- NMIS8 is installed in /usr/local/nmis8
- OpReports will be installed into /usr/local/opmantek
- Root access is available (not always needed but much easier)
Installation Steps
- Copy the opReports tarball to the server (a tarball is a GZIP'd tar file, e.g. opReports-2012-05-09-1315.tar.gz)
- 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
unalias cp
cd /usr/local
tar xvf ~/opReports-<version>.tar.gz
cd opmantek/
cp /usr/local/opmantek/bin/opupdateconfig.pl /usr/local/opmantek/install/opReports.nmis /usr/local/opmantek/conf/opReports.nmis
- Update the crontab to run the default reports every day for the last 1 day and every week for the last week. Below is the crontab entries required.
- To edit the crontab, use the command "crontab -e"
######################################################
# Opmantek Config
######################################################
# Run opReports Batch
0 0 * * * /usr/local/opmantek/bin/opReports-daily.sh
0 0 * * Sun /usr/local/opmantek/bin/opReports-weekly.sh
Patching opReports
Often patches will be released for opReports, the following are commands to install a patch, unless other instructions are specifically provided.
unalias cp
cd ~
tar xvf ~/opReports-<version>.tar.gz
cd opmantek/
cp -r * /usr/local/opmantek/
/usr/local/opmantek/bin/opupdateconfig.pl /usr/local/opmantek/install/opReports.nmis /usr/local/opmantek/conf/opReports.nmis