Installing on Solaris

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Description of installation on SunOS 5.9 (Solaris 9) on 64bit sparc system

Prerequisites

general utilities

tested with gcc 3.4.6 installed in /usr/local
check your PATH - variable to contain

 /usr/local/bin for gcc
 /usr/ccs/bin for make

CAUTION: To avoid confusion with library paths etc. try to get the newest versions of all needed tools from http://www.sunfreeware.com. Almost all newer tools will install to /usr/local. Almost all problems described below were due to the mix of older and newer tools/librarys and vanished after updating those tools. If you already have older versions of the tools installed they may have been installed to different paths:

 /opt/sfw
 /opt/csw
 /usr/sfw
 /usr/local

check carefully messages from .configure to see if you included the appropriate paths and library paths! If some libraries are "elsewhere" you might try

 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=elswhere
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

download and unzip following tools from sun freeware:

 gcc
 java
 libiconv
 tar
 gzip
 bash
 libintl
 perl
 db
 readline
 zlib
 render
 xrender
 expat
 xft
 libpng
 libart_lgpl
 fontconfig
 freetype

install them with the following command for all downloaded files

 gunzip filename
 pkgadd -d filename

jicmp

download sources according to description in Jicmpto your installation-directory
cd to your installation-directory
run

./configure
./make
./make install

Libraries will be installed in /usr/local/lib
Program will be installed as /usr/local/share/java/jicmp.jar

if you get following error during make

In file included from /usr/include/string.h:18,
                from IcmpSocket.h:60,
                from IcmpSocket.c:55:
/usr/include/iso/string_iso.h:60: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `memcmp'
/usr/include/iso/string_iso.h:61: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `memcpy'
/usr/include/iso/string_iso.h:65: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `strcmp'
/usr/include/iso/string_iso.h:66: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `strcpy'
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `IcmpSocket.lo'
Current working directory /usr/local/src/jicmp-1.0.7
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'

try

CFLAGS=-fno-builtin ./configure
make

if you get errors during make like

In file included from IcmpSocket.c:56:
IcmpSocket.h:137:3: #error "not sure how to get an IP header struct on 
this platform!"
IcmpSocket.h:145:3: #error "not sure how to get an ICMP header struct on 
this platform!"

try

CFLAGS="-DHAVE_NETINET_IP_H -DHAVE_NETINET_IP_ICMP_H" ./configure
make

rrd

download rrd (and any required prerequisites) from http://www.sunfreeware.com to your installation-directory
cd to your installation-directory
REMARK: the compiled package didn't work for this configuration so rrd source code was installed, see below.
Installation of compiled package:

run

 gunzip filename.gz
 pkgadd -d filename

example: rrdtool-1.2.19-sol9-sparc-local.gz will install to /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19

this package didn't work together with jrrd, following error was generated when running configure for jrrd:

 checking for library containing rrd_create... no
 configure: error: cannot find rrd library with LDFLAGS = " -L/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19/lib"

Installation from source code:

download rrd source code(and any required prerequisites) from http://www.sunfreeware.com to your installation-directory
cd to your installation-directory
look where other prerequisited open source tools (like libfreetype) are installed in your system and change the path in the example below, here /usr/sfw was used
run

 LDFLAGS=-L/usr/sfw/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/sfw/include ./configure
 make

if the make - job stops working with

 Making all in examples
 sed 's,@'exec_prefix@,/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19,' > cgi-demo.cgi

as last lines in output press CTRL-D (the job obviously tries to read from command line). cgi-demo will be empty...

 make install

example: rrdtool-1.2.19-sol9-sparc-local.gz will install to /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19

jRRD

download jrrd-1.0.1.tar.gz from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4141 to your installation-directory
cd to your installation-directory
replace the path to the rrdtool in the example below with the path to your rrdtool installation
replace the path to the java-jdk in the example below with the path to your java installation
run

gunzip -c jrrd-1.0.1.tar.gz | tar -xcf -
cd jrrd-1.0.1
./configure --with-rrd=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19 --with-java=/usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_15
make
make install

Libraries will be installed in /usr/local/lib
Program will be installed as /usr/local/share/java/jrrd.jar

PostgrSQL

read Performance_tuning#PostgreSQL_8.1before installation so you can design your configuration
download postgres packages from http://www.sunfreeware.com to your installation-directory. Postgres postgresql-8.3.0-sol9-sparc-local.gz is used in this example.

 WARNING: at the moment (04/15/2008) postgresql-8.3.0 is available for download, but ist only supported in the latest nightly snapshots for opennms 1.6 (see bug http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2277). So you may have to look for another way to get postgres 8.2

cd to your installation-directory
run

 gunzip postgresql-8.3.0-sol9-sparc-local.gz
 pkgadd -d postgresql-8.3.0-sol9-sparc-local

postgres should now be installed in /usr/local/pgsql
create start script /etc/init.d/postgres for start/stop of database
create link Snnpostgresql in /etc/rc3.d
make data directory according to your design

 mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/pgdata
 chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/pgdata

initialize a new DB (target directory has to be empty!)

 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/pgdata

if you have problems starting postgres or any of it's tools with following error message:

 pg_ctl
 ld.so.1: pg_ctl: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
 Killed

then look for the path to this library libgcc_s.so.1 (comes with gcc compiler) and add the environment-variable (adjust the path to your needs)

 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

read /documentation/InstallUnStable for configuring security etc.. The configuration files mentioned there should be in your data directory /usr/local/pgsql/pgdata after initializing the database with initdb as described above.

iplike

download iplike solaris package following the links for downloading opennms in Main_Pageto your installation-directory
cd to your installation-directory
run

 gunzip iplike-1.0.6-sol9-sparc-local.gz
 pkgadd -d iplike-1.0.6-sol9-sparc-local

iplike should now be installed in /usr/local/lib

opennms

download opennms[-snapshot]-version.tar.gz to your installation-directory
cd to your opennms installation-directory (probably /opt/opennms, used below in the examples)
run

 /usr/local/bin/gunzip -c installation-directory/opennms[-snapshot]-version.tar.gz \
                          >opennms[-snapshot]-version.tar
 tar -xf opennms[-snapshot]-version.tar

if your /usr/local/bin/gunzip complains

 /usr/local/bin/gunzip: not found

then you probably have no /usr/local/bin/bash. Edit /usr/local/bin/gunzip and change the path in the first line to your bash or ksh like

 #!/usr/bin/ksh

Be careful with gzipp'ed tar-Files from opennms on Solaris: use Gnu-gunzip to unpack. If not you may get errors like

tar: A lone zero block at 364941

On Solaris 10 if you receive the following error message when unpacking with tar:

tar: directory checksum error

Make sure you have the GNU tar package installed (SUNWgtar or a version from sunfreeware), and unpack with:

gtar xvf opennms[-snapshot]-version.tar

This may work or may not, it is difficult to determine wether all files are installed correctly or not.

Workaround if you have another system with gnu-tar (most or all linux systems): unpack the archive there and pack it again with

tar --format=ustar -cf filename *

If you still have problems try the following

 cd temp_install_dir
 cp download_dir/opennms*rpm .
 rpm2cpio opennms-1.3.7-1.noarch.rpm | cpio -dim
 rpm2cpio opennms-core-1.3.7-1.noarch.rpm | cpio -dim
 rpm2cpio opennms-docs-1.3.7-1.noarch.rpm | cpio -dim
 rpm2cpio opennms-webapp-jetty-1.3.7-1.noarch.rpm | cpio -dim
 
 # you will get opt etc usr and var dirs, move them appropriately:
 mv etc/profile.d /etc
 mv var/log/opennms/ /var/log
 mv var/opennms/ /var
 mv opt/opennms/* /opt/opennms
 mv usr/share/doc/opennms-1.3.7/ /usr/share/doc/
 
 cd /opt/opennms
 chmod +x bin/*
 chmod +x contrib/*
 chmod -x contrib/*.README
 chmod -x contrib/opennms.mib

run

 /opt/opennms/bin/runjava

when this documentation was written java was not found correctly as it was installed (from the sun freeware packet) in /usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_15 so

 /opt/opennms/bin/runjava -S /usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_15/bin/java

did the job

run

 /opt/opennms/bin/install -dis

to initialize the database.

now you should be able to start opennms

 /opt/opennms/bin/opennms start

Installing on Solaris

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Prerequisites

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jicmp

rrd

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PostgrSQL

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