Bug 1006201 - nagios dependency and hard-coded configuration file locations while icinga can satisfy check-mk dependency
Summary: nagios dependency and hard-coded configuration file locations while icinga ca...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: check-mk
Version: el6
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrea Veri
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-10 08:31 UTC by reader_1000
Modified: 2020-11-30 14:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-11-30 14:56:58 UTC
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Description reader_1000 2013-09-10 08:31:27 UTC
Description of problem:
Check-mk package installs nagios package as its dependency but icinga (https://www.icinga.org/) package can also satisfy check-mk requirements.
So nagios should be an optional dependency. This may not be a big problem, but since with the way package install itself, config file locations
than needs to bu used for check-mk are hard-coded for nagios package. Check-mk's manual installation lets you to change this locations with  ~/.check_mk_setup.conf file (http://mathias-kettner.com/checkmk_getting_started.html) but I yum installation does not use this file. As a result,
it becomes a lot harder to use check-mk with icinga.

Since there is a ongoing process for icinga package (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693608) it would be nice
to have some way to solve these problems.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.2.2-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install check-mk
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Actual results:
It installs nagios as dependency and use config files accordingly.

Expected results:
Nagios should be optional and config files should be configured for already installed icinga package.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Andrea Veri 2013-09-10 08:54:07 UTC
We should probably make two seperated packages each with nagios / icinga's configuration files. That way you can 'yum install check-mk-config-nagios' or 'yum install check-mk-config-icinga' accordingly.

I'll look into this. Not top priority right now though since Icinga still has to join the repositories as per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693608.

Comment 2 Matt Pusateri 2015-11-13 16:49:17 UTC
Shinken can also use check-mk or check-km-multisite.

Comment 3 Andrea Veri 2016-02-19 19:58:44 UTC
I should start investigating how to deal with this situation again. It has to be said that according to [1] ~/.check_mk_setup.conf is not honored when setup.sh is ran with the --yes flag, that means I should find another way to support multiple monitoring softwares.

[1] https://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_calling_setup.html

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2020-11-05 16:46:54 UTC
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Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2020-11-30 14:56:58 UTC
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