By: Ernest Byrd
This video guides with:
- Building a CentOS_6.7 platform
- (BEGINNING of Video – 14 minutes, 55 seconds)
- Installing the RemoteManagement Agent on the Linux platform
- (14 minutes, 55 seconds – 21 minutes, 25 seconds)
- Delivering a GUI interface to the CentOS platform
- (21 minutes, 25 seconds – END of Video)
The below material covers items used within the above video tutorial. Please use this as a text reference to ensure that proper commands and resources are utilized when performing the procedures.
Building a CentOS_6.7 platform
- Download and load the minimal .iso (http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/)
- Spin up ESXi and point to the minimal .iso package
- Navigate through the Operating System wizard
- In terminal, login with root account & password
Installing the RemoteManagement Agent on the Linux platform
NOTE: Perform the below as "root" / su
In terminal:
- yum install wget
- cd /etc/yum.repos.d
- wget http://repos.systemmonitor.us/rmmagent/CentOS_6/rmmagent.repo
- rpm --import http://repos.systemmonitor.us/rmmagent/CentOS_6/repodata/repomd.xml.key
- rpm -Uhv http://repos.systemmonitor.us/rmmagent/CentOS_6/x86_64/rmmagent-1.0.1.centos6-1.1.x86_64.rpm
- For step #5, you may need to install additional components first (/do these steps if error is seen in step #5):
- yum install smartmontools
- yum install unzip
- cd /usr/local/rmmagent
- ./rmmagentd –i
- Register rmmagent as a service using chkconfig to ensure the Linux Monitoring Agent starts after a reboot
- Please ensure the Linux Monitoring Agent is registered as a service to start automatically when the server enters runlevel 3. This can be achieved using chkconfig which updates system services runlevel information.
- Use --add <servicename> to add the service then --list <servicename> to ensure this was successful.
- chkconfig --add rmmagent
- chkconfig --list rmmagent
Delivering a GUI interface to the CentOS platform
In terminal:
- yum -y groupinstall "Desktop" "Desktop Platform" "X Window System" "Fonts"
- startx