AIX with yum

Document describes installation of LPAR2RRD server prerequisites on AIX where is yum available.

  • Install Apache and RRDTool:
    yum install httpd rrdtool rrdtool-perl
    Do not use rrdtool-1.7.0-4, it has a bug, use older or newer RRDTool versions.

  • Configure Apache:
    vi /opt/freeware/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
    Enable CGI (it is hashed by default): 
    <IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
        LoadModule cgi_module /opt/freeware/lib/httpd/modules/mod_cgi.so
</IfModule>
    Place there LPAR2RRD cfg (it supposes that install home will be in /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd):
    AddHandler cgi-script .sh

#
# LPAR2RRD
#
Alias /lpar2rrd  "/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/www/"
<Directory "/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/www/">
    AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    Require all granted
</Directory>
# CGI-BIN
ScriptAlias /lpar2rrd-cgi/ "/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd-cgi/"
<Directory "/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd-cgi">
    AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
    SetHandler cgi-script
    Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
    Require all granted
</Directory>
    Apache restart:
    /opt/freeware/sbin/apachectl restart
  • Create LPAR2RRD user under root: 
    useradd -c "LPAR2RRD user" -m lpar2rrd
chmod 755 /home/lpar2rrd
chdev -l sys0 -a maxuproc=2000
chuser  nofiles=32768 data=-1  stack=-1 rss=-1 lpar2rrd
chuser  data=-1  stack=-1 rss=-1 apache
  • Install LPAR2RRD server: 
    # su - lpar2rrd
tar xvf lpar2rrd-7.XX.tar
cd lpar2rrd-7.XX
./install.sh
  • You do not need to install modules like perl-XML etc, all necessary is already in perl.rte fileset, just this is needed: 
    # rpm -qa| grep perl
  perl-5.34.3-1.ppc		
  rrdtool-perl-1.7.0-8.ppc
  perl-Crypt-SSLeay-0.57-2.ppc
  perl-DBD-Pg-3.7-4.ppc 		--> needed for XorMon only
  perl-DBD-SQLite-1.62-0.ppc 		--> needed for XorMon only
  net-snmp-perl-5.8-2.ppc		--> for SNMP Trap alerting only
  • Make sure all Perl modules are in place
    cd /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd
. etc/lpar2rrd.cfg; $PERL bin/perl_modules_check.pl
    If any problem then adjust following variables in etc/lpar2rd.cfg
    Especially PERL must be set to /usr/bin/perl
    If it cannot find RRDp.pm then search it and place its path at the end of PERL5LIB 
    # find /opt -name RRDp.pm 2>/dev/null
  /opt/freeware/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl/RRDp.pm
  /opt/freeware/lib64/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl/RRDp.pm

    # file /opt/freeware/bin/rrdtool
  /opt/freeware/bin/rrdtool: 64-bit XCOFF executable or object module
# file /opt/freeware/bin/rrdtool_32
  /opt/freeware/bin/rrdtool_32: executable (RISC System/6000) or object module
    This is how should look like some parameters in etc/lpar2rrd.cfg, adjust PERL5LIB if RRDp.pm is in different location
    • 32bit (it must be used when you migrated from older RRDTool 1.4x): 
        PERL=/usr/bin/perl
  PERL5LIB=/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/bin:/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/vmware-lib:/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/lib:/opt/freeware/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl:/opt/freeware/lib64/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl
  RRDTOOL=/opt/freeware/bin/rrdtool_32
    • 64bit: 
        PERL=/usr/bin/perl
  PERL5LIB=/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/bin:/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/vmware-lib:/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/lib:/opt/freeware/lib64/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl:/opt/freeware/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl
  RRDTOOL=/opt/freeware/bin/rrdtool
      Adjust above PERL5LIB path based on which Perl you have in /opt/freeware/bin/perl, above example is for "5.34", you see it in the paths: 
      # /opt/freeware/bin/perl -v| head -2

This is perl 5, version 34, subversion 1 (v5.34.1) built for ppc-aix-thread-multi-64all
  • Enable web authorisation 
    # su - lpar2rrd
umask 022
cd /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd
cp -p html/.htaccess www
cp -p html/.htaccess lpar2rrd-cgi
  • Go to Web UI, use admin/admin account, go to product configuration (settings icon), add HMCs, vCenters ... 
    http://<your server IP/hostname>/lpar2rrd/
Upgrade from older Perzl RPM distribution (Apache 2.4.18-1, rrdtool 1.4.8 usualy) follow this

Troubleshooting

  • In some cases is necessary to set LIBPATH, do not do it unless you see such error during load.sh 
    Can't load '/usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.28.1/aix-thread-multi/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so' for module XML::Parser::Expat: Could not load module /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.28.1/aix-thread-multi/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so
    In this case: 
    cd /home/lpar2rd/lpar2rrd
umask 022
echo "export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib" >> etc/.magic
  • RRDTOOL 1.7.2 problem (only 32bit one) 
    /opt/freeware/bin/rrdtool_32 -v
  exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program /opt/freeware/bin/rrdtool_32 because of the following errors:
  0509-130 Symbol resolution failed for /opt/freeware/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.a(libpangocairo-1.0.so.0) because:
  0509-136 Symbol __dbargs (number 185) is not exported from
  dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libpixman-1.a(libpixman-1.so.0).
  0509-136 Symbol __dbsubc (number 186) is not exported from
  dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libpixman-1.a(libpixman-1.so.0).
  0509-136 Symbol __dbsubg (number 187) is not exported from
  dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libpixman-1.a(libpixman-1.so.0).
  0509-136 Symbol __dbsubn (number 188) is not exported from
  dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libpixman-1.a(libpixman-1.so.0).
  0509-192 Examine .loader section symbols with the
  'dump -Tv' command.
    Fix it by removing "pixman" package, ignore dependencies 
    yum erase pixman