AIX

• Preferably use any Linux for hosting the tool (it is all much easier), if you have no such option then use AIX.
  
  
• 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
  

• If you have already running STOR2RRD on the same host then skip to Web tab.
  
  
• Install Apache and RRDTool
  

  yum install httpd rrdtool rrdtool-perl 
  

• Complete LPAR2RRD installation on via yum/dnf in a single docu
  
  
• Manual installation of older version prerequisite RRDTool 1.4.8, they are quite old, do not use it unless you have any particular reason for that
  
  
• If you already use older rpm packages not Linux Tool based and you want to upgrade to the latest in AIX Linux Tool Box then follow this
  

Red Hat, CentOS, Rocky Linux ...

• create lpar2rrd user under root:

  useradd -c "LPAR2RRD user" -m lpar2rrd
  chmod 755 /home/lpar2rrd
  

• Increase user limits by editing /etc/security/limits.conf

  lpar2rrd        hard    stack           -1
  lpar2rrd        soft    stack           -1
  lpar2rrd        hard    data            -1
  lpar2rrd        soft    data            -1
  lpar2rrd        hard    nofile          32768
  lpar2rrd        soft    nofile          32768
  lpar2rrd        hard    nproc           5000
  lpar2rrd        soft    nproc           5000
  
  apache          hard    stack           -1
  apache          soft    stack           -1
  apache          hard    data            -1
  apache          soft    data            -1
  

• If you have already running STOR2RRD on the same host then skip to Web tab.
  
  
• Per platform:
  • RHEL 8: enable the codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-*-rpms repository

    ARCH=$( /bin/arch )
    subscription-manager repos --enable "codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-${ARCH}-rpms"
    

  • CentOS 8: enable the PowerTools repository

    yum config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools
    or
    dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools
    

    You can also just open /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Linux-PowerTools.repo with a text editor and set enabled= to 1 instead of 0
    
    
  • RHEL 9: enable config-manager and the PowerTools repository

    dnf install 'dnf-command(config-manager)'
    

    Based on your operating system enable one of following (crb was renamed to codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms)

    dnf config-manager --enable crb
    or
    dnf config-manager --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms
    

• Install prerequsites:

  yum install perl rrdtool rrdtool-perl httpd mod_ssl
  yum install epel-release
  yum install perl-TimeDate perl-HTTP-Date perl-Env perl-CGI perl-Data-Dumper perl-LWP-Protocol-https perl-libwww-perl perl-Time-HiRes perl-IO-Tty
  yum install perl-JSON-XS perl-XML-Simple perl-XML-NamespaceSupport perl-URI perl-XML-SAX-Base perl-XML-SAX perl-XML-LibXML
  yum install perl-Net-INET6Glue # it might not exist everywhere like RedHat 9.x, then ignore it
  yum install ed bc libxml2 sharutils
  

• RHEL 6.x and olders:
  Note that rrdtool-perl and epel-release (this is necessary only for PDF reporting) might not be in your RedHat base repository especially for RHEL 6.x and olders.
  Install CentOS package instead rrdtool-perl-1.4.8-9.el7.x86_64.rpm and epel-release-7-11.noarch.rpm
  
  

Debian, Ubuntu ...

• create lpar2rrd user under root:

  useradd -c "LPAR2RRD user" -m lpar2rrd
  chmod 755 /home/lpar2rrd
  

• Increase user limits by editing /etc/security/limits.conf

  lpar2rrd        hard    stack           -1
  lpar2rrd        soft    stack           -1
  lpar2rrd        hard    data            -1
  lpar2rrd        soft    data            -1
  lpar2rrd        hard    nofile          32768
  lpar2rrd        soft    nofile          32768
  lpar2rrd        hard    nproc           5000
  lpar2rrd        soft    nproc           5000
  
  apache          hard    stack           -1
  apache          soft    stack           -1
  apache          hard    data            -1
  apache          soft    data            -1
  

• If you have already running STOR2RRD on the same host then skip to Web tab.
  
  
• Install prerequsites:

  umask 0022
  apt-get install apache2 perl rrdtool ed bc
  apt-get install librrdp-perl libxml-sax-perl libxml-simple-perl libtimedate-perl libenv-sanctify-perl libcgi-pm-perl libdata-dumper-simple-perl libpdf-api2-perl libxml2-utils
  apt-get install liblwp-protocol-https-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libmozilla-ldap-perl libxml-parser-perl libjson-xs-perl
  apt-get install libnet-inet6glue-perl
  

SuSE

• create lpar2rrd user under root:

  useradd -c "LPAR2RRD user" -m lpar2rrd
  chmod 755 /home/lpar2rrd
  

• Increase user limits by editing /etc/security/limits.conf

  lpar2rrd        hard    stack           -1
  lpar2rrd        soft    stack           -1
  lpar2rrd        hard    data            -1
  lpar2rrd        soft    data            -1
  lpar2rrd        hard    nofile          32768
  lpar2rrd        soft    nofile          32768
  lpar2rrd        hard    nproc           5000
  lpar2rrd        soft    nproc           5000
  
  apache          hard    stack           -1
  apache          soft    stack           -1
  apache          hard    data            -1
  apache          soft    data            -1
  

• If you have already running STOR2RRD on the same host then skip to Web tab.
  
  
• Install prerequsites:

  zypper install rrdtool perl-rrdtool apache2
  zypper install perl-TimeDate perl-XML-Simple perl-XML-SAX perl-XML-LibXML perl-CGI perl-LWP-Protocol-https perl-libwww-perl perl-IO-Tty
  zypper install perl-PDF-API2 perl-JSON-XS
  zypper install ed bc libxml2-2 sharutils
  

Solaris

• create lpar2rrd user under root:

  useradd -c "LPAR2RRD user" -m lpar2rrd
  chmod 755 /home/lpar2rrd
  

• If you have already running STOR2RRD on the same host then skip to Web tab.
  
  
• Install prerequsites:

  /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i pm_xml_simple pm_libxml_perl pm_xml_sax rrdtool
  

Troubleshooting