Minimal Hardware Requirements:
- Small Deployments (1 to 250 Monitored Devices)
- 4GB RAM
- 2 CPU Cores
- 1x 300GB, 10K RPM Drive
- Medium Deployments (250 to 500 Monitored Devices)
- 8GB RAM
- 4 CPU Cores
- 1x 300GB, 10K RPM Drive
- Large Deployments (500 to 1000 Monitored Devices)
- 16GB – 32GB RAM
- 8 CPU Cores
- 1x 300GB, 15K RPM Drive
Let’s Install Zenoss Monitoring Server on CentOS 6!
1. Disable SELinux and IPtables
For this guide SELinux and IPtables were completely disabled and CentOS 6 was up-to-date!
2. Add DNS FQDN Entry and NTP Sync
To ensure proper resolving FQDN entries in DNS or /etc/hosts must exist and please configure NTP time synchronization for services to run properly.
3. Install Following Packages
Install the following packages to make your life a bit easier – especially if you are on CentOS 6 minimal install.
[root@centos1 ~]# yum install openssh-clients wget vim-enhanced
4. Install Zenoss Dependencies Repository
This RPM installs Zenoss Dependency Repository. It will help us resolve all of the dependencies required to install and run Zenoss.
[root@centos1 ~]# rpm -ivh http://deps.zenoss.com/yum/zenossdeps-4.2.x-1.el6.noarch.rpm