Posts Tagged ‘pandorafms’

PandoraFMS is an open-source systems and network monitoring tool created by some Spanish folks with typos on their website. Sounds great! So why do I hate it? Because I can’t install it. Let’s go through my hoops.

1) Their newest 2.1 virtual image for VMware doesn’t work with VMware ESX 3.5. It doesn’t recognize it so it is worthless.
2) Their Perl CPAN requirements cannot be met with Fedora 10. Fedora10, which plain out sucks already for me, couldn’t even use CPAN. Some weird errors. Fedora 10 fails again!
3) I switched to ubuntu 8.10 x64. Everything goes well until I try to install the CPAN Net::Traceroute::PurePerl. Again, some more obscure errors pointing me to some stupid stats site.
So what the hell does the below mean? I have no idea. Good luck.
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cpan[1]> reports AHOYING/Net-Traceroute-PurePerl-0.10.tar.gz
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:29:03 GMT
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.68)
Going to read 33 yaml files from /root/.cpan/build/
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719)
………………………………………………………………….DONERestored the state of 33 (in 0.2969 secs)
Distribution: A/AH/AHOYING/Net-Traceroute-PurePerl-0.10.tar.gz
CPAN: CPAN::DistnameInfo loaded ok (v0.07)
CPAN: LWP loaded ok (v5.812)
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.21)
Fetching ‘http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Net-Traceroute-PurePerl.yaml’…DONE

0.10:
+PASS 5.8.8 on Linux 2.6.16.14 (x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld)
+PASS 5.9.5 on Darwin 8.10.1 (darwin-2level)
+PASS 5.8.8 on Openbsd 3.5 (OpenBSD.i386-openbsd)
+PASS 5.6.2 on Linux 2.4.27-3-686 (i686-linux)
+PASS 5.9.5 on Netbsd 2.1.0_stable (alpha-netbsd)
+PASS 5.9.5 on Solaris 2.9 (sun4-solaris)
+PASS 5.8.6 on Freebsd 5.4-release (i386-freebsd-64int)
+PASS 5.8.8 on Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Linux 2.6.22.10 (x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld)
+PASS 5.11.0 patch 33684 on Darwin 8.10.0 (darwin-thread-multi-64int-2level)
UNKNOWN 5.8.8 patch 33662 on Freebsd 6.1-release-p23 (i386-freebsd)
UNKNOWN 5.8.1 on Darwin 7.9.0 (darwin-2level)
+PASS 5.10.0 patch 33921 on Darwin 8.10.0 (darwin-thread-multi-64int-2level)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 patch 34065 on Darwin 8.10.0 (darwin-thread-multi-64int-2level) UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Freebsd 6.1-release (i386-freebsd)
+PASS 5.6.2 on Freebsd 6.1-release (i386-freebsd)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Solaris 2.9 (sun4-solaris)
+PASS 5.10.0 on Freebsd 6.1-release (i386-freebsd-thread-multi)
+PASS 5.8.8 on Freebsd 6.1-release (i386-freebsd-thread-multi)
UNKNOWN 5.8.8 on Freebsd 6.1-release (i386-freebsd-64int)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Linux 2.6.24.3 (i686-linux)
+PASS 5.8.8 patch 34327 on Darwin 8.10.0 (darwin-thread-multi-64int-2level)
UNKNOWN 5.8.8 on Linux 2.6.24.3 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.11.0 patch 34383 on Linux 2.6.26.5 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Linux 2.6.26.5 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.8.8 on Linux 2.6.26.5 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.11.0 patch 34435 on Linux 2.6.26.5 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.8.9 on Freebsd 7.0-release (amd64-freebsd)
UNKNOWN 5.8.8 on Freebsd 7.0-release (amd64-freebsd)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64 (x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld)
+PASS 5.8.8 on Linux 2.6.18.3 (i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi)
+PASS 5.8.9 on Linux 2.6.21.5-smp (i686-linux-thread-multi-64int-ld)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld)
See http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Net-Traceroute-PurePerl.html for details
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So why would I even remotely think about purchasing PandoraFMS Enterprise if I can’t even get the open-source version working? Time to check out Zabbix