opReports Installation

Installation Prerequisites

• The individual performing this installation has some Linux experience.
• NMIS8 is installed on the same server where opReports will be installed
• NMIS8 is installed in /usr/local/nmis8
• OpReports will be installed into /usr/local/opmantek
• Root access is available (not always needed but much easier)

Installation Steps

• Copy the opReports tarball to the server (a tarball is a GZIP'd tar file, e.g. opReports-2012-05-09-1315.tar.gz)
  1. You may need to use SCP or FTP to get the file onto the server.
• The file will now likely be in the users home directory.
• If the installation directory does not already exist
• Change into the directory where the tarball was copied
• Untar the file

unalias cp
cd /usr/local
tar xvf ~/opReports-<version>.tar.gz
cd opmantek/
cp /usr/local/opmantek/bin/opupdateconfig.pl /usr/local/opmantek/install/opReports.nmis /usr/local/opmantek/conf/opReports.nmis

• Update the crontab to run the default reports every day for the last 1 day and every week for the last week.  Below is the crontab entries required.
• To edit the crontab, use the command "crontab -e"

######################################################
# Opmantek Config
######################################################
# Run opReports Batch 
0 0 * * * /usr/local/opmantek/bin/opReports-daily.sh
0 0 * * Sun /usr/local/opmantek/bin/opReports-weekly.sh

Patching opReports

Often patches will be released for opReports, the following are commands to install a patch, unless other instructions are specifically provided.

unalias cp
cd ~
tar xvf ~/opReports-<version>.tar.gz
cd opmantek/
cp -r * /usr/local/opmantek/
/usr/local/opmantek/bin/opupdateconfig.pl /usr/local/opmantek/install/opReports.nmis /usr/local/opmantek/conf/opReports.nmis