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briandiamond
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5 months ago

RHEL 6

Has anyone successfully set up a collector and monitored RHEL6?

RHEL7 and above work without fail, but 6 does not have all the command sets. Other monitoring products can integrate with 6, but I dont see anything on our side.

Any help would be apreaciated.

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  • I haven't tried a collector on RHEL6 (have very few Linux collectors anyway), but can you monitoring that server from a RHEL7 or other server instead?

  • While RHEL 6 isn't end of life to Red Hat, it has been for most people for awhile now. With the move to non root and using user space systemd, I imagine that is the issue with the collector. Try installing the oldest one you can from the version drop down.

    Also note, your time maybe better spent on migrating away from RHEL as it is end of life in 3 months.

  • Hi Brian,
    Are you trying to install a collector on RHEL6 or monitor a RHEL6 server, or both maybe?

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      briandiamond
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      Trying to monitor, I’m told I don’t have access to old agents to deploy on this platform 

      • Joe_Williams's avatar
        Joe_Williams
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        If you are simply trying to monitor the server, vs installing a collector on it, I would suggest looking into SNMP monitoring. That standard won't change as much if at all compared to SSH based monitoring for Linux.