Now then, I suppose some of you must have had troubles with installing OMD unto your open source distros. I had installed this on RHEL 5.7 and on RHEL 6.3 and by comparison it worked better on RHEL 6.3 that it did on 5.7 because of some bug in the python lib in the former. I was told by check_mk techie that I had to downgrade the python on 5.7 to accommodate the back-dated libraries. Here's the link to view the bug, although the bug says its applicable to older 32-bit distro I had more or less the same python libraries errors showing up in my /var/log/httpd/error_log with 64-bit 5.7

First things first, the VM guy did a very basic RHEL installation for me (with gnome of course). By default I had SElinux policy Enforced (more on this later) and firewall turned on (here's the kicker I had totally overlooked)

So I did what it says on the installation page, I downloaded omd-0.54 for RHEL 6 from their download page



After configuring network connection and registering the server with RHN network (please use legacy registration method, other wise the server won't appear in your subscription list)

I did a simple # yum search ftp just to confirm that yum is working properly

Then I disabled the product ID and subscription manager from yum plugin configuration. If you have kathello config, you might want disable that too (it comes in RHEL 5.7 and older)


Based on two weeks of testing and my hunches confirmed by RHEL techies, both these configs hindered with my yum and it kept hanging on me when used with epel repo

Right then, lets move on to the EPEL repo. You can get the latest repo from here

I stored everything in my /tmp (makes it easy to remove all the installation files later once I am done) Install that epel repo you downloaded earlier


Epel repo installation on RHEL 6.3

Now, in RHEL 5.7, once you have epel installed, all you have to do is pretty much clean up your yum cache and reload yum. Then you can move on and install the omd


Your yum will work on looking for the dependencies and list them right away for installation. On my RHEL 5.7 I had about 31 dependencies installed prior to OMD installation. Once you have your OMD installed all you have to do is run the final steps on creating a user for OMD management and start the services


Your browser will request for the default username and password that comes with OMD installation which is usually omdadmin/omd


Make sure your httpd services will run persistently across reboots

You got to manually start apache the first time though, it doesn't start automatically after installation


Now, some tippers on installing OMD on RHEL 6.3. The epel repo for RHEL 6 doesn't come with graphviz yet, so you've got to go to their website here and do what I did, get their repo config and add that into your /etc/yum/repos.d/ folder. I was getting xml error when I ran "yum repolist" because the server wasn't able to read "https" (firewall again!) so two things you can do here. Either allow https thru your firewall or edit the graphviz-rhel.repo file and rename the "https" to "http"

Here's my repo lists, the ones in blue are what you need


Now, about that php-mbstring you will need to add an additional RHEL repo into your subscription list:


Check on the box circled in red and click on the "Change Subscriptions" button

Before you start going about yumming, I would recommend you to clear your yum cache and then run "yum repolist" command to view all the installed repos on your server


And you're ready to install OMD on RHEL 6.3. Mark my words folks, if you hadn't already added the optional RHEL, graphviz and epel repos, your installation WILL FAIL





Ok, now lets start your httpd daemon and set that to run persistently across reboots. Remember the tricky little thing I mentioned earlier about the firewall and SElinux? My SELinux policy was set to Enforcing (so try as I might I wasn't able to open the web browser for check_mk). I had overlooked this bit until i pored over the /var/log/messages and /var/log/httpd/erro_log. Sooooo then I changed that to permissive and made sure it stayed that way by editing /etc/selinux/config file too




The error messages indicating web page failed to load

If you are behind proxy server, make sure you enable HTTP and HTTPS port from your firewall




And now with all that done lets start OMD shall we? By default OMD doesn't star automatically. I also noticed that the omd for RHEL 6 doesn't ask for the omdadmin user name and password, it just opens the browser without password prompt. I guess they must have removed this feature but forgot to take it out of the installation result display







Good luck folks with installing OMD and check_mk. The config I have for my system may or may not not work for you, and if you have any queries just post them here I will try my best to answer you!

Note: Don't forget to remove the rpms from /tmp once you are done

10. Ferry Corsten - Whatever (Redd Square Remix)

Three of my favorites

But then again Mike also charges YOU to eat with him or have his team organize events for you. And for a cool million he will shut down his site for a day

I have to stop with this feet thing ha ha ha

There's a story behind this incomplete statues of deities...its a long one and I won't explain it here, you could wikipedia it though

The hare krsna man himself, whom discovered the sect

The bringing of Radha-Krsna deities inside the temple

Wait for it...

...a bit more...

...we're getting there...

And here we are!

Clearer shot, just look at the food laid out at the deities as offerings

I am so in love with these songs I had them cropped for my ringtones, this ought to last me for the next 3-4 months until I get bored. I have to admit *amidst very bruised ego that my erm boyfriend/fiancee's choice of songs are ahem erm better than an average person's. Click on the song below to download it from Picosong

I thought I was losing my marbles when I saw these signs all over the place during my trip to Malacca recently. I had alot of questions in my mind back then and finally saw some light to this in the daily this morning

Expressing anger and frustration with Maybank

I had the steamed momo

Chili momo

Hot sauce and chilli dippings

Street food, tea and some fried stuff

Hmmm...I'm getting unwanted hits from Penang and Malacca and this can only mean one thing, Brocade you are utterly fucked. If they can't find you in FB these 'hos will find you in blogger

Waiting patiently at BKK for transit

Rewarding myself with a whiskey and coke

Pashupathinath temple, the oldest Siva temple in existence

Alot of legends associated with this temple and no cams were allowed inside

Monkey temple

Buddhist temple

Lucky enough to witness, albeit from much farness the inauguration of a live Goddess Kumari

Killer crowd, notice the crowd perched at the temple dome bottom

My feet again, this time 4000ft above sea level

Aptly named Everest beer, facing of course Everest

Winding road and vast mountains leading up to Nagarkot

Sunrise at Nagarkot, great view of the Himalayas

Medieval castle transformed into hotel

Atop a temple in Kathmandu

Gauri Shankar and two other mountains, this mountain is off limits to climbers

And what you waited for, right from the pilot's cockpits. the great Mt Everest (on the left)

Thamel after afternoon rainpour

The spinning soundless bells are heavy, it has the Buddhist "Om mane Padme Om" chants repeatedly written a million times in a continuous roll of paper so every time you spin a wheel you just chanted a million chants

Precariously dangling my cam to get the winding road shot drive up to the mountains

Goodbye Nepal~