1. How To Install Libgcc-3.4.6-sol9-sparc-locals

• Description of installation on SunOS 5.9 (Solaris 9) on 64bit sparc system.
• Solaris 10 user can use the pre-installed Postgres database. (see [1])

• 1Prerequisites
• 4Running as a non-root user

Verify that JRE 1.7 is installed on the Linux client. Sparc: libgcc-3.4.6-sol9-sparc-local.gz; Sparc iconvlibrary: libiconv-1.11-sol9-sparc-local.gz; Opteron:. Create Account. Forgot password.

Prerequisites

general utilities

• tested with gcc 3.4.6 installed in /usr/local
• check your PATH - variable to contain

• CAUTION: To avoid confusion with library paths etc. try to get the newest versions of all needed tools from http://www.sunfreeware.com. Almost all newer tools will install to /usr/local. Almost all problems described below were due to the mix of older and newer tools/librarys and vanished after updating those tools. If you already have older versions of the tools installed they may have been installed to different paths:

• check carefully messages from .configure to see if you included the appropriate paths and library paths! If some libraries are 'elsewhere' you might try

• download and unzip following tools from sun freeware:

• install them with the following command for all downloaded files

jicmp

• download sources according to description in Jicmpto your installation-directory
• cd to your installation-directory
• run

• Libraries will be installed in /usr/local/lib
• Program will be installed as /usr/local/share/java/jicmp.jar

• if you get following error during make

try

• if you get errors during make like

try

rrd

• download rrd (and any required prerequisites) from http://www.sunfreeware.com to your installation-directory
• cd to your installation-directory
• REMARK: the compiled package didn't work for this configuration so rrd source code was installed, see below.
• Installation of compiled package:

• run

• example: rrdtool-1.2.19-sol9-sparc-local.gz will install to /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19

• this package didn't work together with jrrd, following error was generated when running configure for jrrd:

Installation from source code:

• download rrd source code(and any required prerequisites) from http://www.sunfreeware.com to your installation-directory
• cd to your installation-directory
• look where other prerequisited open source tools (like libfreetype) are installed in your system and change the path in the example below, here /usr/sfw was used
• run

• if the make - job stops working with

as last lines in output press CTRL-D (the job obviously tries to read from command line). cgi-demo will be empty...

• example: rrdtool-1.2.19-sol9-sparc-local.gz will install to /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19

jRRD

• download jrrd-1.0.1.tar.gz from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4141 to your installation-directory
• cd to your installation-directory
• replace the path to the rrdtool in the example below with the path to your rrdtool installation
• replace the path to the java-jdk in the example below with the path to your java installation
• run

• Libraries will be installed in /usr/local/lib
• Program will be installed as /usr/local/share/java/jrrd.jar

PostgrSQL

• read Performance_tuning#PostgreSQL_8.1before installation so you can design your configuration
• download postgres packages from http://www.sunfreeware.com to your installation-directory. Postgres postgresql-8.3.0-sol9-sparc-local.gz is used in this example.

• cd to your installation-directory
• run

• postgres should now be installed in /usr/local/pgsql
• create start script /etc/init.d/postgres for start/stop of database
• create link Snnpostgresql in /etc/rc3.d
• make data directory according to your design

• initialize a new DB (target directory has to be empty!)

• if you have problems starting postgres or any of it's tools with following error message:

then look for the path to this library libgcc_s.so.1 (comes with gcc compiler) and add the environment-variable (adjust the path to your needs)

• read /documentation/InstallUnStable for configuring security etc.. The configuration files mentioned there should be in your data directory /usr/local/pgsql/pgdata after initializing the database with initdb as described above.

iplike

• download iplike solaris package following the links for downloading opennms in Main_Pageto your installation-directory
• cd to your installation-directory
• run

• iplike should now be installed in /usr/local/lib

opennms

• download opennms[-snapshot]-version.zip to a temporarily directory.
• after download cd to this temporarily directory.
• run

• this will create a new directory 'opennms-installer'

login to your Solaris desktop environment or export your DISPLAY to a computer, this is needed because the installer now has a GUI.

• open a commandprompt/terminalwindow

• run

to start setup.(make sure you know your postgres passwords)

• follow the directives in the installer, install OpenNMS on a slice where you have and will have enough room. /opt/OpenNMS is prefered.

• now you should be able to start opennms

• (you can get great benefit from starting OpenNMS with LD_PRELOAD_64=libumem.so ./bin/opennms start

• If you installed OpenNMS as a Solaris package and are using svcadm to start and stop it you may run into a problem where it fails to start when you have a reasonable number of nodes in the database. This can be caused by it failing to completely start in within the default 5 minutes. To overcome this you will need to increase this value.

How To Install Libgcc-3.4.6-sol9-sparc-locals

Performance tips

• Start OpenNMS with the following command: LD_PRELOAD_64=libumem.so ./bin/opennms start, this will preload the 64 bit environment.

• if you installed OpenNMS on a slice like /opt you can have great benefits from altering the read/write buffering on this slice. Open /etc/vfstab and modify the slice accordingly: [example]

/dev/dsk/c1d0s5 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s5 /opt ufs 2 yes noatime,forcedirectio.

The settings noatime and forcedirectio will reduce the waitingtime for rrd to write his files. In my case the diskusage dropped from a steady 100% to 10% after setting these options on /opt and rebooting the system.

Running as a non-root user

On Solaris 10, it's possible to run OpenNMS as a non-root user, but it will be necessary to grant a couple of special permissions to the OpenNMS user:

Binding to udp/162 for Trapd

The permission needed for the OpenNMS trap receiver (Trapd) to bind to the standard snmp-trap port of udp/162 is:

If this permission is missing, OpenNMS will fail to start up and you will get an exception trace like the following in output.log:

Creating ICMP datagrams

OpenNMS normally does quite a bit of pinging, which requires another privilege on Solaris 10 in order to create raw ICMP datagrams:

Without this privilege, OpenNMS may start up but it will be unable to perform any ping operations.