Hi All,
It was a pain to install Core 4 manually but I had to due to the network security my zenoss server lived in. I wanted to share my experience for others in case they run into this problem. My company replicates many yum repos in house, so most of the more typical dependencies, i was able to install via yum. My network security team setup some proxy settings so I could reach rpmforge and epel repo but they did not always seem to work. I ended up having to download most of the rpms and scp them to my zenoss server to install. When I ran into issues with the install guide, I would look at the autodeploy script. I think the install guide could include some more info. Zenoss was installed on Centos 6.2 x86_64
The rules for the proxy included
(.*.)?redhat.com:443
http://(.*.)?fedorapeople.org/.*
http://(.*.)?fedoraproject.org/.*
RPMs
jre-7u17-linux-x64.rpm
MySQL-client-5.5.28-1.linux2.6.x86_64.rpm
MySQL-shared-5.5.28-1.linux2.6.x86_64.rpm
MySQL-server.x86_64 0:5.5.28-1.linux2.6.rpm
MySQL-shared-compat.x86_64 0:5.5.28-1.linux2.6
nagios-common-3.2.3-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
nagios-plugins-1.4.15-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nagios-plugins-dig-1.4.15-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nagios-plugins-dns-1.4.15-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nagios-plugins-http-1.4.15-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nagios-plugins-ircd-1.4.15-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nagios-plugins-ldap-1.4.15-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nagios-plugins-ntp-1.4.15-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nagios-plugins-perl-1.4.15-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nagios-plugins-ping-1.4.15-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nagios-plugins-rpc-1.4.15-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
nagios-plugins-tcp-1.4.15-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
perl-rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm
rabbitmq-server-3.0.4-1.noarch.rpm
rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm
zenoss_core-4.2.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
Configure yum to use a proxy: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/sn-yum-proxy-server.html
service iptables stop
chkconfig iptables off
service ip6tables stop
chkconfig ip6tables off
rpm -ivh jre-7u17-linux-x64.rpm
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/default/bin
java -version
**I could not reach the rpmforge repo from my zenoss server but I had most of the dependancies local, so I only need to download two rpm, including RRDtool itself**
yum install gettext libdbi-drivers.x86_64 libdbi-devel.x86_64 perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64 ruby xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.noarch
yum -y --nogpgcheck localinstall rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm perl-rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm
**The install guide only says to download the MySQL client, per the autoscript you need more MySQL packages then that**
yum -y --nogpgcheck localinstall MySQL*.rpm
service mysql start
chkconfig --add mysql
chkconfig --level 2345 mysql on
mysqladmin -u root password ''
mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password ''
wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A 'epel*.rpm' http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/
yum -y --nogpgcheck localinstall dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-*.rpm
edit /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo change epel stanza enabled value to = 0
**If you cannot reach the EPEL repo here, you are going to have to install some more dependencies manually, including erlang**
yum --enablerepo=epel -y --nogpgcheck localinstall rabbitmq-server-3.0.4-1.noarch.rpm
**There is no mention of this in the install guide, but if you do not do these configuration steps, rabbitmq will not start**
edit /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf
add "NODENAME=<hostname>" do not need domain
chmod go+r etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf
edit /etc/hosts and add hostname to the end of line with 127.0.0.1
service rabbitmq-server start
chkconfig rabbitmq-server on
yum -y install memcached net-snmp net-snmp-utils
service memcached start
chkconfig memcached on
service snmpd start
chkconfig snmpd on
yum localinstall nagios*
**Make sure there are no hosts.allow or hosts.deny files** Rename them if they exist
yum localinstall zenoss_core-4.2.3.el6.x86_64.rpm liberation-fonts-common.noarch
service zenoss start
Please feel free to comment, add to this post, tell me I am wrong. Thanks! 