Specifications

Installing on RHEL or CentOS

Follow these steps to download, install, and configure MySQL Community Server:

1. Download the following Red Hat/Oracle Enterprise Linux (x86, 64-bit) RPM Packages from mysql.com/:

• Client Utilities

• MySQL Server

• Shared components

2. Install the packages with the command:

yum -y --nogpgcheck localinstall MySQL*

Important! When MySQL installation completes, it displays a message similar to "PLEASE REMEMBER TO

SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER !" followed by directions to perform this task.

Do not set the MySQL root user password at this point in the installation process. You must install Zenoss Core

before performing this task.

3. Create a file named /etc/my.cnf file, and then add the following lines:

[mysqld]

max_allowed_packet=16M

innodb_buffer_pool_size=256M

innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=20M

4. Run these commands to start the mysql daemon and to configure it to start automatically on reboot:

service mysql start

chkconfig --add mysql

chkconfig --level 2345 mysql on

5. Configure MySQL for Zenoss Core installation. Do not add a space between the single quotes in the following

commands:

mysqladmin -u root password ''

mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password ''

2.10. Install Zenoss Core

Follow these steps to install Zenoss Core. Run all commands as root.

2.10.1. Download the Installation File

Download the Zenoss Core installation file from this location:

http://community.zenoss.org/community/download

2.10.2. Install the RPM

1. Install the RPM file:

RHEL/CentOS 5: yum -y --nogpgcheck localinstall zenoss_core-version.el5.x86_64.rpm

RHEL/CentOS 6: yum -y --nogpgcheck localinstall zenoss_core-version.el6.x86_64.rpm

2. Configure required services to start when the host starts, and start the services:

for svc in memcached rabbitmq-server snmpd; do chkconfig $svc on; service $svc start; done