Zabcon is now easier to install!

[nelsonab]

Zabcon just got easier to install. Just be sure you have ruby gems installed and issue the following command (you may need to be root)

gem install zabcon

This should then install Zabcon into your path (zabcon.rb) and install all of the requisite dependencies.

The same is also true for the api library used by zabcon (zbxapi). This is also available as a ruby gem.

gem install zbxapi

If you have issues please let me know.

[sbockelman]

zabcon.rb install location

I ran the install commands, but I am unable to locate the zabcon.rb executable. Where should it be located? I installed it using ubuntu 10.10.

[nelsonab]

Interesting... on my test/dev system (Fedora) it installed it in /usr/bin, which was also in my path.

If you have locate installed update the database first "updatedb" then "locate zabcon.rb". The first command needs to be done as root.

Also on my system everything was installed into /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/zabcon-0.0.1

This includes the default zabcon.conf file. Right now Zabcon will only look for the conf file in the current directory of where the program was run. I hope to have that fixed to where it will look in some common locations.

Hopefully that helps

[zabbix_zen]

Just for newbies reference,

use your distro package manager to install the necessary packages,

Eg. for Fedora,
yum install ruby ruby-devel rubygems ruby-irb ruby-rdoc ruby-libs

Now you just have to use the commands Nelson's explained.

[zabbix_zen]

Nelson could you help me?

Though the Fedora install went flawless I've bumped into weird thing installing it in RHEL5.

First things first, as zabcon requires ruby-1.8.6 and RHEL5 stock repos have ruby-1.8.5 I've had to download CentOS rpms:

1)
ruby-1.8.6.383-6.el5.kb
ruby-devel-1.8.6.383-6.el5.kb
ruby-rdoc-1.8.6.383-6.el5.kb
ruby-libs-1.8.6.383-6.el5.kb
ruby-irb-1.8.6.383-6.el5.kb

2) Installed rubygems-1.4.2

3) Successfuly installed the following gems:
json-1.1.9.gem
parseconfig-0.5.2.gem
highline-1.5.2.gem
zabbixapi-0.1.3.gem

4) zabcon gem installation fails....

gem install --local zabcon-0.0.5.gem
ERROR: Error installing zabcon-0.0.5.gem:
zabcon requires zbxapi (>= 0.1, runtime)


Why isn't it recognizing zbxapi ?
(Actually why does it test for zbxapi since you changed the name to zabbixapi as per RubyForge rules?)

[nelsonab]

You have zabbixapi installed not zbxapi... Similar names, different gems... :-(

[zabbix_zen]

Right

Not used to Ruby stuff.
gem default behavior to download from the repo forced me to scour the internet in a gem quest,
later I've installed them locally (to avoid proxy configuration)

Working now !

[nelsonab]

I should have thought ahead and given you this link:

https://rubygems.org/profiles/nelsonab

But I figured "gem install zbxapi" would have worked.

I think I should give zabcon some love over the next week or two. Clean up the gem and maybe rewrite the api gem like I've been thinking about lately.

[zabbix_zen]

It would have, and it did on my personal Fedora.

I've got this wrong because I've tried to avoid the proxy config on gem (didn't know how to do it)

Unsure if I should have opened a different Thread but..

After logging in to zabbix server via zabcon,
I receive a couple of lines and it always ends like this,

Pause, q to quit, a to stop pausing output/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/highline-1.5.2/lib/highline/system_extensions.rb:186:in `get_character': undefined method `getbyte' for #<IO:0x2b4dd5a0fef8> (NoMethodError)

Any idea why ?

[nelsonab]

Hmmm... I can't say I know what the issue in with the highline library... Can you reproduce it consistently?

[untergeek]

$ zabcon.rb 
x86_64-linux
Checking dependencies
Found valid login credentials, attempting login
Segmentation fault

Any ideas here?