Getting ready

Red Hat-based systems will need to add the EPEL library. The most recent EPEL packages are available for several Red Hat-based distributions at the following URL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Look for the package file that begins with epel-release and download it to the monitoring server. Once the package is downloaded, install it with this command as a root-level user:

sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-*.rpm

Once epel has been installed, install the python-pip package and several necessary development libraries with this command:

sudo yum install python-pip python-devel cairo-devel libffi-  
devel

Debian-based systems should have an easier time due to the larger standard repositories. Execute this command to install equivalent ...

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