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Morten Brekkevold

16 Sep 2008 16 Sep '08

14:34

NAV 3.4.3 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.4/3.4.3

This is a bugfix release, the changelog is attached to this message.

Binary packages for Debian will be available soon. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT.

For those upgrading their existing NAV installation, please see the added section about upgrading to 3.4.3 in the attached release notes. The SQL upgrade script provided with 3.4.2 contained a bug which prevented the SQL changes from taking place, and the updated upgrade script must be run.

Happy NAVing everyone!

-- mvh Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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Morten Werner Forsbring

17 Sep 17 Sep

12:01

Morten Brekkevold morten.brekkevold@uninett.no writes:

...

NAV 3.4.3 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.4/3.4.3

This is a bugfix release, the changelog is attached to this message.

Binary packages for Debian will be available soon. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT.

The new package is now present in the archive. Enjoy! :)

- Werner

Rikard Stemland Skjelsvik

13:39

Just for your information!

Tried to install NAV on a clean system and with the apt-get install nav-deps i get the following message in the end:

Failed to fetch http://pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org/debian/pool/etch/n/nav-deps/nav-deps_2+3.3.... Size mismatch E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

-- Rikard

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Morten Werner Forsbring wrote:

...

Morten Brekkevold morten.brekkevold@uninett.no writes:

...
NAV 3.4.3 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.4/3.4.3

This is a bugfix release, the changelog is attached to this message.

Binary packages for Debian will be available soon. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT.

The new package is now present in the archive. Enjoy! :)

Werner

Rikard Stemland Skjelsvik

16:43

New subject: Amaturish installation document for Debian with apt-get

Be warned that this is NOT a official documentation.

This document contains information from both the "Debian README for NAV" and the following document on MetaNAV: http://metanav.uninett.no/installing_from_source_on_debian

Well, it seems to me that i have NAV up and running on a clean debian installation, and for once, i tried to document the process. It could be things that I have missed, but i hope that this perhaps can make life easier for someone. This small document assumes that you are running Debian (etch) and intend to install NAV with the debian packages.

Thanks to all those wonderfull people behind NAV!

Install a clean Debian installation. I installed with minimum packages, just with openssh-server.

1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list:

Your Debian repository would probably be some other server What you need to add is contrib. and non-free to the end of the lines below #--------------------------------------------------------------------- deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

# This is for NAV deb http://pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org/debian/ etch local #----------------------------------------------------------------------

2. Install Java

# apt-get install sun-java5-jre # apt-get install sun-java5-jdk # apt-get install sun-java5-bin # probably not nessacary

I would like to add that i do have a problem with Java and vlanpot that hangs. Any comments would be most helpfull!

3. Install NAV

# apt-get install nav-deps --fix-missing # This is probably not necessary! # apt-get install nav

4. Edit /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/pg_hba.conf conf according to the "Debian README for NAV" local all postgres ident sameuser local all all md5 host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 md5 host all all ::1 ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff md5 host all all ::ffff:127.0.0.1/128 md5 host all all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 reject

5.Edit /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/postgresql.conf according to the "Debian README for NAV"

line 93: shared_buffers = 1000 # min 16or max_connections*2, 8KB each line 93: shared_buffers = 1024 # min 16or max_connections*2, 8KB each

uncomment line 104 and replace 20000 with 500000

line 104: #max_fsm_pages = 20000 # minmax_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each line 104: max_fsm_pages = 500000 # minmax_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each

uncomment line 105 and replace 1000 with 2000

line 105: # max_fsm_relations = 1000 # min 100, ~70bytes each line 105: max_fsm_relations = 2000 # min 100, ~70bytes each

uncomment line 144 and replace 8 with 128

line 144: #wal_buffers = 8 # min 4, 8KB each line 144: wal_buffers = 128 # min 4, 8KB each

uncomment line 403 and replace 64 with 512

line 403: #max_locks_per_transaction = 64 # min 10 line 403: max_locks_per_transaction = 512 # min 10

6. Restart PostgreSQL

# /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 restart

7. Apache

# vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-nav

#------------------------------------------------------------------ ServerName nav.example.com # Change this to reflect your site ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com # Change this to reflect your site

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html index.php index.cgi index.py AccessFileName .htaccess AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

DocumentRoot /var/www/nav

<Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory>

<Directory /var/www/nav"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>

LogLevel warn

<Location /> # Let NAV authorize all access to this location PythonHeaderParserHandler nav.web PythonDebug on </Location> #------------------------------------------------------------------

Run the following command in order to compete the apache configuration

# a2dissite default # a2ensite default-nav # #a2enmod php4 # a2enmod php5 # a2enmod mod_python # invoke-rc.d apache2 force-reload

8. Restart Apache

# apache2ctl restart

9. Tomcat

Uncomment the following line:

#CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -server" CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -server"

Uncomment the following line and change the value from yes to no

#TOMCAT5_SECURITY=yes TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no

Restart Tomcat:

# /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 restart

10. Cricket

Uncomment the following line in /etc/cron.d/cricket

*/5 * * * * cricket test -x /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees && /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees ALL

#*/5 * * * * cricket test -x /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees && /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees ALL

Copy the following:

# cp /usr/share/doc/nav/cricket/cricket/subtree-sets /etc/cricket/subtree-sets

Edit the /etc/cricket/cricket-conf.pl and set these variables:

$gConfigRoot = "/etc/cricket/config"; $gLogDir = "/var/log/cricket"; to $gConfigRoot = "/etc/nav/cricket-config"; $gLogDir = "/var/log/nav/cricket";

# Su to navcron $ cricket-compile $ /usr/lib/nav/makecricketconfig.pl

10. Syslog

Edit /etc/syslog.conf #-------------------------------------------------------------- # # Cisco # local6.* /var/lib/nav/log/cisco.log #--------------------------------------------------------------

You can test with the logger command # logger -p local6.notice -t CISCO test # cat /var/lib/nav/log/cisco.log Sep 17 15:33:57 hostname CISCO: test Make sure that sysklogd accepts foreign syslogmessages: # vi /etc/default/syslogkd Change value of SYSLOGD="" to SYSLOGD="-r" Restart syslogd # /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart

11. Configuring NAV to start

# vi /etc/init.d/nav

Change RUN_NAV = 0 to RUN_NAV = 1

Any comments are most welcome!

Happy Nav'ing!

Rikard

Fredrik Holmberg

18 Sep 18 Sep

08:56

New subject: Amaturish installation document for Debian with apt-get

Great contribution! This document should definitely be "wikified" and made public for all NAV users to read and edit when necessary.

- Fredrik

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 16:43, Rikard Stemland Skjelsvik rskjels@pogostick.net wrote:

...

Be warned that this is NOT a official documentation.

This document contains information from both the "Debian README for NAV" and the following document on MetaNAV: http://metanav.uninett.no/installing_from_source_on_debian

Well, it seems to me that i have NAV up and running on a clean debian installation, and for once, i tried to document the process. It could be things that I have missed, but i hope that this perhaps can make life easier for someone. This small document assumes that you are running Debian (etch) and intend to install NAV with the debian packages.

Thanks to all those wonderfull people behind NAV!

Install a clean Debian installation. I installed with minimum packages, just with openssh-server.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list:

Your Debian repository would probably be some other server What you need to add is contrib. and non-free to the end of the lines below #--------------------------------------------------------------------- deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

# This is for NAV deb http://pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org/debian/ etch local #----------------------------------------------------------------------
Install Java
# apt-get install sun-java5-jre
# apt-get install sun-java5-jdk
# apt-get install sun-java5-bin # probably not nessacary
I would like to add that i do have a problem with Java and vlanpot that hangs. Any comments would be most helpfull!
Install NAV
# apt-get install nav-deps --fix-missing      # This is probably not
necessary! # apt-get install nav

Edit /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/pg_hba.conf conf according to the "Debian

README for NAV" local all postgres ident sameuser local all all md5 host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 md5 host all all ::1 ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff md5 host all all ::ffff:127.0.0.1/128 md5 host all all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 reject

5.Edit /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/postgresql.conf according to the "Debian README for NAV"

line 93: shared_buffers = 1000 # min 16or max_connections*2, 8KB each line 93: shared_buffers = 1024 # min 16or max_connections*2, 8KB each

uncomment line 104 and replace 20000 with 500000

line 104: #max_fsm_pages = 20000 # minmax_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each line 104: max_fsm_pages = 500000 # minmax_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each

uncomment line 105 and replace 1000 with 2000

line 105: # max_fsm_relations = 1000 # min 100, ~70bytes each line 105: max_fsm_relations = 2000 # min 100, ~70bytes each

uncomment line 144 and replace 8 with 128

line 144: #wal_buffers = 8 # min 4, 8KB each line 144: wal_buffers = 128 # min 4, 8KB each

uncomment line 403 and replace 64 with 512

line 403: #max_locks_per_transaction = 64 # min 10 line 403: max_locks_per_transaction = 512 # min 10
Restart PostgreSQL
# /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 restart
Apache
# vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-nav
#------------------------------------------------------------------ ServerName nav.example.com # Change this to reflect your site ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com # Change this to reflect your site

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html index.php index.cgi index.py AccessFileName .htaccess AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

DocumentRoot /var/www/nav

<Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory>

<Directory /var/www/nav"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all

</Directory>

LogLevel warn

<Location /> # Let NAV authorize all access to this location PythonHeaderParserHandler nav.web PythonDebug on </Location> #------------------------------------------------------------------
Run the following command in order to compete the apache configuration

   # a2dissite default
   # a2ensite default-nav
   # #a2enmod php4
   # a2enmod php5
   # a2enmod mod_python
   # invoke-rc.d apache2 force-reload
Restart Apache
# apache2ctl restart
Tomcat

Uncomment the following line:

#CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -server" CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -server"

Uncomment the following line and change the value from yes to no

#TOMCAT5_SECURITY=yes TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no

Restart Tomcat:

# /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 restart

Cricket

Uncomment the following line in /etc/cron.d/cricket
*/5 * * * * cricket test -x /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees && /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees ALL

#*/5 * * * * cricket test -x /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees && /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees ALL
   Copy the following:

    # cp /usr/share/doc/nav/cricket/cricket/subtree-sets
      /etc/cricket/subtree-sets


  Edit the /etc/cricket/cricket-conf.pl and set these variables:

   $gConfigRoot = "/etc/cricket/config";
   $gLogDir = "/var/log/cricket";
  to
   $gConfigRoot = "/etc/nav/cricket-config";
   $gLogDir = "/var/log/nav/cricket";



   # Su to navcron
   $  cricket-compile
   $ /usr/lib/nav/makecricketconfig.pl
Syslog
Edit /etc/syslog.conf
#-------------------------------------------------------------- # # Cisco # local6.* /var/lib/nav/log/cisco.log #--------------------------------------------------------------
   You can test with the logger command
           # logger -p local6.notice -t CISCO test
           # cat  /var/lib/nav/log/cisco.log
           Sep 17 15:33:57 hostname CISCO: test
  Make sure that sysklogd accepts foreign syslogmessages:
           # vi /etc/default/syslogkd
           Change value of
                  SYSLOGD=""
           to
                  SYSLOGD="-r"
   Restart syslogd
           # /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart
Configuring NAV to start
 # vi /etc/init.d/nav

 Change RUN_NAV = 0 to RUN_NAV = 1
Any comments are most welcome!

Happy Nav'ing!

Rikard

Rikard Stemland Skjelsvik

09:29

New subject: Amaturish installation document for Debian with apt-get

Please do!

I should add that under syslog section, one has to give the /var/lib/nav/log/cisco.log the right permissions.

-- Rikard

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Fredrik Holmberg wrote:

...

Great contribution! This document should definitely be "wikified" and made public for all NAV users to read and edit when necessary.

Fredrik

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 16:43, Rikard Stemland Skjelsvik rskjels@pogostick.net wrote:

...
Be warned that this is NOT a official documentation.

This document contains information from both the "Debian README for NAV" and the following document on MetaNAV: http://metanav.uninett.no/installing_from_source_on_debian

Well, it seems to me that i have NAV up and running on a clean debian installation, and for once, i tried to document the process. It could be things that I have missed, but i hope that this perhaps can make life easier for someone. This small document assumes that you are running Debian (etch) and intend to install NAV with the debian packages.

Thanks to all those wonderfull people behind NAV!

Install a clean Debian installation. I installed with minimum packages, just with openssh-server.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list:

Your Debian repository would probably be some other server What you need to add is contrib. and non-free to the end of the lines below #--------------------------------------------------------------------- deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

# This is for NAV deb http://pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org/debian/ etch local #----------------------------------------------------------------------
Install Java
# apt-get install sun-java5-jre
# apt-get install sun-java5-jdk
# apt-get install sun-java5-bin # probably not nessacary
I would like to add that i do have a problem with Java and vlanpot that hangs. Any comments would be most helpfull!
Install NAV
# apt-get install nav-deps --fix-missing      # This is probably not
necessary! # apt-get install nav

Edit /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/pg_hba.conf conf according to the "Debian

README for NAV" local all postgres ident sameuser local all all md5 host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 md5 host all all ::1 ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff md5 host all all ::ffff:127.0.0.1/128 md5 host all all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 reject

5.Edit /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/postgresql.conf according to the "Debian README for NAV"

line 93: shared_buffers = 1000 # min 16or max_connections*2, 8KB each line 93: shared_buffers = 1024 # min 16or max_connections*2, 8KB each

uncomment line 104 and replace 20000 with 500000

line 104: #max_fsm_pages = 20000 # minmax_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each line 104: max_fsm_pages = 500000 # minmax_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each

uncomment line 105 and replace 1000 with 2000

line 105: # max_fsm_relations = 1000 # min 100, ~70bytes each line 105: max_fsm_relations = 2000 # min 100, ~70bytes each

uncomment line 144 and replace 8 with 128

line 144: #wal_buffers = 8 # min 4, 8KB each line 144: wal_buffers = 128 # min 4, 8KB each

uncomment line 403 and replace 64 with 512

line 403: #max_locks_per_transaction = 64 # min 10 line 403: max_locks_per_transaction = 512 # min 10
Restart PostgreSQL
# /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 restart
Apache
# vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-nav
#------------------------------------------------------------------ ServerName nav.example.com # Change this to reflect your site ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com # Change this to reflect your site

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html index.php index.cgi index.py AccessFileName .htaccess AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

DocumentRoot /var/www/nav

<Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory>

<Directory /var/www/nav"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all

</Directory>

LogLevel warn

<Location /> # Let NAV authorize all access to this location PythonHeaderParserHandler nav.web PythonDebug on </Location> #------------------------------------------------------------------
Run the following command in order to compete the apache configuration

   # a2dissite default
   # a2ensite default-nav
   # #a2enmod php4
   # a2enmod php5
   # a2enmod mod_python
   # invoke-rc.d apache2 force-reload
Restart Apache
# apache2ctl restart
Tomcat

Uncomment the following line:

#CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -server" CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -server"

Uncomment the following line and change the value from yes to no

#TOMCAT5_SECURITY=yes TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no

Restart Tomcat:

# /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 restart

Cricket

Uncomment the following line in /etc/cron.d/cricket
*/5 * * * * cricket test -x /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees && /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees ALL

#*/5 * * * * cricket test -x /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees && /usr/share/cricket/collect-subtrees ALL
   Copy the following:

    # cp /usr/share/doc/nav/cricket/cricket/subtree-sets
      /etc/cricket/subtree-sets


  Edit the /etc/cricket/cricket-conf.pl and set these variables:

   $gConfigRoot = "/etc/cricket/config";
   $gLogDir = "/var/log/cricket";
  to
   $gConfigRoot = "/etc/nav/cricket-config";
   $gLogDir = "/var/log/nav/cricket";



   # Su to navcron
   $  cricket-compile
   $ /usr/lib/nav/makecricketconfig.pl
Syslog
Edit /etc/syslog.conf
#-------------------------------------------------------------- # # Cisco # local6.* /var/lib/nav/log/cisco.log #--------------------------------------------------------------
   You can test with the logger command
           # logger -p local6.notice -t CISCO test
           # cat  /var/lib/nav/log/cisco.log
           Sep 17 15:33:57 hostname CISCO: test
  Make sure that sysklogd accepts foreign syslogmessages:
           # vi /etc/default/syslogkd
           Change value of
                  SYSLOGD=""
           to
                  SYSLOGD="-r"
   Restart syslogd
           # /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart
Configuring NAV to start
 # vi /etc/init.d/nav

 Change RUN_NAV = 0 to RUN_NAV = 1
Any comments are most welcome!

Happy Nav'ing!

Rikard

Morten Brekkevold

8 Okt 8 Okt

15:58

New subject: Amaturish installation document for Debian with apt-get

Rikard Stemland Skjelsvik rskjels@pogostick.net wrote:

...

Well, it seems to me that i have NAV up and running on a clean debian installation, and for once, i tried to document the process. It could be things that I have missed, but i hope that this perhaps can make life easier for someone. This small document assumes that you are running Debian (etch) and intend to install NAV with the debian packages.

Thanks to all those wonderfull people behind NAV!

Thank you for your contribution!

As someone said, this is a useful candidate for wikification. Registering a wiki user takes only a minute, if not less.

I'd link to it from http://metanav.uninett.no/navinstallation if you would add it.

...

Install NAV

# apt-get install nav-deps --fix-missing # This is

probably not necessary!

It's not.

The nav-deps package is a dummy package without contents, it just has the same dependencies as the normal nav package. It's useful for installing NAV from source on Debian, and having all its dependencies installed easily and properly.

...

5.Edit /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/postgresql.conf according to the "Debian README for NAV"

line 93: shared_buffers = 1000 # min 16or max_connections*2, 8KB each line 93: shared_buffers = 1024 # min 16or max_connections*2, 8KB each

Actually, I don't know where these numbers come from. From the head of one of the previous NAV developers, I know, but the "optimal" number of shared buffer can vary substantially with the the size and access patterns of your database.

1024 buffers do not make a substantial difference to 1000 buffers, which is the default. I had a marked improvement in PostgreSQL performance by increasing this number from 1000 to 15000 on our development server.

(Also, on PostgreSQL 8.3, I think this number is/can be specificed as an amount of (kilo/mega/giga)bytes )

Increasing the number to 15000 buffers may also require you to increase the maximum amount of allowed shared memory in your Linux kernel. The variable kernel.shmmax can be altered using the sysctl command, but to make it permanent, you need to edit /etc/sysctl.conf, which defines initial boot-time values for many kernel settings.

...

Any comments are most welcome!

Comments given. I might want to suggest some minor changes, but it would be easier to just edit a wiki page when the time comes.

-- mvh Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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