LogZilla on Redhat/CentOS/Fedora

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Centos/Redhat installation

Starting with:

Centos 5.5 32 or 64 bit; Desktopinstallation/GNOME.(without mysql and PHP!) It is a *very* recommended to give the Server a static IP :-).

Dont forget to open syslogd/udp/514 and http/tcp/80 in the firewall settings. SELinux Permisive. Also a good idea to sync the time with a time-Server (if not done via a VM Module).

do a "yum update"

reboot the Server.

Download mysql 5.1 or 5.5 from the mysql HP (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/#downloads)

Choose Redhat Enterprise Linux

Download and install the mysql 5.[15].xx Client/Server/Devel rpm package for your Archetecture.

Install syslog-ng (rpm form the balabit site; http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/sources/); same procedure as mysql

$ yum install perl-Date-Calc

$ yum install gcc

$ yum install gcc-c++

$ yum install perl-DBI

$ cpan File::Tail DBD::mysql Text::LevenshteinXS MIME::Lite


you need a password for the logzilla install.pl script: 

  $ mysql
  mysql> use mysql
  mysql> set password = PASSWORD ('secret');
  mysql> flush privileges;
  mysql> exit

$ mkdir /etc/syslog-ng

$ cd /etc/syslog-ng

$ ln -s /opt/syslog-ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf .

We need a php Version for mysql 5.1; Redhat/Centos dont provide so, so we use zend:

add /etc/yum.repos.d/zend.repo:

[Zend]

name=Zend Server

baseurl=http://repos.zend.com/zend-server/rpm/$basearch

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

[Zend_noarch]

name=Zend Server - noarch

baseurl=http://repos.zend.com/zend-server/rpm/noarch

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

$ yum install zend-server-ce-php-5.3.noarch

$ service zend-server restart

$ firefox http://127.0.0.1:10081 - agree licence - set up password

$ cd /usr/bin

$ ln -s /usr/local/zend/bin/php .

Do the logzilla install. 

 Install_Guide_for_LogZilla_v3.0#Installing_LogZilla
 Install_Guide_for_LogZilla_v3.0#Installing_Sphinx
 Install_Guide_for_LogZilla_v3.0#Configure_MySQL
 Install_Guide_for_LogZilla_v3.0#Configure_Syslog-ng


$ /etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart

$ cd /etc/httpd/conf.d

$ cp /home_of_the_logzilla_installation/scripts/contrib/system_configs/logzilla.apache logzilla.conf


Finish the installation, install Ioncube: 

 Install_Guide_for_LogZilla_v3.0#IONCube_Licensing

thats all.


Preparing Fedora 14 for Logzilla Installation

There was a bug in the Fedora Distro, mysql wasn't compiled with the partitioning option. Now it's fixed. Refer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597390

Keep in mind, Fedora distributions are "bleeding edge" desktop versions. The lifecycle is only 1 year.

Most common is the installation direct from the Live-CD. So we start here.

After Installation on the hard-disk you have to change following parameters:

- set a static ip address

- permit tcp/80 and tcp/514 in the firewall settings

- disable selinux

To finish the preperation you need to add some more pakets. 

  yum install syslog-ng mysql mysql-devel mysql-server perl-Date-Calc gcc gcc-c++ perl-File-Tail perl-String-CRC32 
  yum install perl-Class-DBI-mysql perl-CPAN php php-mysql perl-MIME-Lite

Keep the distro up-to-date. 

  yum update

One paket isn´t in the distro. So we download it via CPAN. 

  cpan Text::LevenshteinXS

Enable the needed services at startup. 

  chkconfig rsyslog off
  chkconfig syslog-ng on
  chkconfig mysqld on
  chkconfig httpd on

Now it´s time for a 

  reboot

you need a password for the logzilla install.pl script: 

  $ mysql
  mysql> use mysql
  mysql> set password = PASSWORD ('secret');
  mysql> flush privileges;
  mysql> exit


Now you can start with the logzilla installation.... 

 Install_Guide_for_LogZilla_v3.0#Installing_LogZilla


have fun.

--ThomasH 14:29, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

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