I recently installed LibreNMS on two versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHEL 9.6 and RHEL 10. Despite searching for official installation documentation tailored to RHEL, I was unable to find any specific guides. However, I successfully managed to install LibreNMS by following the instructions available for CentOS 8, adjusting them as necessary for the RHEL environment.
I am reaching out to see if anyone in this community has experience installing LibreNMS on RHEL 9 and can share their insights. Additionally, I would like to know if there are plans for future support for LibreNMS on newer RHEL versions, as this information would be beneficial for ongoing and future deployments. Thank you!
I got it running on Rocky9 about 5 months ago without much trouble, but I am an experienced linux administrator. So what seemed natural to me might require a little more research for others. I don’t recall anything particularly worrisome, but it’s been long enough to not trust my memory.
My understanding is Rocky Linux/Alamalinux/oracle linux are all the same as RHEL, so you should be able to use the one you prefer.
Thank you for sharing your experience. After the last update from RHEL 9.6 to 9.7 in December, I encountered an error when validating through the Web UI, and I can’t seem to fix it. I thought I’d ask here in this group whether running LibreNMS is stable for any other RHEL users on their OS.
Even though I intend to post about my current issue separately, I thought I’d share it here anyway.
RHEL is a bit tricky since it is hard for maintainers to verify instructions. Rocky etc would be fine if someone wanted to contributed install docs. They got dropped during the CentOS debacle.
That said, LibreNMS can run on most OS, just only provides install docs for a few.
Like you, I’d have preferred RHEL for my LibreNMS as preferred distro, having been a RH guy historically. But after seeing LibreNMS, in docs and community activity is Ubuntu centric I deployed with Ubuntu. I have the RRD Check Web GUI failure as well after the initial install, with no errors for RRD in the validate script - so the RRD issue I’d think is not specific to RHEL. I still have not resolved this as of yet.
Thank you for sharing the information. I was thinking all this time if it was specific to RHEL, I guess I’m wrong now. If I come across any solution for the RRD check, I’ll definitely post it here.
