Nokia N900 Quickstart¶

This guide is intended to provide you with simple instructions on how to install Shinken from source (code) on a Nokia N900.

A Shinken how-to provides details on a new installation method using an install.sh script.

If you were really looking to install it on a GNU/Linux platform or Windows follow the Shinken 10 minute installation guide..

If you really wish to install Shinken on a Nokia N900, Read On!

Required Packages¶

Python >= 2.4
Pyro (Python module for distributed objects)
Git (If you want the latest code)

About Nokia N900¶

The smartphone Nokia N900 runs natively under the Maemo Operating System (which includes python 2.5.4). You can find more information about it at : http://maemo.org/intro/ and http://maemo.nokia.com/

Tip

You will need an internet connection to continu, don’t forget to take care of your 3G data quota! It’s easier to do it via ssh. And you will need of a tool like gainroot or rootsh to complete the following steps.

Create users :

Nokia-N900:~$ root
Nokia-N900:~#
Nokia-N900:~# useradd -m shinken
Nokia-N900:~# groupadd shinken
Nokia-N900:~# usermod -G shinken shinken

Then add theses two new repository at the end of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hildon-application-manager.list :

deb http://repository.maemo.org/ fremantle/sdk free non-free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/ fremantle/tools free non-free

Next, install python an pyro :

Nokia-N900:~# aptitude update
Nokia-N900:~# aptitude install python-dev python-setuptools build-essential
Nokia-N900:~# easy_install http://www.xs4all.nl/~irmen/pyro3/download/Pyro-3.10.tar.gz

Now, we can install shinken, we use MyDocs because it’s the mount point of the ssd drive :

Nokia-N900:~# cd /home/user/MyDocs/ && mkdir tmp && cd tmp
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs/tmp/# wget http://shinken-monitoring.org/pub/shinken-0.5.1.tar.gz
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs/tmp/# tar zxf shinken-0.5.1.tar.gz
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs/tmp/# cd shinken-0.5.1
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs/tmp/shinken-0.5.1# python setup.py install --install-scripts=/usr/bin/
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs/tmp/shinken-0.5.1# cp -af bin/* /usr/bin/
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs/tmp/shinken-0.5.1# sync && cd

You can test an see what happen :

Nokia-N900:~# launch_all.sh
Nokia-N900:~# ps aux | grep python

That’s all! But for installation only! You need now to configure shinken.

Important

And don’t forget to take care of your 3G data quota!!