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Compiling the Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins

HOWTO build / compile / make the Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins, package them for Linux (rpm or deb) or for Windows (exe).

Compiling and Building for Linux

Note

You can find the pre-built OS packages at https://repo.linuxfabrik.ch/monitoring-plugins/.

The Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins are compiled with pyinstaller while the OS installation packages are built afterwards with FPM. This allows us to completely avoid Python on the target systems.

What this HOWTO covers:

  • rpm for RHEL 7+
  • deb for Debian 10+, Ubuntu 18+
  • tar
  • zip

Currently not implemented:

  • apk (= Alpine; because of errors while running fpm -s deb -t apk linuxfabrik-monitoring-plugins.deb and fpm -s rpm -t apk linuxfabrik-monitoring-plugins.rpm)
  • FreeBSD (because of errors while running fpm -s deb -t freebsd linuxfabrik-monitoring-plugins.deb and fpm -s rpm -t freebsd linuxfabrik-monitoring-plugins.rpm)
  • pacman (= Arch Linux; because of errors while running fpm -s deb -t pacman linuxfabrik-monitoring-plugins.deb, fpm -s rpm -t pacman linuxfabrik-monitoring-plugins.rpm and fpm -t pacman -p linuxfabrik-monitoring-plugins.pkg.tar.zst)

Not tested:

  • OpenSUSE

Currently the compilation and build process is done automatically using GitHub Actions. Have a look at the Linux Build CI/CD and the build scripts.

Note that we are not building new containers because we always want the most up-to-date package versions. If we need to speed up the workflow, one could try to build a container with all the required tools, and then just run an update in the container every time the workflow is triggered. However, since the workflow currently only runs for git tags (and maybe nightly builds in the future), the workflow duration is not very important for us.

Compiling for Windows

Done automatically per Nuitka CI/CD.