Installation

Tarball

You can get the LSC distribution from the download area. Get zip or tar.gz archive, and unarchive it:

tar zxvf lsc-core-VERSION-dist.tar.gz

LSC is now installed in the subdirectory lsc-VERSION. The main files are:

  • bin/lsc: wrapper to launch LSC

  • etc/lsc.xml: main configuration file

  • sample/: sample scripts

Red-hat-like distribution

LSC is packaged for RedHat/CentOS distributions. You can either install RPM manually, or use our YUM repository.

Using yum repository is encouraged.

Manual download

You can download the RPM here: download area.

The public key can be downloaded here: http://ltb-project.org/wiki/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-LTB-project

To import this key:

rpm --import http://ltb-project.org/wiki/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-LTB-project

Just run this command to install them (with dependency management):

yum localinstall lsc*

Yum repository

Important

Yum repositories are available for this release versions ($releasever):

  • 6/6Server

  • 7/7Server

  • 8/8Server

Configure the yum repository :

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/lsc-project.repo

[lsc-project]
name=LSC project packages
baseurl=http://lsc-project.org/rpm/$releasever/noarch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-LTB-project

Then update:

yum update

The public key can be downloaded here: http://ltb-project.org/wiki/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-LTB-project

To import this key:

rpm --import http://ltb-project.org/wiki/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-LTB-project

You are now ready to install:

yum install lsc

Debian

LSC is packaged for Debian/Ubuntu distributions. You can either install it manually, or use our APT repository:

Using apt repository is encouraged.

Manual download

You can download the package here.

Just run this command to install:

dpkg -i lsc*

APT repository

Configure the apt repository :

vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lsc-project.list

deb     http://lsc-project.org/debian lsc main
deb-src http://lsc-project.org/debian lsc main

Then update:

apt-get update

The public key can be downloaded here: http://ltb-project.org/wiki/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-LTB-project

To import this key:

wget -O - http://ltb-project.org/wiki/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-LTB-project | sudo apt-key add -

You are now ready to install:

apt-get install lsc

Files location

With RPM or Debian packages, LSC files are installed in the following locations:

  • /usr/bin/lsc: wrapper to launch LSC

  • /etc/lsc/: configuration

  • /var/log/lsc/: logs

  • /etc/init.d/lsc: init script (for asynchronous connectors)

  • /etc/default/lsc: init script configuration

  • /etc/cron.d/lsc: cron configuration

  • /usr/lib/lsc/: LSC libraries

  • /var/lib/lsc/nagios/: monitoring scripts

  • /usr/share/doc/lsc: sample scripts