Cheops on RH8

kstarks · 09-11-2003, 08:49 AM

I am in need of graphical network mapping, and am trying to wean myself from Windoze tools and move strictly to working in Linux. Cheops looks interesting, but it has not been maintained and wants a version of gtk+ that is older than that on RH8. Can I run this on RH8 or does anyone know? Sorry, I am still a little wet behind the ears on Linux.

Keith Starks

david_ross · 09-11-2003, 01:00 PM

Welcome to LQ.

I haven't used cheops (looks good though) I tend to use xfig although dia is quite good too. I'll try Cheops myself to see if I can get it to work.

kstarks · 09-11-2003, 04:03 PM

I took a look at xfig, and found that this is a drawing progam. Cheops actually polls network devices and creates a logical diagram of these devices and how they are connected so that net geeks like myself can see why things are perhaps not working correctly. That is what I am trying to accomplish. Thanks for the tip on xfig, though.

Keith Starks

david_ross · 09-11-2003, 04:31 PM

Ok - I've just managed to build cheops-ng from source on RedHat 9. Download this package:
http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sou...-ng-0.1.12.tgz

Extract it:
tar -xzf cheops-ng-0.1.12.tgz

Move into that directory and start the configure proccess:
cd cheops-ng-0.1.12
./configure

Compile source (you may get some warnings but you an probably ignore them):
make

Install the app as root with:
make install

Then as root start the scanning agent:
cheops-agent

To start the program itself run:
cheops-ng

It seems to work ok for me.