eximon - Exim Monitor installation on cPanel machines (CentOS 7)

Hi, Next month, I will be presenting at the cPanel Conference in Denver for my topic on Exim Optimization. During the course of preparing that topic, I decided to try installing eximon on a CentOS 7 machine. The following tutorial covers how to install this component, but I do need to note that X-Windows is installed in the process on the cPanel box. The tool is useful enough to warrant having X-Windows installed, although we typically would not encourage installing interfaces onto a cPanel-based machine. As any component not provided by default, this component would have the caveat to use or install at your own risk. 1. Grabbing exim monitoring script (exim-mon): The only copy is in the Fedora project:
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/exim-mon-4.84-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
2. Install libXaw, required for the script to install:
yum install libXaw
3. Install the rpm itself now:
rpm -Uvh exim-mon-4.84-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
4. Install X Windows
yum -y groupinstall "X Window System"
5. Configuration of eximon Create the file at /usr/local/eximon.conf by taking the copy from
To this:
EXIMON_BINARY="/usr/sbin/eximon.bin"
Now, create this directory:
mkdir -p /etc/exim
Then symlink the exim configuration into that folder location (this is because that's where eximon expects the file to be found):
ln -s /etc/exim.conf /etc/exim/exim.conf
6. Getting X Windows working:
touch /root/.Xauthority
Now, SSH to the box from your system:

ssh -X root@servername
eximon

Of note, I tested this on Mac OSX 10.10 and 10.8 where I also had X Windows setup for the connection (I setup X Windows some time ago on the Mac, so I don't have the steps for that portion). If using another system for connecting, that system also needs to have X Windows working on it.

eximon - Exim Monitor installation on cPanel machines (CentOS 7)

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