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Include Perl library for Oracle in Centreon's repos

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  • May 6, 2026
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Hello.

We would like to use the Oracle Database connector but it has a perl library as a prerequisite, which has to be downloaded and installed manually from a 3d party source (not Centreon’s or OS repositories).

For security reasons, we are not able to download/install anything that is not in our SUMA (SUSE Manager) channels. Our Central and pollers are registered to Oracle Linux channels and we have also Centreon's repos in our SUMA Service.

So, would it be possible to add that package to Centreon's repositories? Meaning that it has been tested by Centreon so it is guaranteed to be a version compatible with the current connector and also secure for installation.

The other dependency, the Oracle Instant Client is also available through official repos, so that is not a stopper for us.

Regards

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I’m not in expert in the Oracle field specially, but i remember that we had a similar situation with packages related to vmware sdk. The packages couldn’t be bundled within Centreon packages because of licensing issues. Maybe that’s a similar case here ? I know Oracle can be touchy with licencing.

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  • emeck
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  • Steward ***
  • May 7, 2026

Hi.

I’m referring to the package downloaded from CPAN (https://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/DBD-Oracle-1.83.tar.gz).

AFAICT it is free to redistribute and modify, and is not from Oracle (I guess otherwise it would be available through its official repos).

The other dependency, Oracle Instant Client, can be installed from official repositories. At least for Oracle Linux it IS available in its repos.

So the problem is the perl library from CPAN in our case.

 

Regards

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That make sense. I do also see that this is due to multiple version of the CPAN module need to be used depending on the database version Oracle Database | Centreon Documentation

I’m unsure of what is their intent behind it, but if it’s mostly for ease of deployment, and not to add as hard dependency, i don’t see why not.

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  • emeck
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  • May 7, 2026

Yes, the Oracle Instant Client depends on the Oracle database. So it has to be installed accordingly from its repos

 

But the connector documentation gives the CPAN perl library url to DBD-Oracle-1.83.tar.gz specifically, which, for what I can see was, released in early 2022.

 

So the perl library seems to be independent of the Oracle client/database combination. At least for now.

 

Regards

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