1SMOKEPING_CGI(1)                   SmokePing                  SMOKEPING_CGI(1)
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NAME

6       smokeping_cgi - SmokePing webfrontend
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OVERVIEW

9       This script acts as a 'website' for your SmokePing monitoring
10       operation. It presents the targets you are looking at in a tree
11       structure and draws graphs as they are required by people looking at
12       the pages.
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DESCRIPTION

15       To get smokeping_cgi going, you need a webserver which allows you to
16       run CGI or better FastCGI scripts. The system must be setup so that the
17       cgi process is allowed to write to the image caching area as defined in
18       the config file.
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20       This script runs fine as a normal CGI, BUT it will appear to be very
21       slow, because it does a lot of things when starting up. So if the
22       script has to be started a fresh on every click, this is both slow and
23       a tough thing for your webserver. I therefore strongly recommend using
24       FastCGI.
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26       Please refer to the installation document for detailed setup
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SETUP

30       There is a sample htdocs directory in your smokeping installation root.
31       Copy its content to the place where your webserver expects its files.
32       The fcgi script shows the preferred method for running smokeping.  You
33       can also run smokeping as a cgi.  But make sure to still use the
34       wrapper as exposing ARGV to the webserver represents a security
35       vulnerability you may rather not want to deal with.
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37       Adjust the paths in the script and you should be ready to go.
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SEE ALSO

40       smokeping_config(5), smokeping(1), smokeping_install(7),
41       smokeping_upgrade(7)
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44       Copyright (c) 2011 by Tobias Oetiker. All right reserved.
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LICENSE

47       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
48       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
49       Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
50       option) any later version.
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52       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
53       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
54       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
55       General Public License for more details.
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57       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
58       with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59       675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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AUTHOR

62       Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>
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