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6 smokeping_install - How to install SmokePing
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9 This document explains how to setup SmokePing at your site.
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12 Prerequisites
13 SmokePing does not stand alone. It relies on various other tools and
14 services being present. Apart from a Unix OS and a working Perl
15 installation you need the following components:
16 RRDtool 1.2.x or later
18 Smokeping uses RRDtool for logging and graphing. If your linux
19 distro provides an rrdtool package with perl support, use this. If
20 you want to get the latest and greatest version, compile your own:
21 <http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/>
22 Ubuntu:
24 sudo apt install rrdtool librrds-perl libssl-dev
26 RedHat:
28 sudo yum install rrdtool perl-rrdtool openssl-devel
30 FPing (optional)
32 Go to <http://www.fping.org/> to grab a copy.
33 Note that fping must be installed setuid root. It seems that older
35 versions of fping report round trip times in 0.1 milliseconds
36 instead of 1 milliseconds as advertised ... SmokePing tries to
37 figure this out. It tells you when it starts ... let me know if it
38 gets it wrong.
39 EchoPing (Optional)
41 <https://github.com/bortzmeyer/echoping/>
42 You need this to run the EchoPing probes
44 Curl (Optional)
46 <http://curl.haxx.se/>
47 You need this for the Curl probe.
49 dig (Optional)
51 <http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/>
52 You need this for the DNS probe.
54 SSH (Optional)
56 <http://www.openssh.org/>
57 You need this for the SSH probe.
59 Webserver
61 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
62 Well I won't get much into this. The important thing is, to have a
64 webserver which allows you to run CGI and preferably FastCGI
65 scripts. If you are using Apache I strongly recommend using the
66 suexec system for running CGI scripts as a particular user.
67 See <http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/mod/mod_fcgid.html> and
69 <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_suexec.html> for more
70 information on this.
71 Perl 5.10.1 or later.
73 If you still have an older version, maybe have a look at perlbrew.
74 Ubuntu:
76 sudo apt install perl
78 RedHat:
80 sudo yum install perl-core
82 Installation
84 Once the tools listed above are in place, you can start setting up
85 SmokePing itself. Unpack the tar archive and run the included configure
86 script:
87 ./configure --prefix=/opt/smokeping
89 Configure will verify that all the required perl modules are available.
91 If some are missing it will tell you to run the module build script.
92 Just follow the instructions on screen and then run configure again.
93 Once it completes, you can run
94 make install
96 to finish your setup.
98 Configuration
100 Use the etc/config.dist file as a template to create your own smokeping
101 configuration file. See smokeping_config for details.
102 Installing the webinterface
104 Copy the content of the PREFIX/htdocs directory to the place where
105 your webserver expects its data. Maybe to /var/www/smokeping.
106 Edit the smokeping.fcgi script to point to your smokeping_cgi
108 script.
109 If you have no FastCGI support in your webserver, you may want to
111 use the smokeping.cgi script.
112 etc/basepage.html
114 Edit the html template to your liking. Please do not remove the
115 link to the SmokePing counter and my name from the template. The
116 content of the template will be rendered by smokeping.cgi. This
117 means that all embedded links must be relative to smokeping.cgi.
118 If you are using HTTP authentication, then the template variable
119 "authuser" will be populated from the $ENV{REMOTE_USER} environment
120 variable.
121 etc/smokemail
123 If you are going to use the DYNAMIC IP support, customize the
124 contents of this file.
125 Starting the Smokeping Daemon
127 With all the scaffolding in place, you can now launch the smokeping
128 daemon and have it gather data for you. First you may want to run it in
129 debug mode to see what it is doing
130 ./bin/smokeping --config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config --debug
132 once all is well, start it up as a daemon. I would recommend you enable
134 the logfile option so that you can see if it runs into trouble.
135 ./bin/smokeping --config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config --logfile=smoke.log
137 Once the system works, you may want to put a SmokePing startup script
139 into your /etc/init.d tree. Check out smokeping for further
140 information.
141 You can now open the smokeping.cgi webpage to look at your data.
143 See the smokeping_cgi documentation on how to setup the smokeping web
145 interface.
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148 Copyright (c) 2001, 2011 by Tobias Oetiker. All right reserved.
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151 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
152 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
153 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
154 option) any later version.
155 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
157 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
158 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
159 General Public License for more details.
160 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
162 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
163 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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166 Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>
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