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diff --git a/doc/smokeping_install.pod b/doc/smokeping_install.pod index 0c9f803..a791c56 100644 --- a/doc/smokeping_install.pod +++ b/doc/smokeping_install.pod @@ -20,33 +20,54 @@ downloading the tool. =item RRDtool 1.0.x -http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.0.33.tar.gz +L<http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/> Just follow the installation instructions. We need this package todo all the logging and graphing in SmokePing. -=item FPing 2.4b2 +=item FPing -http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/pub/fping-2.4b2_to.tar.gz +L<http://www.fping.com/> -This is a special version of fping which actually builds. I have not -modified the code in any way, I just fixed the autoconf setup. The original -can be found on http://www.fping.com/download/fping-2.4b2.tar.gz +You should grab the newest version, 2.4b2_to-ipv6, as it has IPv6 support +and actually builds, unlike the older ones. Note that fping must be installed setuid root. It seems that older versions of fping report round trip times in 0.1 milliseconds instead of 1 milliseconds as advertised ... SmokePing tries to figure this out. It tells you when it starts ... let me know it it gets it wrong. -=item FPing 2.4b2 IPV6 (Optional) +=item EchoPing (Optional) + +L<http://echoping.sourceforge.net/> + +You need this to run the EchoPing probes + +=item Curl (Optional) + +L<http://curl.haxx.se/> -http://unfix.org/projects/ipv6/fping-2.4b2_to-ipv6.tar.gz +You need this for the Curl probe. -You need this if you want to use the FPing6 probe +=item dig (Optional) -=item Socket6 0.11-1 (Optional) +L<http://http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/> -http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Socket6/ +You need this for the DNS probe. + +=item SSH (Optional) + +L<http://www.openssh.org/> + +You need this for the SSH probe. + +=item Various Perl modules (Optional) + +You can get these from L<http://www.cpan.org/>. + +=over + +=item Socket6 0.11-1 Optionally installing the Socket6 module for perl enables smokeping to check hostnames that only resolve to an IPv6 @@ -54,15 +75,27 @@ address. If you probe such hosts using ie. the FPing6 probe and get warnings that those hosts don't resolve to an IP address, you need to install it. -=item EchoPing (Optional) +=item Net::Telnet -http://echoping.sourceforge.net/ +You need this for the telnetIOSPing probe. -You need this to run the EchoPing probes +=item Net::DNS + +You need this for the AnotherDNS probe. + +=item Net::LDAP + +You need this for the LDAP probe. + +=item Authen::Radius + +You need this for the Radius probe. + +=back =item Webserver -http://httpd.apache.org/ +L<http://httpd.apache.org/> Well I wont get much into this. The important thing is, to have a webserver which allows you to run CGI scripts. If you are using Apache I strongly @@ -72,14 +105,14 @@ Using F<suexec> allow to run cgi scripts under proper user accounts. =item Perl 5.6.1 -http://www.perl.com +L<http://www.perl.com> I guess you will get away with older versions of perl. I am using 5.6.1 here and it works fine. =item SpeedyCGI -http://daemoninc.com/speedycgi/ +L<http://daemoninc.com/speedycgi/> SpeedyCGI speeds up CGIs written in perl dramatically by making them memory resident and handing new request to the script which is already running. |