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Connectivity grapher.

Latest Versions:

http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/

smokeping-2.6.6.tar.gz

We need the epel repository in yum for installing mod_fcgid httpd-devel, you may choose to uninstall this repo once smokeping is up and running.

wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

or

wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

 

rpm -ihv .....[one of the above]
yum install mod_fcgid httpd-devel

 

yum install rrdtool perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI fping perl-RRD-Simple

mkdir /zone

cd /zone

wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/smokeping-2.6.6.tar.gz

tar xvzf smokeping-2.6.6.tar.gz

Perl for the first time

perl -MCPAN -e shell

Manual Reconfigure: cpan> o conf init
Answer no to the first question if you want to make changes to the configuration

Now we want to install any missing perl packages. Currently to get smokeping running I did not run this script, sh ./setup/build-perl-modules.sh, but rather manually installed the perl modules using perl -MCPAN -e shell

sh ./setup/build-perl-modules.sh

 

which is
#!/bin/bash

. `dirname $0`/sdbs.inc

for module in \
    FCGI \
    CGI \
    CGI::Fast \
    Config::Grammar \
    Digest::HMAC_MD5 \
    Net::Telnet \
    Net::OpenSSH \
    Net::SNMP \
    Net::LDAP \
    Net::DNS \
    IO::Pty \
    LWP \
; do
    perlmodule $module
done

 

RATHER

 

perl -MCPAN -e shell

 

install FCGI

install CGI::Fast

install Config::Grammar

install Digest::HMAC_MD5

install Net::Telnet

install Net::OpenSSH

install Net::SNMP

install Net::LDAP

install Net::DNS

install IO::Pty

install LWP

 

cd /zone/smokeping-2.6.6

./configure --prefix=/opt/smokeping

make install

On with the configuration

cd /opt/smokeping/etc

for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done

cd /opt/smokeping/htdocs
for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done

emacs /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Add smokeping.fcgi
TO
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var
BECOMING
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var smokeping.fcgi

And at the end of the file add:
<Directory "/var/www/html/smokeping">
    Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>

Now we need some directories and symbolics links in your /var/www/html,  e.g :

mkdir /opt/smokeping/img

ln -s /opt/smokeping/htdocs /var/www/html/smokeping

ln -s /opt/smokeping/img /var/www/html/smokeping

May need some specific permissions. But what is created should be enough.

I also put this file in the /var/www/html/smokeping directory, for added safety.

emacs /var/www/html/smokeping/.htaccess
AddHandler cgi-script .fcgi
Options +ExecCGI

Restart httpd

emacs /opt/smokeping/etc/config

First off is /opt/smokeping/etc/config

Change the following lines

owner    = Tony Arcus
contact  = This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
mailhost = localhost
sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
# NOTE: do not put the Image Cache below cgi-bin
# since all files under cgi-bin will be executed ... this is not
# good for images.
imgcache = /opt/smokeping/img
imgurl   = ../smokeping/img
datadir  = /opt/smokeping/data
piddir  = /opt/smokeping/var
cgiurl   = http://mail.xxxxxxxxxx.co.nz/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi
smokemail = /opt/smokeping/etc/smokemail
tmail = /opt/smokeping/etc/tmail
# specify this to get syslog logging
syslogfacility = local0
# each probe is now run in its own process
# disable this to revert to the old behaviour
# concurrentprobes = no

*** Alerts ***
to = This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
from = This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

template = /opt/smokeping/etc/basepage.html

In the middle

*** Slaves ***
secrets=/opt/smokeping/etc/smokeping_secrets

And at the end of this file

+ TheWorld
menu= test
#parents = owner:/Test/location:/

++ Backups

menu = Backups
title =Backups
alerts = someloss
slaves = boomer slave2
host = remote.xxxxxx.co.nz

++ WWW

menu = WWW
title =WWW
alerts = someloss
slaves = boomer slave2
host = www.xxxxxx.co.nz

Next

mkdir /opt/smokeping/data

mkdir /opt/smokeping/var

 

chmod 600 /opt/smokeping/etc/smokeping_secrets

chown -R apache.apache /var/www/html/smokeping

cd /opt/smokeping

Lets test
./bin/smokeping --config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config --debug

Let run
./bin/smokeping --config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config --logfile=smoke.log

This is pretty specific for a Centos 6 server.

Please give me feed back if this works or not for you.

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