SMOKEPING.CGI.DIST(1)              SmokePing             SMOKEPING.CGI.DIST(1)



NAME
       smokeping.cgi - SmokePing webfrontend

OVERVIEW
       This script acts as a 'website' for your SmokePing monitoring opera-
       tion. It presents the targets you are looking at in a tree structure
       and draws graphs as they are required by people looking at the pages.

DESCRIPTION
       To get smokeping.cgi going, you need a webserver which allows you to
       run cgi scripts. The system must be setup so that the smokeping.cgi is
       allowed to write to the image caching area as defined in the config
       file.

       This script runs with normal perl. BUT it will appear to be very slow,
       because it does a lot of things when starting up. So if the script has
       to be started a fresh on every click, this is both slow and a tough
       thing for your webserver. I therefore strongly recomment using Speedy-
       CGI.

       Please refer to the installation document for detailed setup instruc-
       tions.

SETUP
       When installing SmokePing, this file has to be adjusted to fit your
       local system. Three paths have to be entered.

        use lib qw(/usr/pack/rrdtool-1.0.33-to/lib/perl);

       One pointing to your rrdtool installation

        use lib qw(/home/oetiker/public_html/smokeping/lib);

       One pointing to the place where you have installed the SmokePing
       libraries

        use Smokeping;

        Smokeping::cgi("/home/oetiker/.smokeping/config");

       The third path is the argument to the Smokeping::cgi command. It points
       to the SmokePing configuration file.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2001 by Tobias Oetiker. All right reserved.

LICENSE
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
       Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
       option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General
       Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
       with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
       675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

AUTHOR
       Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>



2.4.2                             2008-07-24             SMOKEPING.CGI.DIST(1)
