Install needed packages

Install needed packages

rrdtool

yum install rrdtool

perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI

yum install perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI

fping

yum install fping

Or do them all together:

yum install rrdtool perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI fping

Smokeping

wget ~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/pub/smokeping-2.0.9.tar.gz
tar xvzf smokeping-2.0.9.tar.gz
mv smokeping-2.0.9 /usr/local/smokeping
chown -R root:root /usr/local/smokeping

cd /usr/local/smokeping/bin
for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done

cd  /usr/local/smokeping/etc/
for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done

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

pico /usr/local/smokeping/bin/smokeping

Default	New
#!/usr/sepp/bin/perl-5.8.4 -w	#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use lib qw(/usr/pack/rrdtool-1.0.49-to/lib/perl);	use lib qw(/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/RRDs);
or if a i386 system use
use lib qw(/usr/pack/rrdtool-1.0.49-to/lib/perl);	use lib qw(/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RRDs);
use lib qw(lib);	use lib qw(/usr/local/smokeping/lib);
use Smokeping 2.000008;
Smokeping::main("etc/config.dist");	Smokeping::main("/usr/local/smokeping/etc/config");

pico /usr/local/smokeping/htdocs/smokeping.cgi

Default	New
#!/usr/sepp/bin/speedy -w	#!/usr/bin/speedy -w
use lib qw(/usr/pack/rrdtool-1.0.33-to/lib/perl);	use lib qw(/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/RRDs);
or if a i386 system use
use lib qw(/usr/pack/rrdtool-1.0.49-to/lib/perl);	use lib qw(/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RRDs);
use lib qw(/home/oetiker/data/projects/AADJ-smokeping/dist/lib);	use lib qw(/usr/local/smokeping/lib);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Smokeping 2.000008;
Smokeping::cgi("/home/oetiker/data/projects/AADJ-smokeping/dist/etc/config");	Smokeping::cgi("/usr/local/smokeping/etc/config");

cp /usr/local/smokeping/htdocs/smokeping.cgi /var/www/cgi-bin

pico /usr/local/smokeping/etc/config

etc/config
*** General ***

Default	New
owner = Joe Random	owner = Tony Someone
contact = [e-mail]	contact = tony@somehhere
mailhost = smtp.mailhost.abc	mailhost = smtp.somewhere
sendmail = /usr/lib/sendmail
imgcache = /home/oetiker/public_html/.simg	imgcache = /var/www/html/smokeping/img
imgurl = ../.simg	imgurl =
datadir = /home/oetiker/data/projects/AADJ-smokeping/dist/var	datadir = /usr/local/smokeping/var
piddir = /home/oetiker/data/projects/AADJ-smokeping/dist/var	piddir = /usr/local/smokeping/var
cgiurl = ~oetiker/smokeping/smokeping.cgi	cgiurl =
smokemail = /home/oetiker/data/projects/AADJ-smokeping/dist/etc/smokemail.dist	smokemail = /usr/local/smokeping/etc/smokemail
tmail = /home/oetiker/data/projects/AADJ-smokeping/dist/etc/tmail.dist	tmail = /usr/local/smokeping/etc/tmail
syslogfacility = local0

*** Alerts ***

to =	to = [e-mail]
from = smokealert@	from = [e-mail]

*** Presentation ***

template = /home/oetiker/data/projects/AADJ-smokeping/dist/etc/basepage.html.dist

template = /usr/local/smokeping/etc/basepage.html

*** Probes ***

binary = /usr/sepp/bin/fping

binary = /usr/sbin/fping

For some strange reason I had to make this change to /usr/sbin/fping
chown apache /usr/sbin/fping

*** Targets ***

+ World

menu = World Connectivity

title= World Connectivity

++ New Zealand

menu = New Zealand Servers

title = New Zealand Server

+++ a Server

menu = My Server

title = My Server

host = something.newskies.net

mkdir -p /var/www/html/smokeping/img
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/smokeping/img

mkdir /usr/local/smokeping/var

/usr/local/smokeping/bin/smokeping &

#ps aux | grep smoke
root      8384  0.0  2.5  14976  3272 ?        Ss   May24   0:01 /usr/local/smokeping/bin/smokeping [FPing]
apache    8435  0.0  1.7  11100  2168 ?        Ss   May24   0:02 /usr/bin/speedy_backend -w /var/www/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi
apache    8436  0.3  3.9  12648  5036 ?        S    May24   2:04 /usr/bin/speedy_backend -w /var/www/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi

vi /etc/rc.d/rc.local
/usr/local/smokeping/bin/smokeping &