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Revision: 1.7
Committed: Mon May 31 13:52:27 2004 UTC (20 years, 5 months ago) by tdb
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# Content
1 i-scream central monitoring system - ihost README
2 http://www.i-scream.org/cms/
3
4 $Id: README,v 1.6 2003/09/26 21:22:44 tdb Exp $
5
6 Description
7 -----------
8
9 ihost is a host for the i-scream central monitoring system. It's task
10 is to collect information about the machine it runs on and report it
11 to the server for monitoring. It makes use of the external libstatgrab
12 library for collecting this information.
13
14 Building and Installation
15 -------------------------
16
17 First download and install libstatgrab and libukcprog. These two
18 libraries are used by ihost, and other i-scream packages. They should
19 be available from the same place as ihost.
20
21 After downloading and extracting ihost, configure and build as follows;
22
23 ./configure
24 make
25
26 Then install as root;
27
28 make install
29
30 You may wish to use one of the following configure options to change
31 aspects of this process;
32
33 --with-libstatgrab-prefix=PATH
34 --with-libukcprog-prefix=PATH
35 --with-pid-file=FILE
36 --with-log-file=FILE
37 --with-max-udp-size=SIZE
38
39 The first two allow you to specify the prefix to the libstatgrab and
40 libukcprog libraries if they're not in a standard place. The next two
41 give you the option of changing the location of the PID file, and
42 changing the location of the log file. The last option allows you to
43 change the maximum size of the UDP packets ihost sends to the server,
44 although you shouldn't need to change this in normal circumstances.
45
46 There are, of course, the usual GNU-style configure options;
47
48 --prefix=PREFIX
49
50 For more documentation on the installation process, please read the
51 INSTALL document.
52
53 Running ihost
54 -------------
55
56 Running ihost with the -h flag will provide a list of options. You will
57 need to know the address and port number of your i-scream server's filter
58 manager. These details should be given on the command line to ihost.
59
60 Problems?
61 ---------
62
63 Please let us know if you have any problems - support@i-scream.org.
64
65 If you find a bug, help us to fix it by sending details to
66 bugs@i-scream.org. If you have a patch, please send it too.
67
68 Thank-you for using i-scream software.