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NAME

rrdutil - a simple host monitoring app based on rrdtool

SYNOPSIS

RRDutil automates the creation of rrdtool based databases, populates them with data, and then displays the data in a HTML format for convenient display and printing.

DESCRIPTION

RRDutil is a tool to collect, store, and graph runtime information about Unix servers running net-snmp. It depends on Net::SNMP, RRDs (rrdtool), and CGI.pm.

INSTALLATION

Download (free) from The Network People store:

http://www.tnpi.biz/store/product_info.php?cPath=2&products_id=41

To install this module type the following:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install

To install the CGI

    make cgi

If your cgi-bin is not in a standard place for your OS, simply copy the rrdutil.pl file to your cgi-bin directory.

AUTHOR

 Matt Simerson <matt@tnpi.biz>
 Rob Lensen <rob@bsdfreaks.nl>

BUGS

None known. Report any to author.

TODO

 Add more bounds checking on inputs, especially via CGI
 Modify config file via HTML interface
 Poll systems via SNMP to assist in HTML setup

SEE ALSO

http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/manage/rrdutil/

head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2003-2004, The Network People, Inc. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that t he following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the followi ng disclaimer.

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