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Standard MySQL must be installed on the system. I recommend the latest stable release, as this will facilitate assuring the upward compatibility of the code.
Be sure that the system is configured to autostart MySQL and httpd upon booting. On some systems this can be doen with 'chkconfig'.
The following /etc/sysctl.conf parameters are recommended for optimum performance on both the
Monitoring host and the target host:
/proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max = 20971520
/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max = 20971520
/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default = 65536
/proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default = 65536
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 20971520
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 20971520
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To allow for running OWAMP, the monitoring and target hosts should be configured with 4 NTP servers. The OWAMP documentation discusses how to setup NTP.
A web server must be installed and running on the monitoring host machine. The document root should be set to '/var/www'.
An account 'iepm' must be allocated on both target and monitoring hosts. The source code will be put into ~iepm/v3src.
The latest version of JAVA must be installed on the monitoring host.
Gnuplot 4.0 is required and must be installed on the monitoring host machine
MySQL is required on the monitoring host. We are currently installing "MySQL Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.1827".
I recommend installing the latest production version of MySQL to ensure upward compatibility.
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