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The installed system is called Raspbian a Debian Linux variant. The OS had Perl, Make, dig, ping and mail installed. We accessed it through the graphic interface of Raspbian. We just had to install: Apache and XML::Simple.
Installation of PingER2
Following the instructions in PingER End-to-end Reporting version 2. After installing the PingER2 monitoring code, we installed the ping_data gathering agent, and the traceroute server following the instructions. Lastly The first step, before start the installation process we had to change the hostname in Raspbian.
sudo nano /etc/hosts
sudo nano /etc/hostname
sudo /etc/init.d/hostname.sh
Notice that the hostname here must include the domain. So, our hostname was was pinger.raspberry.slac.stanford.edu. In the hosts file is not necessary to write the domain name.
Then, we followed the instructions in PingER End-to-end Reporting version 2. After installing the PingER2 monitoring code, we installed the ping_data gathering agent, and the traceroute server following the instructions.
We temporarily entered the machines as monitors in the PingER meta data base of hosts and successfully gathered the data using the standard overnight cronjobhost.