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The installed system is called Voyage Linux a Debian Linux variant. The machines had perl and Apache installed. We accessed it through ssh. We also had to install: make, dig, mail, and XML::Simple. In /etc/ssh/sshd_config we also commented the line where it sets a local environment variable from the client environment variable.
Installation of PingER2
Following the instructions in PingER End-to-end Reporting version 2, we logged in via ssh from SLAC to the machines located at ICTP and installed PingER2 under the /root/pinger-2.0.2 directory. There is an example of the installation here.
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Some information on this can be found in ePingER Management. We have not determined how or if to apply patches automatically.
We also do not added a cronjob (pinger_trimmer.pl) to run on the 28th of each month to trim the data files (in /usr/local/share/pinger/ping-yyyy-mm.txt) to say remove all but the last 60 days. Thus the datafiles will grow indefinitely. Since they are gathered from the archive sites daily theyre is no need to keep them around indefinittely and they should be trimmed2 months of data. This prevents the datafiles from growing indefinitely.
Experiences
Marco any concerns about flash memory and repeated accesses, lifetime etc.?