PingER on a Virtual Machine at SLAC

Created by Les Cottrell, last modified on Feb 11, 2015

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Installation

Spin up the virtual machine.

Its nickname is pingervm
It is called dhcp-nebula-124.26.slac.stanford.edu (134.79.124.66)
Install Apache
- yum install -y httpd

Install pinger2.pl

You need a writeable /usr/local
- Get root access (sudo -s)
- Set usrlocal=local in /etc/taylor.opts
- sudo taylor everything to make the change take effect (example)
- Install lynx (example), XML::Simple (example)
  - It also needs ping (usually pre-installed in /bin/ping), ping6 (usually pre-installed in /bin/ping6), dig (usually pre-installed in /usr/bin/dig), and mail (usually pre-installed in /bin/mail)

Follow the instructions at: Installation Overview
- tar xzf pinger-2.0.3.tar.gz
- cd pinger-2.0.3
- ./configure (example)
- make test_prereqs
- make (example)
Then
- make install (example)
- make install_cron (example)

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