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