Welcome to rrd.me.uk.
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If you would like your server to be monitored by rrd.me.uk, you will
need to download a copy of the data gathering client script (rrd-client.pl).
Click here to download a copy of rrd-client.pl. rrd-client.pl
currently works best on Linux 2.6 installs or higher, but will does have limited
support for Linux 2.4 distributions, BSD, Darwin and Solaris. Cross platform
support will improve over time. To get the best results by monitoring as much
as possible, you should make sure that you have the following programs installed:
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Tree-hugging Debian & Ubuntu users can install these using:sudo apt-get install sysstat hddtemp lm-sensors procpsClever-clogs Fedora, RedHat & CentOS users can install these using: yum install sysstat hddtemp lm-sensors procps
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wget -O - -q http://rrd.me.uk/rrd-client.pl | perl -w to
see if rrd-client.pl will work on your system without actually installing it on
disk) you should add it to your crontab to HTTP POST the data to our server run
every 4 or 5 minutes. A typical crontab entry might be:*/4If you are not using a Vixie complaint
cron daemon, or which to offset execution another minute, you may wish to
use the following instead:
1,6,11,16,21,26,31,36,41,46,51,56
* * * * sleep 10;By delaying the execution
of your rrd-client.pl script until 10 seconds after the minute, you will help
avoid taking misrepresentative elevated data samples due to spawning
cron tasks that happen on the minute. /usr/local/bin/rrd-client.pl
-q -p http://rrd.me.uk/cgi-bin/rrd-server.cgi >/dev/null
To setup your own RRD::Simple Monitoring server, download the latest version of RRD::Simple (version 1.44 or higher), and follow these instructions. You can find the very latest version of the RRD::Simple Monitoring software that is in live use on rrd.me.uk, here.
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