smokeping_cgi1

Overview

This script acts as a 'website' for your SmokePing monitoring operation. It presents the targets you are looking at in a tree structure and draws graphs as they are required by people looking at the pages.

Overview

To get smokeping_cgi going, you need a webserver which allows you to run CGI or better FastCGI scripts. The system must be setup so that the cgi process is allowed to write to the image caching area as defined in the config file.

This script runs fine as a normal CGI, BUT it will appear to be very slow, because it does a lot of things when starting up. So if the script has to be started a fresh on every click, this is both slow and a tough thing for your webserver. I therefore strongly recommend using FastCGI.

Please refer to the installation document for detailed setup instructions.

Setup

There is a sample htdocs directory in your smokeping installation root. Copy its content to the place where your webserver expects its files. The fcgi script shows the preferred method for running smokeping. You can also run smokeping as a cgi. But make sure to still use the wrapper as exposing ARGV to the webserver represents a security vulnerability you may rather not want to deal with.

Adjust the paths in the script and you should be ready to go.