See cgi-bin/instructions.tmpl for instructions, or http://rrd.me.uk.


+ rrd-client.pl
  does NOT have any special Perl requirements and does not
  need rrdtool or RRD::Simple to be installed.

+ rrd-server.pl
  DOES require RRDtool version 1.2.x or higher and
  RRD::Simple 1.41 or higher to be installed.

+ rrd-browse.cgi
  DOES require a number of modules (see list below).


Software required:
==================
perl-5.8.8.tar.gz
rrdtool-1.2.13.tar.gz

Modules required:
=================
HTML-Template-2.8.tar.gz
HTML-Template-Expr-0.07.tar.gz
Parse-RecDescent-1.94.tar.gz
Config-General-2.31.tar.gz
Module-Build-0.2801.tar.gz
RRD-Simple-1.41.tar.gz


Directories:
============

/home/system/rrd/bin        - perl, rrdtool, rrd-server.pl rrd-client.pl
/home/system/rrd/cgi-bin    - rrd-server.cgi rrd-browse.cgi
/home/system/rrd/data       - .rrd files
/home/system/rrd/etc        - graph.defs, create.defs, rrd-httpd.conf
/home/system/rrd/graphs     - .png and .txt files
/home/system/rrd/include    - rrd.h
/home/system/rrd/lib        - perl modules
/home/system/rrd/share      - rrdtool resources
/home/system/rrd/thumbnails - .png thumbnails


Notes:
======

# Send from the client to a remote server
*/5 * * * * sleep 10; /usr/local/bin/rrd-client.pl -p http://rrd.me.uk/cgi-bin/rrd-server.cgi >/dev/null 2>&1

# Pipe client to server
*/5 * * * * sleep 10; /home/system/rrd/bin/rrd-client.pl | /home/system/rrd/bin/rrd-server.pl -u server1.domain.com

### Send over the network using netcat
##/home/system/rrd/bin/rrd-client.pl | nc -p 4444 server1.domain.com
##nc -l -p 4444 | /home/system/rrd/bin/rrd-server.pl -u server1.domain.com