NAME

growthforecast.pl - Lightning Fast Graphing/Visualization

SYNOPSIS

% growthforecast.pl --data-dir=/path/to/dir

DESCRIPTION

GrowthForecast is graphing/visualization web tool built on RRDtool

INSTALL

Install dependencies

To install growthforecast, these libraries are needed.

• glib

• xml2

• pango

• cairo

(CentOS) $ sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
         $ sudo yum install pkgconfig glib2-devel gettext libxml2-devel pango-devel cairo-devel

(Ubuntu) $ sudo apt-get build-dep rrdtool

Install GrowthForecast

$ cpanm GrowthForecast

It's recommended to using perlbrew

OPTIONS

--data-dir

A directory to store rrddata and metadata

--port

TCP port listen on. Default is 5125

--host

IP address to listen on

--front-proxy

IP addresses or CIDR of reverse proxy

--allow-from

IP addresses or CIDR to allow access from. Default is empty (allow access from any remote ip address)

--disable-1min-metrics

don't generate 1min rrddata and graph Default is "1" (enabled)

--with-mysql

DB connection setting to store metadata. format like dbi:mysql:[dbname];hostname=[hostnaem] Default is no mysql setting. GrowthForecast save metadata to SQLite

-h --help

Display help

MYSQL Setting

GrowthForecast uses SQLite as metadata by default. And also supports MySQL

GrowthForecast needs these MySQL privileges.

• CREATE

• ALTER

• DELETE

• INSERT

• UPDATE

• SELECT

Sample GRANT statement

mysql> GRANT statement sample> GRANT  CREATE, ALTER, DELETE, INSERT, UPDATE, SELECT \\
         ON growthforecast.* TO 'www'\@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY foobar;

Give USERNAME and PASSWORD to GrowthForecast by environment value

$ MYSQL_USER=www MYSQL_PASSWORD=foobar growthforecast.pl \\
    --data-dir /home/user/growthforeacst \\
    -with-mysql dbi:mysql:growthforecast;hostname=localhost 

AUTHOR Masahiro Nagano <kazeburo {at} gmail.com>

LICENSE This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.