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=cut
TITLE=Server Installation
DESCRIPTION=how to install remstats servers
KEYWORDS=servers
DOCTOP=index
DOCPREV=private
DOCNEXT=install-webserver
=pod
=head1 Server Installation
One of the interesting things about remstats (I think), is
the L<remote servers|servers>. To install them, you'll need to do a few
things on each host which will run the servers:
=over 4
=item Add entries for the servers in C</etc/services>, like
this:
unix-status 1957/tcp # remstats unix-status server
log-server 1958/tcp # remstats log server
You can run them on different ports, but these are the
defaults and you'd have to change L<run-remstats>
to add the appropriate switches.
=item [Optional] Unless you're going to run the servers as
root (unnecessary), you'll need to create the user that
the servers will run as.
The only reasons I can think of for running the servers as
root are if you need to run them on a low-numbered port
(<=1024), or if you need to read a log-file which isn't
readable by the remstats user, or if you want to run
multiping non-suid. On Linux and Solaris, you can do:
groupadd @@GROUP@@
useradd -g @@GROUP@@ -d @@INSTALLDIR@@ @@OWNER@@
=item Modify C</etc/inetd.conf> to get the servers invoked,
like this:
unix-status stream tcp nowait @@OWNER@@ @@INSTALLDIR@@/unix-status-server unix-status-server
log-server stream tcp nowait @@OWNER@@ @@INSTALLDIR@@/log-server log-server logfile1 logfile2
Or if you're using
L<tcp_wrappers|ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_7.6.BLURB>,
which you should be:
unix-status stream tcp nowait @@OWNER@@ /path/to/tcpd @@INSTALLDIR@@/unix-status-server
log-server stream tcp nowait @@OWNER@@ /path/to/tcpd @@INSTALLDIR@@/log-server logfile1 logfile2
And remember to update C</etc/hosts.allow> to allow your remstats host access.
=item Tell inetd to re-read it's config-file:
kill -HUP pid-of-inetd
=for html <P></P>
=item copy the remstats servers to the machines which will run them
rcp unix-status-server log-server remoteping-server multiping host:@@INSTALLDIR@@
=back 4
=head1 The nt-status-server
This one is a bit different to install. I've only done it under the
L<ActiveState Perl|http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/index.html> under
Windows NT 4.0. Installing the ActiveState Perl is straightforward; if you got here,
you'll have no trouble with that. Installing it as a service is not as simple as I
intended. You'll have to get the SRVANY and INSTSRV programs from the NT Resource Kit,
and follow their instructions. The program that SRVANY will be running is, of course,
perl (usually C<C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe>), and the argument string something like:
c:\wherever\you\put\nt-status-server -s -t10.111.12.13
You'll have to replace C<c:\wherever\you\put> with the path to L<nt-status-server>,
and C<10.111.12.13> with the IP number of the host running the L<nt-status-collector>.
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