Installing, Part 2 - Advanced

After verifying that everything works with a basic setup, there are some optional steps that may or may not be useful.

Additional Perl Modules

• optionally, argus can use a mod_perl capable web server.
  Find mod_perl at perl.apache.org

• optionally, Socket6.pm, an IPv6 capable fping, and an OS that supports it are required for IPv6 support.
  Find Socket6 at CPAN
  IPv6 support is available only in version 3.2 and later

• optionally, GD.pm and its various dependencies are required for graphing support.
  Find GD.pm at stein.cshl.org
  Graphing support is available only in version 3.2 and later

• optionally, if Time::HiRes is available, argus can make use of its more precise time reporting.
  Time::HiRes comes with some versions of perl, or may be found at CPAN

• optionally, Net::SSLeay.pm and the OpenSSL library are required for extended SSL tests.
  Find Net::SSLeay at CPAN
  Find OpenSSL at www.openssl.org
  Extended SSL support is available only in version 3.3 and later

• optionally, in order to support SNMPv3 authentication and privacy, argus requires Digest::MD5, Digest::SHA1, Digest::HMAC, and Crypt::DES
  Find all of these at CPAN
  SNMPv3 support is available only in version 3.3 and later

Advanced Web Server Config

optionally, after verifying that everything works as a basic cgi-bin, customize and fine-tune your web server.

You will need to consult the documentation for your web server, these examples probably won't work as is.

• optionally, adjust your httpd.conf to provide an alias or a virtual server, some suggestions:
  • alias /argus -> /cgi-bin/arguscgi
    access it as: www.example.com/argus
  • create virt server,
    alias / -> /cgi-bin/arguscgi, or use redirect, etc
    access it as argus.example.com/
• optionally set up mod_perl
  exact configuration details will vary, but something like:

                  PerlRequire /.../arguscgi
                  <Location /argus>
                      SetHandler   perl-script
                      PerlHandler  Argus::Web
                      allow from all
                  </Location>
  		

  You might like to know that the author swears by combining a virtual server along with mod_perl:

  		<VirtualHost *>
  		    ServerName	argus.example.com
  		    <Location />
  		        SetHandler   perl-script 
  		        PerlHandler  Argus::Web
  		        allow from all
  		    </Location>
  		</VirtualHost>