README

About

• This is phpRRDBrowse, or in short: prb -
• Author: G. Fontaine

GPL type License

You can use it for free as long as you state the source. See the LICENSE file

Required software:

1. Apache
2. Mysql (if I do a db abstraction layer, you can choose any database you like.)
3. rrdtool > rrdtool-1.2.10
4. PHP with:
   • apxs
   • sigchild
   • pcntl
   • rrdtool
   • snmp
   • CLI
5. PEAR packages:
   • DB
   • XML_Parser
   • MDB2? (to be added: database abstraction layer... which one?? Is it really the best way?)
6. Extras
   • Admin panel, authentication, etc...

Installation

1. Unpack into dir
2. Edit etc/prbconfig.php
3. Create missing dirs (log, rrd, www/png)
4. check file access mods (webserver must write in rrd, log and www/png)
5. create prbdb database in mysql (use prbsql.txt)
6. Setup crontab to poll every 5 mins with prbupdated

Features:

• browse by OS, vendor, location
• host filter
• host and module Info box with editing
• custom sql views
• editing of info records
• look and feel customisable via css stylesheet
• simple polling performance statistics

Todo:

• installation script
• improve host discovery and add manual host configuration for none snmp enabled hosts
• documentation installation guide user manual developpers guide (module dev how-to)

More stuff to add:

• form validation
• users, authentication and user management
• database abstraction layer
• templates (css based)
• labels
• advanced search
• error logging to file or database