[smokeping-users] Best approach for minimal slave setup (Rasberrypi)

[ITheodoridis at bankofgreece.gr]

Hello Tobie and friends.
Based on that question from Paul and your answer I would like to add
this as a question/subject for discussion:
After having done an initial proof of concept installation I am planning
to use multiple raspberry pis (debian based minimal pc) as  smokeping
slaves in my institution for distributed polling and measuring
(master-slave setup).
I noticed that when installing from the packages (apt-get install
smokeping) the installation assumes that this will be a smokeping server
and thus installs apache, furthermore it assumes the presence of a mail
server and searches for sendmail, failing at the end of the
installation. I have no problem correcting the last issue by installing
postfix first, however I was wondering if compiling from source is the
only way to avoid all that extra installations in a slave setup. Do you
have a suggestion or a different opinion?

It would be great if in the next version (I am hoping for the current
one) we could have two different packages for smokeping (one for server
and a different one for slave) in the various package databases
(debian/Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE etc). I know it's not for you to fix, just
expressing my wish among peers.

Thank you, 

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Ioannis Theodoridis
Network & Systems Engineer
Network & Telecommunications Support
Informatics
Bank of Greece
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tobias Oetiker [mailto:tobi at oetiker.ch] 
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 3:59 PM
To: Paul Mansfield
Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] status update smokeping-3.x

Hi Paul,

Today Paul Mansfield wrote:

> Hi Tobi
>
> Will the smokeping master be entirely split from the slave?
>
> It is a nuisance at the moment that the slave script won't start 
> unless there are all sorts of bits of perl libraries available which 
> aren't needed to perform the function of a slave, so you end up 
> installing lots of perl which clutters up servers.

You mean dependencies for running probes you are not using ? That is a
possibility. Although, if you look at the 3.x github repo, you will see
that there is now a script supplied that builds all the dependencies, so
handling is much simpler ...

will look into this ...

cheers
tobi



> thanks
> Paul
>
>

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