Installation

Requirements

The requirements will vary dramatically depending on the load of users and events you anticipate. Some of the software requirements are:

• Apache with PHP support

• Perl 5 with DBI and MySQL DBD modules

• MySQL server

• UCD SNMP packages for trap collection support

Obtaining NetworkLens

NetworkLens may be obtained from either of the following locations:

• The SourceForge.net Project Page

• The NetworkLens Home Page

Configuring NetworkLens

To install NetworkLens on a standard RedHat 7.2 system, you must:

1. Unpack the source archive

   $ cd /tmp $ mkdir networklens $ cd networklens $ tar zxvf networklens-0.8.tar.gz

2. Create and populate the MySQL database

   $ cd /tmp/networklens/sql $ mysqladmin -u root create lens $ mysql -u root lens < lens.sql

3. Populate the HTML tree

   $ mkdir /var/www/html/lens $ cd /tmp/networklens/html $ cp -a * /var/www/html/lens/.