Installing PingER2

First check the requirements. You may also want to look at the Overview.
Download the production version pinger 2.0.7 or type
wget http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/tools/pinger-2.0.7.tar.gz

To make the files, type:

tar xzf pinger-2.0.7.tar.gz
cd pinger-2.0.7
./configure
make test_prereqs
make

Then as the root user, type

make install
make install_cron

Update pinger2.pl to the latest version supporting IPv6 etc.

wget 'http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/mon/tool/pinger2.pl' and replace pinger2.pl in /usr/local/share/pinger/pinger2.pl

Verify installation

To see if the cronjob is running look at the dates on the files /usr/local/share/pinger/pingerCronStat.stdout and /usr/local/share/pinger/pingerCronStat.stderr, they should be within the last 30 mins.
Examine the above files (in particular the stderr file) to verify pinger2.pl is properly configured. Also you may want to look at the date on the latest file in /usr/local/share/pinger/data/, and cat the contents.

Read the README file for full details. If all goes well, in less than about 30 minutes you should see data in /usr/local/share/pinger/data.

Known Bugs

There are currently no known bugs.