---
name: "smokeping.cgi"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "smokeping"
version: "2.3.6-5+squeeze1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/smokeping.cgi"
---

# smokeping.cgi(1)

SmokePing webfrontend

## NAME

smokeping.cgi - SmokePing webfrontend

## OVERVIEW

This script acts as a 'website' for your SmokePing monitoring operation. It presents the targets you are looking at in a tree structure and draws graphs as they are required by people looking at the pages.

## DESCRIPTION

To get **smokeping.cgi** going, you need a webserver which allows you to run cgi scripts. The system must be setup so that the **smokeping.cgi** is allowed to write to the image caching area as defined in the config file.

This script runs with normal perl. **BUT** it will appear to be very slow, because it does a lot of things when starting up. So if the script has to be started a fresh on every click, this is both slow and a tough thing for your webserver. I therefore strongly recomment using SpeedyCGI.

Please refer to the installation document for detailed setup instructions.

## SETUP

When installing SmokePing, this file has to be adjusted to fit your local system. Three paths have to be entered.

```
 use lib qw(/usr/pack/rrdtool-1.0.33-to/lib/perl);
```

One pointing to your **rrdtool** installation

```
 use lib qw(/home/oetiker/public_html/smokeping/lib);
```

One pointing to the place where you have installed the SmokePing libraries

```
 use Smokeping;
 Smokeping::cgi("/home/oetiker/.smokeping/config");
```

The third path is the argument to the Smokeping::cgi command. It points to the SmokePing configuration file.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2001 by Tobias Oetiker. All right reserved.

## LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

## AUTHOR

Tobias Oetiker \<tobi@oetiker.ch\>