[rtg] Source code download

[Quigley, Mark R]

Good day,
Thanks for Matt and Aaron's reply about getting rated. Building RTG has
turned into quite a time sink. My initial exposure to RTG was a Fedora
box our director built and hacked together RTG 0.8.1 (with a memory leak
in rtgpoll). All I had to do was kick rtgpoll once a week and things
were fine. Then, a security audit revealed apache vulnerabilities and
graphs broke when I updated apache (I've since learned how to chcon the
web directory to fix that).

My manager was kind enough to get me a nice big new vm with licensed RH
Linux (and backups) and I've begun to build a new RTG box.
Unfortunately, I am still having trouble locating source.

I successfully located and deployed 0.7.4 and found the graphs look
awful. I located the 0.8.1 directory my director was working from,
make'd it, and found that you can't just drop that in on top of the
0.7.4 install (db schema differences). I restored a snapshot (before
0.7.4) and went straight to the 0.8.1 directory my director was working
from and found it is incomplete (missing pm's, rtgtargmkr.pl doesn't
like the format of the rtg.conf, rtgpoll doesn't like the targets.cfg
from rtgtargmkr.pl). I had tried bringing targetmaker-0.8.8 in but it
also does not drop in nicely (no install script/instructions, references
to Apache2, etc.). I won't try to get to rated until I have a working
poll/graph solution.

Hopefully, my story does not bring back too many bad memories, but, I
liked the output we were getting from 0.8.1 (the director had hacked
together some customer web pages for quick reporting). I would like to
be able to get a tarball (or some reasonable facsimile)  and
configure/make/install it. The mysql stuff doesn't scare me nor does the
apache. I'm thinking the 0.8.1 directory I have is incomplete and thus
will take more time than it is worth... my time is better spent trying
to locate some 0.8.x (unhacked) on the net.

Am I living in a dream world where a working RTG (above 0.7.4) is not
attainable? Is there a complete 0.8.x build (poll and graphing)
available that works with modern perl and apache? I really appreciate
the work y'all are doing to locate bugs and the effort to consolidate
under rtg2.  honestly think this is very funny.

Have a good weekend.
Regards,
Mark

Mark Quigley
Network Planning Analyst, IRM Data Communications
(509) 252-6728 desk
(509) 768-5845 cell
http://www.inhs.org/

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