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FAQ for remstats
    1 What is remstats?
        Remstats is a system of programs to:

        gather network accessible data via SNMP and its own servers,
        store and maintain the data for long periods,
        produce graphs and web-pages tieing them together
        monitor the data for anomalous behaviour and issue alerts

    2 Where can I get it?
        The latest stable version is 1.0.9b. You can get it at
        <http://remstats.sourceworks.com:1954/release/src/remstats-1.0.9b.ta
        r.gz>. The current development version is 1.0.9b. You can find it
        with all the other versions in the source archive. As most of it is
        perl scripts, there is no binary version.

    3 What...?
        Just a sec, there's lots of documentation online on how to set this
        up. You found the FAQ and that's good, but in order to get remstats
        installed and configured, you're going to have to read at least the
        prerequisites, and installation sections and all their sub-sections.
        Go do that now before bothering to read the rest of this FAQ. You'll
        need to do it anyway and it ought to answer most of the questions
        about getting going. Complain if it doesn't.

        If you'd prefer to print something and read it offline, you can look
        at book.ps or book.pdf. Note: The pdf translation is really slow
        loading. Be patient.

        We now return you to your regularly scheduled FAQ.

  Miscellaneous
    This is only a proto-faq, covering the things I couldn't figure out
    where else to put.

    1 snmp-collector complains that I don't have SNMP_Session installed, but
    I don't want SNMP. Do I have to collect and install it?
        No you don't. Modify the "collectors" line in the general
        config-file to exclude snmp.

    2 I modified the RRD definition, adding a new RRA, but remstats is
    ignoring it. How do I do this?
        Sorry. At the moment, remstats won't propagate any changes to the
        RRD structure after creation. Some changes, like extending RRAs and
        changing min/max for DSs can be done manually with rrdtool. If you
        do use rrdtool manually, I recommend that you modify the rrd
        definition as well, to keep them in sync. At some point in the
        future, I'd like to try to do this kind of update, and it's more
        likely to succeed if remstats' rrd definition matches what's in the
        actual RRD.

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    Last updated Sam Okt 26 22:37:42 CEST 2002 by <erskine-remstats@sourceworks.com>.

