Karma - Installation Guide
At this time, unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to build an install script. Partly this is because I haven't completely thought out how it should be installed. Eventually karma will include a standard perl install script.
Currently, following the directions in the Quickstart Guide
should explain to you how to get started. See the Configuration Guide
for more information on how to create a
read-only user
for karma in your database, to
edit the karma.conf file
, or to use the karmagentd to
monitor the alertlog
and uptime statistics on your remote database.
Yes, you can use karma with a webserver, but there isn't too much you need
to do on the karma end of things. Basically karma generates a set of html
pages. These by default go into ``doc_root'' in the karma software
directory, but this path can be changed via the -k
option to karmad when you start it. Specify a valid path, and it will write
the files there. Be sure to move the existing karma documentsfrom doc_root
to that location, and create directories named ``docs'',``help'',
``images'', and ``info'' there as well.
Installing perl has become *MUCH* easier over the years, so don't be so afraid of installing it on your own system. You can install it from
source
binaries
Installing on linux systems (most of which come with perl anyway) is often as simple as:
$ gunzip < stable.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd perl5.005_03
$ ./configure
$ make
and as root$ make install
It's pretty straightforward on most machines where Perl is already
installed. Download the latest DBD-Oracle from your favorite
CPAN Site
, then follow these steps:
$ gunzip < DBI-1.13.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd DBI-1.13
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
then as root:
$ make install
It's pretty straightforward on most machines where Perl is already
installed. Download the latest DBD-Oracle from your favorite
CPAN Site
, set your environment variables ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, be sure $ORACLE_HOME/bin is in your path, and that $ORACLE_HOME/lib is in your library path then followthese steps:
$ gunzip < DBD-Oracle-1.03.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd DBD-Oracle-1.03
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
then as root:
$ make install
Of course, none of this would be complete without an Oracle database to
connect to. Installing Oracle, however, is really beyond the scope of this
document. You can find useful documentation at
technet
though you'll need to register first. It's free. In addition, you can find
linux specific installation instructions here.