Karma - Installation Guide

- NAME
- Standard Install
- General Instructions
- Using Karma with a webserver
- Installing Perl
- Installing DBI
- Installing DBD-Oracle
- Installing Oracle

# NAME

Karma - Installation Guide

# Standard Install

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.

# General Instructions

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.

# Using Karma with a webserver

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

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`

# Installing DBI

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`

# Installing DBD-Oracle

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`

# Installing Oracle

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.