To Install The IRLPvMon Monitor, Your IRLP Computer Requires The Following Prior To Installation:

• A Working IRLP Node Is Installed
• The Apache HTTPD Webserver Is Installed
• The Perl Interpreter Package Is Installed

If your system is running Fedora Core 3 or 5, you probably have YUM installed and can use it to install Apache HTTPD and Perl. To install these packages using YUM, type the following commands as user root and follow directions.

yum install httpd

yum install perl

Note: The loading and installation of these programs can require a bit of time.

If your system does not have YUM installed (Redhat 7.3 or 9), you will need to get and install the Apache and Perl programs yourself. Information about these programs is available at these websites.

www.apache.org

www.perl.com

Once Apache and Perl are installed on your IRLP Node computer, you are ready to proceed with the download and installation.

Note: The installation will perform several modifications to the Apache server and IRLP scripts which the installation program will explain. You will have the option to cancel the installation if these operations are not desired.

Note: That This Installation Will Overwrite Any Existing IRLPvMon Installation Including Any IRLPvMon Custom Pages Or Modifications you may have made.

Note: By downloading this package you are accepting the terms of the agreement at the end of this document.

To Download and Install the latest version of IRLPvMon, Login as user root on your IRLP computer and then enter the following three commands:

wget -nd -nc k6ib.com/downloads/k6ib-load-a
chmod +x k6ib-load-a
./k6ib-load-a irlpvmon

After the installation is completed, you will need to setup you nodes Frequency, PL Tone and Echolink Node Number if EchoIRLP is installed. To do this, as user root, type the following command and follow directions.

/var/www/irlpvutil/VMON_SETUP

Note: This utility may be used anytime to change your nodes information.

To access IRLPvMon point your browser to

your-ip-address/irlpvmon

!! Be Aware: If you have installed the IRLP remote admin program, Apache has been set to listen on port 15426. If that is the case All Browser Calls to the Apache server Must be made with that port number.
  Example:
  http://your-ip-address:15426/irlpvmon

After installation additional information on IRLPvMon and the included utilities can be found by pointing your browser to:

your-ip-address/irlpvmon/help

I hope you will find IRLPvMon a usefull tool on your IRLP node.
If you encounter problems or have questions or comments, let me know.
Please include the word "irlpvmon" in the subject line of any E-Mails.

 Brent - K6IB
 IRLP: 3173

If the connection information does not display and the node already had the scripts "custom_on" & "custom_off" installed for other operations it is possible that the new lines for IRLPvMon were not placed in a location where they would be executed. To fix this problem, make sure the lines below are located in their respective script file where they will always be executed and not after an Exit statement or in a Conditional Section.

Make sure that the line
/var/www/irlpvutil/vstat_on $1
in the /home/irlp/custom/custom_on file Will Always Be Executed.

and the line:
/var/www/irlpvutil/vstat_off
in the /home/irlp/custom/custom_off file Will Always Be Executed