Rrdtool

RRDTool

NOTE: RHEL5 may already have all or some of packages described below, run yum first to check.

pkg-config-0.23

./configure --prefix=/www/pkgconfig0.23
make
make install

glib-2.18.4

PKG_CONFIG=/www/pkgconfig0.23/bin/pkg-config ./configure --prefix=/www/glib2.18.4
make
make install

pixman-0.14.0

./configure --prefix=/www/pixman0.14.0
make
make install

libpng-1.2.35

./configure --prefix=/www/libpng1.2.35
make
make install

freetype-2.3.8

./configure --prefix=/www/freetype2.3.8
make
make install

fontconfig-2.6.0

./configure --prefix=/www/fontconfig2.6.0 --with-freetype-config=/www/freetype2.3.8/bin/freetype-config
make
make install

cairo-1.8.6

PKG_CONFIG=/www/pkgconfig0.23/bin/pkg-config \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/www/pixman0.14.0/lib/pkgconfig:/www/libpng1.2.35/lib/pkgconfig:\
/www/freetype2.3.8/lib/pkgconfig:/www/fontconfig2.6.0/lib/pkgconfig \
./configure --prefix=/www/cairo1.8.6
make
make install

cairo (version 1.8.6 [release]) will be compiled with:
The following surface backends:
  Image:         yes (always builtin)
  Xlib:          yes
  Xlib Xrender:  yes
  Quartz:        no (requires CoreGraphics framework)
  Quartz-image:  no (disabled, use --enable-quartz-image to enable)
  XCB:           no (disabled, use --enable-xcb to enable)
  Win32:         no (requires a Win32 platform)
  OS2:           no (disabled, use --enable-os2 to enable)
  PostScript:    yes
  PDF:           yes
  SVG:           yes
  glitz:         no (disabled, use --enable-glitz to enable)
  BeOS:          no (disabled, use --enable-beos to enable)
  DirectFB:      no (disabled, use --enable-directfb to enable)
The following font backends:
 User:          yes (always builtin)
 FreeType:      yes
 Win32:         no (requires a Win32 platform)
 Quartz:        no (requires CoreGraphics framework)
The following functions:
 PNG functions: yes
And the following internal features:
 gcov support:  no
 test surfaces: no (disabled, use --enable-test-surfaces to enable)
 ps testing:    yes
 pdf testing:   no (requires poppler-glib >= 0.9.2)
 svg testing:   no (requires librsvg-2.0 >= 2.15.0)

pango-1.20.5

CPPFLAGS=-I/www/cairo1.8.6/include/cairo PKG_CONFIG=/www/pkgconfig0.23/bin/pkg-config \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/www/glib2.18.4/lib/pkgconfig:/www/cairo1.8.6/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --with-CAIRO --prefix=/www/pango1.20.5
make
make install

NOTE: --with-CAIRO does not work, have to modify configure manually setting have_cairo=true

rrdtool-1.3.6

LDFLAGS=-L/www/pango1.20.5/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/www/pango1.20.5/include/pango-1.0/pango PKG_CONFIG=/www/pkgconfig0.23/bin/pkg-config PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/www/pixman0.14.0/lib/pkgconfig:/www/libpng1.2.35/lib/pkgconfig:/www/cairo1.8.6/lib/pkgconfig:/www/pango1.20.5/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/www/rrdtool1.3.6

RRDTool for MRTG - was never used

Installation on clonweb to /www as root:

mkdir /www/rrdtool1.2.23
chown mrtg:mrtg /www/rrdtool1.2.23
cp /usr/local/downloads/rrdtool-1.2.23.tar.gz /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src
gunzip rrdtool-1.2.23.tar.gz
tar xvf rrdtool-1.2.23.tar
cd rrdtool-1.2.23
./configure  --prefix=/www/rrdtool1.2.23
make
make install

Add following lines to mrtg.cfg to help MRTG to find rrdtool:

 LogFormat: rrdtool
 PathAdd: /www/rrdtool1.2.23/bin
 LibAdd: /www/rrdtool1.2.23/lib/perl/5.8.5

NOTE: I did not do it but if you want to install to /usr/local does not create anything in /www and configure as following:

./configure  --prefix=/usr/local

To see rrd file's contents use 'rrdtool', for example:

/www/rrdtool1.2.25/bin/rrdtool fetch /www/mrtg2.15.2/share/logs/server-cpu.rrd  AVERAGE

IMPORTANT: after switching to rrdtool, mrtg will NOT update web graphs any more; to do that CGI scripts must be used. Some examples of those scripts can be found at [1] and [2]. I installed mrtg-rrd-0.7. Script was installed into Apache's cgi-bin directory and slightly modified by setting actual mrtg location including RRDs.pm:

 use lib '/www/rrdtool1.2.25/lib/perl/5.8.5'; 
BEGIN { @config_files = qw(/www/mrtg2.15.2/etc/mrtg.cfg); }

Also, option '--lazy' was removed to enforce every minute update. Also old *.png were removed, they were owned by 'mrtg', new *.png will be written by 'apache'. To see graphes type http://clonmon.jlab.org/cgi-bin/mrtg-rrd.cgi.