X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?p=sysdb.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=56dde37d9365cbc8ac73939635b6880844140992;hp=20cbce9a8e3160fa0b5c127c0b24aa92b6ac2396;hb=dbb9acafef8927ee2e44b01fea8a8d1aae52cc93;hpb=bf3b8e60b2fdc493c4e04b05ce67abf69ca9a4ff diff --git a/README b/README index 20cbce9..56dde37 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,42 +1,46 @@ - syscollector -- a system management / inventory collection service - ==================================================================== - - “System Collector” (syscollector) is a multi-backend system management and - inventory collection service. It may be used to collect information from - various backends (inventory services, monitoring services, etc.) and - provides a unique interface to access the information independent of the - active backends. This is done by mapping the backend objects to generic - objects and correlating the attributes to create a single hierarchy of your - infrastructure. - - This is free and open source software, licensed under the 2-clause BSD + SysDB -- a system management and inventory collection service + =============================================================== + + “System DataBase” (SysDB) is a multi-backend system management and inventory + collection service. It may be used to (continuously) collect information + about your systems from various backends (inventory services, monitoring + services, etc.) and provides a unique interface to access the information + independent of the active backends. This is done by storing and mapping the + backend objects to generic objects and correlating the attributes to create + a single hierarchical view of your infrastructure. + + SysDB is free and open source software, licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. See COPYING for details. Prerequisites ------------- - To compile the syscollector package from source you need: + To compile the SysDB package from source you need: * A build environment: autotools, libtool, C compiler, ... + * When building from Git, you also need the flex lexical analyzer generator + and bison parser generator (other lex and yacc compatible tools might work + as well if you are lucky). + * A POSIX + Single UNIX Specification compatible C library. - * asciidoc, xsltproc: + * asciidoc, xsltproc, xmlto: The AsciiDoc text document format is used to write the manpages. Configuring / Compiling / Installing ------------------------------------ - To configure, build and install syscollector with the default settings, run + To configure, build and install SysDB with the default settings, run `./configure && make && make install'. For detailed, generic instructions see INSTALL. For a complete list of configure options and their description, run `./configure --help'. - By default, syscollector will be installed into `/opt/syscollector'. You can - adjust this setting by specifying the `--prefix' configure option - see - INSTALL for details. If you pass DESTDIR= to `make install', - will be prefixed to all installation directories. This might be useful when - creating packages for syscollector. + By default, SysDB will be installed into `/opt/sysdb'. You can adjust this + setting by specifying the `--prefix' configure option - see INSTALL for + details. If you pass DESTDIR= to `make install', will be + prefixed to all installation directories. This might be useful when creating + packages for SysDB. Author ------