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SLB README
Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 Sergey Poznyakoff
See the end of file for copying conditions.

* Introduction

This file contains brief information about configuring and installing
SLB. It is *not* intended as a replacement for the documentation, and
is provided as a brief reference only.  The complete documentation for
Mailfromd is available in doc/ subdirectory in both manpage and
texinfo formats.  The latter is authoritative.  To read it without
installing the package run `info -f doc/slb.info'.  After the package
is installed the documentation can be accessed via `info slb'.

An online copy of the documentation in various formats is available
at http://slb.man.gnu.org.ua.

* Overview

SLB stands for "Simple Load Balancer".  The utility monitors a
set of remote servers, obtaining a set of numeric values via SNMP.
These values are used to compute a single floating-point number,
called a "relative load" for that server.  The servers are then sorted
in order of increasing loads and the resulting table is printed (using
a configurable format string) to a file or pipe.

* Prerequisites

This package requires Net-SNMP version 5.5 or newer (http://www.net-snmp.org).

* Installation

Configure and make:

   ./configure [OPTIONS]
   make
   make install
  
See the file INSTALL for the description of ./configure and its
generic options.

Options and variables, specific for SLB are:

  --without-preprocessor  disables the use of external preprocessor for
                          SLB configuration file.

By default, "m4 -s" is assumed.  You can change this by setting the
environment variable DEFAULT_PREPROCESSOR to the desired preprocessor
name (with command line arguments).

* Bug reporting.		

Send bug reports to <gray+slb@gnu.org.ua>. 


* Copyright information:

Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 Sergey Poznyakoff

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   Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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