Chapter 1. Installing and Using Splat

Table of Contents

Installation
Prerequisites
Installing with the Python Distutils
Configuring Splat
splat.conf
Running Splat
splatd

Installation

Prerequisites

Splat depends on the following components:

Also, to use the OpenNMS plugin, the following additional components must be installed:

Installing with the Python Distutils

Splat uses the standard Python distutils. To install, simply run setup.py:

./setup.py install

The Splat library will be installed in the Python site-packages directory. The splatd daemon will be installed in the Python-specified bin directory. An example configuration file, splat.conf, is supplied with the source distribution.

Note

The Splat daemon will be installed in the bin directory as specific by Python. On certain operating systems, this may not be what you expect. For example, Mac OS X might install splatd in /Library/Python/2.3/bin. Feel free to move the binary after the installation is complete.