perl
the software has been tested with 5.6.1 and should work
with most other versions of perl 5 as well.
Find perl at www.perl.org
Note: there are issues with some versions of perl on some operating systems, see bugs.html for additional details.
sendmail and qpage
are recommended. either or both can be used to send
notifications.
Find sendmail at www.sendmail.org
Find qpage at www.qpage.org
Note: this does not need to be the real sendmail, as long as it looks and smells like sendmail. ie. qmail's sendmail compatible sendmail program will be just fine.
fping is used by the Ping Monitoring module
for ping tests. While this is not required, it is
highly recommended.
Find fping at www.fping.com
a cgi capable web server, such as apache.
Find apache at httpd.apache.org
Berkeley DB and perl DB_File
Find DB at www.sleepycat.com
DB_File ships with perl.
Alternatively, ndbm, odbm, sdbm, or gdbm can be used, but they have not been extensively tested.
an understanding of UNIX file permissions and how to use and operate your web server.