RIT-iRODS-clients

Client-applications and libraries for iRODS.

Contents

• iping --- iRODS client app for usage in Nagios monitoring. More info on irods.org and Github.
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Usage (compiling)

Follow instructions below to get a working iping binary.

Dependencies: This requires irods-dev and irods-runtime packages installed on your system.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/MaastrichtUniversity/rit-irodsclients.git

cd ~/rit-irodsclients/iping/src
make install

cd ~/rit-irodsclients/iping/build

# execute as user 'irods'
./iping                              
./iping -h icat.example.org -p 1247 

Usage (packaging)

Follow instructions below to package the iping binary in a .deb-package

cd ~/rit-irodsclients 
sudo cp iping/build/iping packaging/rit-irods-clients_1.0.0/usr/bin
sudo dpkg-deb --build packaging/rit-irods-clients_1.0.0

To install the package:

sudo dpkg -i packaging/rit-irods-clients_1.0.0.deb

Confirm installation:

which iping     # should return '/usr/bin/iping'