Installing and Configuring Sauron

portinstall p5-Net-Netmask p5-Crypt-RC5 p5-IDNA-Punycode p5-Digest-MD5 p5-Digest-SHA1 p5-Digest-HMAC p5-MIME-Base64 p5-Net-DNS p5-Pg p5-DBI p5-DBD-Pg

postgress is needed... so if you set up a new pg server read the readme howto

http://sauron.jyu.fi/pub/sauron/sauron-0.7.2.tar.gz untar ./configure make make docs make install

• 1) Build and install the program (SKIP this if you're installing the RPM):
  • /configure make make docs (optional) make install
  2) Create database for Sauron to use in PostgreSQL
  • (use createdb command to create the database, see PostgreSQL
    • documentation for more help) su - pgsql createdb dbsauron
  3) Edit configuration files: config and config-browser
  • (these are usually in /usr/local/etc/sauron or /etc/sauron) at minimum you need to check paths and setup database connection string (DB_CONNECT)
  4) Create tables in the newly created database:

  • <change to installation directory (/usr/local/sauron)>

  • /createtables
  • /status (check that everything worked)
  5) Populate OUI (Ethernet card manufacturer) table (optional):
  • /import-ethers contrib/Ethernet.txt
  • /import-ethers --force contrib/additional-ether-codes.txt
    • (NOTE! you may want to download IEEE's public list

      • of OUIs from: http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml and import it as well)

    wget http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt

  • /import-ethers oui.txt
  6) Populate global root servers table:

  • wget ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/named.root

  • /import-roots default named.root
    • (NOTE! you should download latest version of this file

      • from: ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/ and use it)

  7) Create administrator account:
  • /adduser --superuser (remember to set superuser flag)
  8) Setup www interface
  • You need to make sauron.cgi and browser.cgi available through your www server. One way to do this is to make symbolic links for sauron.cgi and browser.cgi in your cgi-bin directory. Copy images under icons/ directory to sauron/icons/ directory under your web server root directory (or just make a symbolic link) chown www:www /usr/local/sauron/logs
  9) now you can use the web interface to create a server and zones, or
  • you can import existing named/dhcpd configurations using import/iport-dhcp utilities. Or you can try out the demo database that can be found under test/ directory in source tree.