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 # rrdproxy
-RRDTool Proxy
+
+Cacti RRD Proxy is a standalone proxy interface to Tobi Oetiker's great RRDTool.
+Main focus of this project is to allow a relocation of RRD files including data replication,
+support of Cacti Boost as well as the RRDcached daemon.
+RRDtool proxy allows to split Cacti into more different components (for really big installations) without
+the need for NFS. And it will be natively supported by the upcoming major release 1.0 of Cacti.
+
+Due the fact that we are talking about critical file transactions RRDtool proxy only supports 
+high encrypted connections (RSA2048 + AES192) with continuously changing keys between
+the proxy and registered clients / proxies.
+
+Over a local service port administrators are able to access a separate command line interface
+that allows to configure and debug the proxy.
+
+
+## Contribute
+
+Get involved in development by participating in active development on
+[GitHub](https://github.com/Cacti/rrdproxy/).
+
+
+## Requirements
+
+Cacti should be able to run on any Unix-based operating system with
+the following requirements:
+
+- Linux only
+- PHP 5.4+, 7.1+ recommended
+- RRDTool 1.5+, 1.6+ recommended
+
+PHP Must also be compiled as a standalone CLI binary including modules for SOCKETS, POSIX, PCNTL, GNU GMP, OPENSSL and ZLIB.
+
+
+## Usage
+At the first go you will automatically run through a setup routine (-w).
+
+ php rrdtool-proxy.php --help
+
+ RRDtool Proxy v1.0
+ Copyright (C) 2004-2017 The Cacti Group
+ usage: rrdtool-proxy.php [--wizard] [-w] [--version] [-v]
+ Optional:
+ -v --version   - Display this help message
+ -w --wizard    - Start Configuration Wizard
+
+
+## Command Line Interface
+Use '?' to get a list of all commands being supported by the proxy or hints about missing parameters.
+
+telnet localhost 40303
+Trying 127.0.0.1...
+Connected to localhost.
+Escape character is '^]'.
+rrdp>?
+  enable          Turn on privileged commands
+  help            Display help
+  show            Show running system information
+  quit            Close terminal session
+
+rrdp>ena
+rrdp#sh version
+
+#     ___           _   _     __    __    ___     ___
+#    / __\__ _  ___| |_(_)   /__\  /__\  /   \   / _ \_ __ _____  ___   _
+#   / /  / _` |/ __| __| |  / \// / \// / /\ /  / /_)/ '__/ _ \ \/ / | | |
+#  / /__| (_| | (__| |_| | / _  \/ _  \/ /_//  / ___/| | | (_) >  <| |_| |
+#  \____/\__,_|\___|\__|_| \/ \_/\/ \_/___,'   \/    |_|  \___/_/\_\__, |
+#                                                                   |___/
+
+ RRDtool Proxy v1.0
+ Copyright (C) 2004-2017 The Cacti Group
+ rrdp uptime is 14 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes, 14 seconds
+ Memory usage 0.18872917 % (2026464/1073741824 in bytes)
+ a8:29:6a:b7:5d:be:c3:8a:be:13:7a:61:ee:0c:8b:d3
+ Process ID: 13996
+ Session usage (1/399)
+
+ Server IP [192.168.10.10]
+ Administration: [localhost       :40303]
+ Replication:    [192.168.10.10   :40302]
+ Clients:        [192.168.10.10   :40301]
+
+rrdp#
+
+
+## Missing features
+
+- Data replication has been completed to 95%, but is still not ready
+- NET-SNMP pass persistent daemon and MIB needs to written to make proxy stats available through SNMP