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NAME
    Karma - Readme

DESCRIPTION
    To get started with karma, first edit a config file. For starters, use
    the basic.conf file. Edit it for the databases you'd like to connect to.

    Next set the $KARMA_HOME environment variable. This specifies where
    karma will look for the karma.conf file (otherwise it will look in the
    current directory). Also, karma will store the .karma.pid, and
    .karmafifo files here.

    Next start karmad running. You can use the -h option for help, or just
    start it like this:

    `$ bin/karmactl -s -c karma.conf'
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
    See the quickstart document for more information about getting started.
    See the config guide for information on configuration of karma in
    general, and the karma.conf file in particular. See the install guide
    for more info on installation.

FILE DESCRIPTIONS
karmactl
    start, stop, and query a running karmad daemon. use -h option for help

karmad
    main karma utility. You probably won't run this directly.

karma.pm
    common code for karmad, karmactl, and karmagentd.

karmagentd
    Run this on each target machine for which you want to monitor the
    alert.log and OS stats.

basic.conf
    This is the simplest of karma config files. Edit it to get started.

prefgroups.conf
    This config file demonstrates how to use preference groups with karma.

karma.conf
    A well documented fully featured karma config file.

doc_root/images
    images needed by the html files

doc_root/help
    directory containing static html help files

doc_root/info
    directory which will contain more info files, giving information about
    the particular statistic, and it's status.

doc_root/docs
    Online html documentation for karma.

sql/karma_user.sql
    auxillary sql script for creating a special read-only "karma" user to
    run the tool as.

sql/karma_objs.sql
    auxillary sql script for creating additional objects
    KARMA_ALERTLOG_ERRORS, and KARMA_OS_STATS for collecting info on the
    database server

doc_root
    This is the document root where your html files will be generated. If
    you're going to use karma with a webserver, put this in your web
    doc_root, perhaps naming it karma. Use the -k option to karmactl to
    specify it's location, or the doc_root directive in your config file.