Introduction
------------

LibreNMS is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring
which includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating
systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP and
many more.  LibreNMS is a community-based fork of [Observium][9].

We intend LibreNMS to be a viable project and community that:
- encourages contribution,
- focuses on the needs of its users, and
- offers a welcoming, friendly environment for everyone.

The [Debian Social Contract][10] will be the basis of our priority system,
and mutual respect the basis of our behaviour towards others.  For more
about the culture we're trying to build, please read the [Freenode
philosophy][13], including [guidelines for running an IRC channel][6] and
[being a community catalyst][7].


Documentation
-------------

Documentation can be found in the [doc directory][5] or [docs.librenms.org][16], including instructions
for installing and contributing.


Participating
-------------

You can participate in the project by:
- Joining the [librenms-project][1] mailing list to post questions and
  suggestions.
- Talking to us on [Twitter][3] or [IRC][4].
- Improving the [documentation][5].
- Cloning the [repo][2] and filing bug reports and pull requests on github.
  See [CONTRIBUTING][15] for more details.


Try It
------

You can try LibreNMS by downloading a VM image.  Currently, a Ubuntu-based
image is supplied and has been tested with [VirtualBox][8].

Download the [VirtualBox / VMWare image][11] and open it then log in with credentials provided. 
Enter the following commands:

    cd /opt/librenms
    git pull
    php discover.php -h all
    php poller.php -h all

You'll then need to find out the IP of your VM (`ifconfig | grep add`) and
create a DNS entry for `librenms.example.com` to point to that IP.  You can
also edit your `/etc/hosts` file with the following line:

    $ip librenms.example.com

where `$ip` is the IP of your VM.

Add a new user by entering:

    ./adduser.php <username> <password> 10 <email>

replace <username>, <password> and <email> with a username, password and your email address.

From there, just point your web browser
to `http://librenms.example.com/` and login with your new username and password.


License
-------

Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org>

Copyright (C) 2013-2014 by individual LibreNMS contributors

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

[LICENSE.txt][14] contains a copy of the full GPLv3 licensing conditions.

The following additional license conditions apply to LibreNMS (a GPL
exception):

  As a special exception, you have permission to link or otherwise combine
  LibreNMS with the included copies of the following third-party software,
  and distribute modified versions, as long as you follow the requirements
  of the GNU GPL v3 in regard to all of the remaining software (comprising
  LibreNMS).

  Please see [Acknowledgements][17]

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/librenms-project "LibreNMS"
[2]: https://github.com/librenms/librenms "Main LibreNMS GitHub repo"
[3]: https://twitter.com/librenms "@LibreNMS on Twitter"
[4]: irc://irc.freenode.net/##librenms "LibreNMS IRC channel"
[5]: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/tree/master/doc/
[6]: http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml "Freenode channel guidelines"
[7]: http://freenode.net/catalysts.shtml "Freenode community catalysts"
[8]: https://www.virtualbox.org/ "VirtualBox"
[9]: http://observium.org/ "Observium web site"
[10]: http://www.debian.org/social_contract "Debian project social contract"
[11]: http://www.librenms.org/#downloads
[12]: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/tree/master/doc/Observium_Welcome.md
[13]: http://freenode.net/philosophy.shtml "Freenode philosophy"
[14]: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/tree/master/LICENSE.txt
[15]: http://docs.librenms.org/General/Contributing/
[16]: http://docs.librenms.org/
[17]: http://docs.librenms.org/General/Acknowledgement/
