Below are bulletted instructions for preparing you system for a CoyMon
installation.

1. Creating a User Account

    * Decide on the account from which CoyMon will run.
    * We recommend a dedicated shell account for ease in managabilty and
      security.
    * I you need to create that account, do so.
    * Log in to the shell account that will be running whatever component of
      CoyMon you will be installing now.

2. Setting the Environment

    * Decide on the base directory (PREFIX) for the CoyMon install.
    * Edit the appropirate profile for your CoyMon user (e.g., .bash_profile,
      .profile) to include an updated line at the bottom:
        export PATH=/desired/coymon/basepath/bin:$PATH
    * Source the file so that you have the updated PATH in your environment.
      For instance, if you are running a typical Linux bash:
        . .~/.bash_profile

2.1 System

    * Make sure that you have Subversion installed on your system and that svn
      is in the path
    * Make sure that you have either curl or wget in your path
    * Make sure that you have Perl 5.8.x installed on your system (for now; in
      version 3, Perl dependencies are going away).
    * Make sure that you gcc and related development libraries and headers
      installed
    * Make sure that the dirname utility is installed on your system
    * Make sure that GNU sed is installed on your system
    * If you are using your system python:
        o be sure it's version 2.4.3 or above (and less than 2.6)
        o be sure it has support for zlib
        o be sure your system has the Python development package installed
        o be sure your CoyMon shell account has permissions to install system
          python libs
    * If you will be using CoyMon's python, then you need zlib installed on
      your system

2.2 CoyoteMonitoring

    * The CoyMon installer uses the prefix '/usr/local/coymon' by default; if
      you want to install CoyMon in another location, you will use the the
      following option:
        --prefix=/your/desired/path
    * Make sure that the prefix path exists
    * Make sure that the prefix path is owned by the coymon user
    * Make sure that PREFIX/bin is in your path

3. Network Information and Considerations

    3.1 CoyMon Ports

        By default, the following ports are used by CoyMon:

    3.x Firewalls

4. Installation

    You are now ready to procede to the INSTALL file.

    Enjoy!