Deploying Simple Bandwidth Scanner¶
To run sbws is needed:
- A machine to run the scanner.
- One or more destination (s) that serve a large file.
Both the scanner
and your the destination
(s) should be on fast,
well connected machines.
destination requirements¶
- A Web server installed and running that supports HTTP GET, HEAD and
Range (RFC 7233) requests.
Apache
HTTP Server andNginx
support them. - Optional support for TLS
- A large file; at the time of writing, at least 1 GiB in size
scanner setup¶
Install sbws according to ./INSTALL.rst
(or /INSTALL.rst
or Installing Simple Bandwidth Scanner).
To configure destinations, create a configuration file according to
./docs/source/man_sbws.ini.rst
(or /docs/source/man_sbws.ini.rst
or Simple Bandwidth Scanner - SBWS.INI(5) or man sbws.ini
)
See also ./docs/source/man_sbws.rst
(or /docs/source/man_sbws.rst or
Simple Bandwidth Scanner - SBWS(1) or man sbws
) manual page.