Deploying Simple Bandwidth Scanner

To run sbws is needed:

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 and Nginx 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.