Cricket installation on Centos 5 and plesk 9.1

Dear List members,

I was using Cricket in several companies over the years and was very happy as well as my boss. Recently we
migrated into new server and I was assigned to duplicate all of older server services and one of them was
transferring our cricket network monitoring software.
It took me agonizing three days to make the cricket work and I found that documentation is outdated and there
is changes in the software world that are not reflected in installation.
Changes that i did not like was:
1. RRD tool homepage http://oss.oetiker.ch/ does not mention cricket in list of software yet MRTG and
cacti are listed.
2. cpan does not have SNMP_Session and RDD packages anymore
3. Last time anyone submitted new script configuration was in 2003
4. Cricket is not available in yum repositories and generally for Fedora core and Redhat distributions

I love cricket and I am see all above as signs of early demise and would like to help.
Over the years I configured several devices that is not listed in your config tree and those are cisco and
quintum VOIP devices I like to contribute but don't know where and to whom.
Lets bring cricket back and se it florish.
I wrote down in few words what I did (eventually) to be able installing cricket on Centos5 with plesk control
panel 9.1 (latest and greatest as of April 2009).
Here is the list:
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1. Get Cricket and unzip it
2. mv cricket-1.05 /usr/local/cricket
3. cd /usr/local/cricket
4. cp cricket-conf.pl.sample cricket-conf.pl
5. vi cricket-conf.pl

$gCricketHome = "/usr/local/";
$gInstallRoot = "$gCricketHome/cricket";