Installs torrus-common and configures it for operation together with the apache 2.x web server and mod_perl. apache 2.x will be restarted during installation of torrus-apache2. this method is deprecated, you should use torrus-common with the fastcgi-interface for new installations.

torrus is designed to be a universal front-end framework for round-robin databases using tobias oetiker's rrdtool. it may be configured to collect and monitor arbitrary data series from various data sources which can in turn be displayed on a web page served by the apache web server.

one of the traditional applications of this functionality is the collection and visualization of network information using the simple network management protocol (snmp) from snmp-enabled devices.

torrus has been formerly known as rrfw, round-robin database framework.