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> > Now the problems:<BR>> ><BR>> > a. What is the fix for this issue? I don't believe everyone is<BR>> > using it like that. The purpose of graphing... is so that we do<BR>> > not need to read the fine print. When I looked at that graph, I<BR>> > was to have a heart attack. How can I show something like this to<BR>> > my boss? I use cacti as well and I don't have this problem.<BR>> > Nothing is clear from these graphs beyond a day.<BR>> <BR>> you should, because loss is BAD, it should not happen, hence the<BR>> choice of consolidation function ...<BR>
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So there is not a single functional host out of the 30-40 listed on the demo site? Because all of them are FULL BLUE in 400 days graphs.<BR>
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Just because there is 1% loss in 1 out of the 144 probes run does not mean that entire day should be marked as having packet loss.<BR>
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There is some flaw here and those graphs surely would look bad to anyone who looks at them. But just 400 packets out of the 6 Million or so were dropped in fact. <BR>
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Is there any way I can fix those by taking aggregates or averages or something else?<BR>
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> > b. The UI needs serious improvements. 70% of my screen is empty.<BR>> > Why not to plug in 4 graphs there?<BR>> <BR>> I am planning on moving smokeping to extopus, see www.extopus.org<BR>> if you are in a position to provide resources for this project, let<BR>> me know ...<BR>
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It has potential. Unfortunately, I am just a worker.<BR>
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<BR>> > c. What is Speedy CGI? I had hard time trying to find it let<BR>> > alone being able to install it?<BR>> <BR>> smokeping 2.6.x does not need speedycgi anymore ... it uses<BR>> fastcgi ... where did you see the speedycgi requirement ?<BR>
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SpeedyCGI requirement was still there in 2011 even though last version of that software was abandoned 9 years ago! It is still coming with the Fedora SmokePing RPM released in 2011.<BR>
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<BR>> > e. I had to install 42 rpms to get this working! I had to take 3<BR>> > srpms from Fedora and recompile them on Redhat 6. Take Fedora<BR>> > SmokePing RPM, recompile on Redhat. Yet, I still have version<BR>> > 2.4.2. I spent 2 days. This doesn't have to be so painful!<BR>> <BR>> you should not be using an old version ... bad for the karma ...<BR>> 2.6.x has autoconf support ...<BR>
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Tobi, very few people run software with autoconf any more. I did run it. And it installed about 200 dependencies (thankfully to /opt/smokebin). I just needed Config::Grammar! <BR>
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I had to edit one file. I had to edit another. I had to modify some more. I had to change permissions... Then I had to write an initscript to start it... That is why we have RPM to take care of these stuff for us. It quickly got tiring so I powered off the non-persistent VM and installed 2.4.2 from Fedora RPMs.<BR>
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RPM approach is something that should be considered for widespread adoptation of sofware.<BR>
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