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<i style="color:#555555; font-size:11px">On Nov 12, 2013 @ 05:32 pm, smokeping-users-request@lists.oetiker.ch wrote:</i>
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<br /><br /><br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Message: 1<br />Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:28:15 +0100<br />From: Paul Mansfield <paul.mansfield+smokeping@grapeshot.co.uk><br />Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] (no subject)<br />To: smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br />Message-ID:<br /> <CAHYeK0dET7yorU2h5nJExNRTc7dTnt-m3gaQiE9BwWSktY=iOQ@mail.gmail.com><br />Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br /><br />the smokeping master host configuration is very fragile, and a mistake<br />in one place doesn't always show up at the point of the error but can<br />break the part below.<br /><br />the only solution is to comment out chunks of the config until the<br />error goes away and then re-introduce things a line or two at a time.<br /><br />just to add to the misery, if a slave is running in debug mode I have<br />found that it will lock up when the master's configuration changes.<br /><br />On 8 July 2013 12:22
, Dharmapriya Thusitha <thusitha555@gmail.com> wrote:<br />> but in this example ,(go to this link)-><br />> https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/smokeping-users/2002-July/000253.html<br />> it has device name as<br />><br />> 'hosting.com Colocation'<br />><br />> so it has "." and " " .but they says the error is only the " " , not the<br />> "." .how could be it happen .then<br />><br />> why ip address gives an error "unknown section" to me.<br />><br />><br />><br />> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Dharmapriya Thusitha <thusitha555@gmail.com><br />> wrote:<br />>><br />>> hi,<br />>> In smokeping ,it uses ++/[-_0-9a-zA-Z]+/ types of device names.so i cant<br />>> add ip address as the device name .it gives an error." ERROR:<br />>> /etc/smokeping/devices/xx.xx.xx.xx, line 1: unknown section '"xx.xx.xx.xx.<br />>> and
i have 5000 agents to monitor. because of this problem ,it is very hard<br />>> to change the names of those devices.give me an solution<br />>><br />>><br />>> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Paul Mansfield<br />>> <paul.mansfield+smokeping@grapeshot.co.uk> wrote:<br />>>><br />>>> On 8 July 2013 10:00, Dharmapriya Thusitha <thusitha555@gmail.com> wrote:<br />>>> > and i have 5000 agents to monitor. because of this problem ,it is very<br />>>> > hard<br />>>> > to change the names of those devices.give me an solution<br />>>><br />>>> I'd recommend programmatically generating something you can add to<br />>>> /etc/hosts file or DNS, as well as generating the smokeping<br />>>> configuration.<br />>>><br />>>> If you have that many hosts you must be using some sort of automated<br />>>> deployment and monitoring alread
y so you can get the list of IPs from<br />>>> that.<br />>>><br />>>> _______________________________________________<br />>>> smokeping-users mailing list<br />>>> smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br />>>> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users<br />>><br />>><br />><br /><br /><br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br />Message: 2<br />Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 14:09:12 +0000 (UTC)<br />From: Arnaud <adedc@wanadoo.fr><br />Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] rename of smokeping.cgi into index.cgi<br />To: smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br />Message-ID: <loom.20130708T152259-216@post.gmane.org><br />Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br /><br />G.W. Haywood <ged <at> jubileegroup.co.uk> writes:<br /><br />> <br />> Hi there,<br />> <br />> On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Kris De Rocker wrote:<br />> <br />> > I've followed a nice (and working!
) how-to to install smokeping on a <br />CentOS system <br />> > (http://www.wedebugyou.com/2012/11/how-to-install-and-configure-<br />smokeping-on-centos-6/)<br />> <br />> Unofficial HOWTOs generally should be treated with suspicion. They<br />> are usually out of date and often wrong.<br />> <br />> > At this moment, the smokeping URL is like <br />http://ip/smokeping/smokeping.cgi<br />> > Can i just do a rename of smokeping.cgi into index.cgi so that when i <br />surf to <br />> > http://ip/smokeping it will be visible? Or isn't that possible?<br />> <br />> Don't do that. Use the facilities which are made available by Apache:<br />> <br />> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex<br />> <br />> <br />Hi,<br /><br />I am following the same installation with a problem in step 6 (add <br />smokeping start/stop script) because the link is anavailable.<br />Could you please send me the file &q
uot;smokeping_start_stop.txt"?<br /><br />Best regards<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br />Message: 3<br />Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:35:36 +0100<br />From: Paul Mansfield <paul.mansfield+smokeping@grapeshot.co.uk><br />Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] rename of smokeping.cgi into index.cgi<br />To: smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br />Message-ID:<br /> <CAHYeK0cxFBO1fmfnhduvJBj0UWQJpwkDAc5Y-cHKOFoY8mRO2w@mail.gmail.com><br />Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br /><br />this is the script I use for starting slaves:<br /><br />#!/bin/bash<br /><br />#OPTS="--debug-daemon --nodaemon"<br /><br />chown root:smokeping /usr/local/smokeping/etc/secret<br />chmod ug=rw,o= /usr/local/smokeping/etc/secret<br /><br />su - smokeping -s /bin/bash -c "/usr/local/smokeping/bin/smokeping<br />$OPTS --master-url=http://smokeping.example.com<br />--cache-dir=/usr/local/s<br />mokeping/cache --shared-secret=/usr/l
ocal/smokeping/etc/secret"<br /><br /><br /><br />and here's the one I use for starting the master node:<br /><br />#!/bin/bash<br /><br />#OPTS="--debug-daemon --nodaemon"<br /><br />cd /usr/local/smokeping<br />chgrp -R smokeping cache data var<br />chmod -R g+w cache data var<br /><br />su - smokeping -s /bin/bash -c "cd /usr/local/smokeping ; bin/smokeping $OPTS"<br /><br /><br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br />Message: 4<br />Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:30:34 +0200<br />From: Iain <expat.iain@gmail.com><br />Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Can't call method "_pings"<br />To: smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br />Message-ID: <20130709143034.1a687c3a@expat-lt.net.tain.com><br />Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8<br /><br />On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:50:05 +0200, ?????? ??????? did type at the<br />keyboard thusly:<br /><br />> please help to solve the problem<br />> <br />> Can't call method "_pings
" on an undefined value at<br />> /usr/local/smokeping/lib/Smokeping.pm line 884.<br />> <br />> thanks<br /><br />Did you ever manage to fix this problem? I have the same issue after<br />migrating a working installation from Debian to FreeBSD. I can view<br />graphs and all other information if I pass ?target= argument on the<br />URL, but hitting the http://<host>/<path>/smokeping.fcgi results in the<br />exact same error.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br />Message: 5<br />Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:36:15 +0100<br />From: Nick Toseland <nick@livejournalinc.com><br />Subject: [smokeping-users] Slave Graphs not updating on master<br />To: smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br />Message-ID: <51DC9E6F.2020007@livejournalinc.com><br />Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br /><br />All,<br /><br />I am pulling my hair out trying to get the slave graphs to update on the <br />master serve
r.<br /><br />I have ran the debug on the slave and can it executing the probe and <br />sending the data to the master. apparently the server acknowledges it, <br />but nothing appears on the webpage.<br /><br /><br />This is how the apache and smokeping process run:<br /># ps -ef | grep apache<br />root 987 1 0 22:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start<br />www-data 989 987 0 22:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start<br />www-data 991 987 0 22:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start<br />www-data 992 987 0 22:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start<br /><br /># ps -ef | grep smokeping<br />106 1706 1 0 23:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smokeping [FPing]<br /><br />There is nothing in /var/log/syslog to suggest why this is not working.<br /><br />There is however these in /var/log/apache2/error.log. The problem is <br />that those files don't exist<br /><br />[Tue Jul 9 23:17:00 2013] smokeping.cgi [cli
ent XXXXX]: Could not lock <br />/var/lib/smokeping//External/BBC-CO-UK.smokeping-oregon.slave_cache <br />(Permission denied). Trying again 2 more times.<br />[Tue Jul 9 23:17:01 2013] smokeping.cgi [client XXXXX]: Could not lock <br />/var/lib/smokeping//External/BBC-CO-UK.smokeping-oregon.slave_cache <br />(Permission denied). Trying again 1 more times.<br />[Tue Jul 9 23:17:02 2013] smokeping.cgi [client XXXXX]: Could not <br />update <br />/var/lib/smokeping//External/BBC-CO-UK.smokeping-oregon.slave_cache, <br />giving up for now. at /usr/share/perl5/Smokeping/Master.pm line 156.<br />[Tue Jul 9 23:22:00 2013] smokeping.cgi [client XXXXX]: Could not lock <br />/var/lib/smokeping//External/BBC-CO-UK.smokeping-oregon.slave_cache <br />(Permission denied). Trying again 2 more times.<br />[Tue Jul 9 23:22:01 2013] smokeping.cgi [client XXXXX]: Could not lock <br />/var/lib/smokeping//External/BBC-CO-UK.smokeping-oregon.slave_cache <br />(Permission denied). Trying agai
n 1 more times.<br />[Tue Jul 9 23:22:02 2013] smokeping.cgi [client XXXXX]: Could not <br />update <br />/var/lib/smokeping//External/BBC-CO-UK.smokeping-oregon.slave_cache, <br />giving up for now. at /usr/share/perl5/Smokeping/Master.pm line 156.<br /><br />ls -la /var/lib/smokeping//External/<br />total 5848<br />drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping smokeping 4096 Jul 9 22:51 .<br />drwxr-xr-x 6 smokeping smokeping 4096 Jul 9 22:51 ..<br />-rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping 2986808 Jul 9 23:33 BBC-CO-UK.rrd<br />-rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping 2986808 Jul 9 22:51 <br />BBC-CO-UK~smokeping-oregon.rrd<br /><br /><br />Could you help me get to the bottom of this?<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />Nick<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />-------------- next part --------------<br />An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br />URL: http://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/smokeping-users/attachments/20130710/f47784a2/attachment-0001.htm <br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br />Message: 6<br
/>Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 16:52:31 -0700<br />From: Gregory Sloop <gregs@sloop.net><br />Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Slave Graphs not updating on master<br />To: smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br />Message-ID: <1517435054.20130709165231@sloop.net><br />Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br /><br />An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br />URL: http://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/smokeping-users/attachments/20130709/029d6a8d/attachment.htm <br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />smokeping-users mailing list<br />smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br />https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users<br /><br /><br />End of smokeping-users Digest, Vol 77, Issue 3<br />**********************************************</p>
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