<div dir="ltr">Greg,<div><br></div><div>How many alerts are firing when your box starts to bog? I have been running my fork of the mtr script for several months now with no issues. Matter of fact, I am now working on an expanded version that will dump the mtr's into mysql for easy access for our NOC. Currently, I just have the script appending a file in /var/log with each mtr.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Could you be pushing the box you are running from too hard?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Gregory Sloop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregs@sloop.net" target="_blank">gregs@sloop.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span style="font-family:'courier new';font-size:9pt;color:#800000"><b><div class="">FP> On <a href="tel:21.02.2014%2006" value="+12102201406" target="_blank">21.02.2014 06</a>:42, Philip Wehunt wrote:<br>
>> I could hackishly work around this in my python but I wanted to<br>
>> identify if I am doing something wrong on the SP side or if it is a<br>
>> bug. Mainly in the spirit of KISS. I don't like to let hackish<br>
>> scripts linger.<br>
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FP> You probably found the same script on gist, but here's my version[1]<br>
FP> which doesn't fail when the 6th arg is missing. It will not add "<br>
FP> cleared" to the subject without the arg, but it will send you the report.<br>
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FP> [1]: </b></span><a style="font-family:'courier new';font-size:9pt" href="https://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/bin/tree/smokemtr.py" target="_blank">https://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/bin/tree/smokemtr.py</a><br>
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<span style="font-family:'courier new';font-size:9pt;color:#800000"><b>FP> From the documentation in smokeping_config I'd say this is a bug, but<br>
FP> given I get my mails I didn't bother fixing it yet.<br>
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</b><span style="color:#000000">Florian <a href="http://et.al" target="_blank">et.al</a>.<br>
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First, thanks for the script. I've had to mod it a bit - my MTR isn't quite the same as yours and I want to use a non-local SMTP server and port - but those were easy mods. [MTR is in a different spot too, again easy mod.]<br>
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So, I'm very excited about the prospects of automated mtr stats when a smokeping alert gets triggered - however I run into a substantial snag.<br>
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I use a 60s poll in smokeping, and if I get a bunch of [smokeping] alerts that kick off, then, when each MTR takes a while to run, it stalls smokeping. <br>
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This causes a ripple-effect, and a raft of nagios alerts...since I use a smokeping nagios plug-in. When SP stalls [running the mtr's] the RRD's go dry, and then nagios starts alerting on an "unknown" target state. ["This RRD hasn't been written to in 180s" etc.]<br>
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So, is there some way I can fork off the mtr script, and allow smokeping to continue while the mtr stats are gathered and a report sent?<br>
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[This is something I'm woefully un-knowledgeable about...]<br>
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TIA<br>
-Greg</span></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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