[smokeping-users] Re: smokeping graphs stop generating

[Andy Harrison]

Thanks Dan,

When compiling fping from source i noticed that it didn't look clean, so i
resorted to using the Redhat RPM fping-2.4b2-2.i386.rpm (i think this is the
most up to date rpm), which also appeared to fail but when searching for
fping related files i found two copies of fping (/usr/sbin/fping and
/usr/local/sbin/fping)! It looks like redhat rpms install to the former and
source installs (by default) to the latter. Now that i've got the smokeping
config files probe directive pointing to the correct fping, things are going
much better.

So there you go, Whether this works in the long run....?

Thanks for your help though,

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan McGinn-Combs [mailto:Dan.McGinn-Combs at geac.com]
Sent: 15 July 2002 14:11
To: 'Andy Harrison'; 'Smokeping'
Subject: RE: [smokeping-users] smokeping graphs stop generating


Andy,
I'm no expert, but this sounds suspiciously like a problem with TCP/IP
rather than smokeping.

For example, does the graph not exist or does the little red line in the
graph disappear?

Can you substitute a restart of the RedHat network for rebooting the
machine. Again, I'm not an expert, but it would seem to me that the reboot
does something and maybe this is it. Try the command '/etc/rc2.d/S??network
restart' and see if it helps (you need to replace the ?? With the
appropriate number for your machine).

The Fping you are using might be an old version, check the one pointed to by
the Smokeping pages. There are newer versions of Smokeping out there, too!

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Harrison [mailto:andy.harrison at bbc.co.uk] 
> It seems to be more an Fping problem than smokeping itself, 
> when the graphs stop generating, i tested fping on the 
> affected hosts from the command line and it also failed 
> (normal ping worked fine). Also tried fping on the ip 
> address, this also failed, but when trying on an unrelated 
> host ip address, fping was successful!
> 
> The version of fping i'm using is 2.4b2-2 on a Redhat 7.0 
> linux box (kernel 2.2.16-22), the version of smokeping is 1.8.
> 
> I've reinstalled fping a number of times from rpm and source, 
> but same result... works fine for a while and then certain 
> graphs stop generating forcing me to reboot the machine, only 
> for it to continue again...
> 
> Anybody have any ideas???
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 


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