[smokeping-users] Re: FPing errors

[Dez Cadena]

Hello Tobi,

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:24:11PM +0100, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> Hi Dez,
 
> I agree with your assessment ... it would help if you could figure
> out what output fping is creating here ...
 
I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. 
The expected fping output should be something similar to:

www.mozilla.org    : 206.46 205.65 206.10 206.10 205.91 205.90 206.01 206.02 205.76 205.90 206.28 205.77 206.32 205.84 206.31 206.06 206.31 206.44 206.17 206.55
www.oddrecords.com : 0.47 0.31 0.39 0.27 0.32 0.42 0.27 0.28 0.32 0.42 0.42 0.29 0.29 0.35 0.35 0.40 0.29 0.29 0.27 0.26

What I'm getting in the logs is 100s of pairs of these kind of log entries:

Nov  5 14:31:58 kung smokeping[4505]: Argument "20/20/0%," isn't numeric in sort at /usr/local/smokeping/lib/probes/FPing.pm line 105, <GEN389> line 158.
Nov  5 14:31:58 kung smokeping[4505]: Argument "0.24/0.29/0.39" isn't numeric in sort at /usr/local/smokeping/lib/probes/FPing.pm line 105, <GEN389> line 158.

The first one, I guess is something like num_of_packets_sent/num_of_packets_received/loss(%)
and the second one looks like min/avg/max RTT

I dont know what to make of it :(


> Today Dez Cadena wrote:
 
> >Hello,

> >I've been happily using smokeping for quite a while probing 100s of
> >targets, using quite a few different probes. Recently, I ve noticed
> >a lot of log entries like the following :

> >Oct 23 09:37:27 xxxx smokeping[11748]: Argument "0.-182353260" isn't 
> >numeric in sort at /usr/local/smokeping/lib/probes/FPing.pm line 105, 
> ><GEN2828> line 1.
> >Oct 23 09:37:46 xxxx smokeping[11748]: Argument "20/20/0%," isn't numeric 
> >in sort at /usr/local/smokeping/lib/probes/FPing.pm line 105, <GEN2828> 
> >line 2.
> >Oct 23 09:37:46 xxxx smokeping[11748]: Argument "12.9/14.1/28.6" isn't 
> >numeric in sort at /usr/local/smokeping/lib/probes/FPing.pm line 105, 
> ><GEN2828> line 2.

> >The result is that for the given interval, I get black lines on all my 
> >FPing targets.
> >I dont see a particular pattern in time for those messages (sometimes 
> >every hour,
> >sometimes once per day etc...)

> >It seems like FPing.pm is getting unusual fping output and has problem 
> >parsing it.
> >I haven't performed any upgrades to fping or smokeping.

> >I'm running Smokeping 1.30 and fping 2.4b2_to (from Tobi's site)

> >Any ideas?

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