[smokeping-users] Re: --filter feature on same machine

[Arnold Nipper]

Tobi,

On 12.12.2005 17:30 Tobias Oetiker wrote

> Arnold,
> 
> dont use filter for this. use @include.
> 
> and create separate smokeping instances that only share the
> datastore location.
> 
> for each you @include its config ... and for the viewing app you
> can @include all the configs ...
> 
> also note that the 1.2 series has the ability to fork, this may
> help ...
> 
> if smokeping does not complete a cycle in the time alloted it would
> complain in the logfile ...

thank you for the hints.

> so there may be another problem ...
> 

I've copied the whole config to another host and don't see the problem 
on this host while it is still on the original one where *all* RTT go up 
during prime time. Any ideas?


Best regards,
Arnold

> cheers
> tobi
> Today Arnold Nipper wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have a quite big config
>>
>> step     = 300
>> pings    = 20
>>
>> FPing: probing 254 targets
>> FPing6: probing 55 targets
>> EchoPingSmtp: probing 1 targets
>> EchoPingHttp: probing 1 targets
>>
>> and my impression is that smokeping is not able to get thru all these
>> targets. The reason why I'm thinking this is, that smokeping has to many
>> false positives. It detects losses and high rtt where no loss and no
>> high rtt is.
>>
>> Hence I was happy to run across the --filter option. I've divided my
>> config into 6 parts, but after starting the second smokeping I get
>>
>> ERROR: I Quit! Another copy of /usr/local/smokeping/bin/smokeping
>> (28067) seems to be running.
>>         Check /var/run/smokeping/smokeping.pid
>>
>>
>> Any idea to get around this?
>>
>>
>>
>> TIA, Arnold
>>
> 


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