[smokeping-users] Re: Background colors

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:25:28AM -0400, Dan McGinn-Combs wrote:
> Well, at the risk of self promoting, tSmoke (see the CONTRIB directory)
> does a pretty fair job of keeping my boss happy on measuring uptime for
> specific hosts as well as groups of hosts.
> 
> The weekly summary shows availability (as opposed to uptime) over
> several durations in a nice HTML formatted mail. The downtime summary
> shows individual host downtime.

Good point. I was only thinking of uptime in the sense of 'seconds
since last reboot'. Uptime in the sense of 'availability', ie. the
opposite of downtime, might well be closer what the original question
was about.

tSmoke is actually included in the 2.0rc5 tarball, since it needed a
few modifications for 2.0 compatibility.

> Showing host uptime vs. how long you had a dynamic IP address will be an
> interesting addition to Smokeping!

This should be implemented so that it's easy to add new 'uptime
plugins'. An SNMP query for sysUptime and an ability to run an external
command are the first things that come to mind, but perhaps there are
others...  like how long a DNS name has resolved to the same IP
address, or a given URL has contained the same HTML code. Ideas
welcome.

Hm, as I think of these now, the latter seem probe-specific. Maybe a
probe should be able to define its own uptime plugins in addition to
the generic ones...
-- 
Niko

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