[smokeping-users] Strange Alert Behaviour

[John L Hoo]

I am getting gaps in my smokeping data when I have alerts configured for
targets. I see the same gaps for each target, whether an alert is configured
for that target or not. It is almost as if the server lost connectivity to
the network. But it did not.

If I remove the alerts for the configuration of the targets - no more gaps
in the data.

Here is my Database Configuration

*** Database ***

step     = 60 
pings    = 5

# consfn mrhb steps total

AVERAGE  0.5   1  1008
AVERAGE  0.5  12  10800 
    MIN  0.5  12  10800
    MAX  0.5  12  10800
AVERAGE  0.5 144  24000
    MAX  0.5 144  24000
    MIN  0.5 144  24000

Here are my alerts.... 

+lossdetect-3m
type = loss
pattern = ==0%,==0%,==0%,==0%,>20%,>20%,>20%
comment = 3 minute packet loss detection

+latency-3m
type = rtt
pattern = <100,<100,<100,<100,>100,>100,>100
comment = 3 minute high latency of greater than 100ms

+latency-change
type = matcher
pattern =
Avgratio(historic=>60,current=>60,comparator=>'>',percentage=>300)
comment = last hour latency 300% of previous hour

Here is my Fping config....

+ FPing

binary = /usr/local/sbin/fping
packetsize = 79
timeout = 0.2

Here is a sample target...

+++Bell
menu = Bell
title = Bell
probe = FPing
host = <<ip address deleted>>
alerts = lossdetect-3m,latency-3m,latency-change

Here is the RRD fetch...

[root at adelx02 etc]# rrdtool fetch /data/smokeping/var/Terago/Peers/Bell.rrd
AVERAGE | grep "nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan"
1130850720:  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan
1130851440:  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan
1130852160:  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan
1130857920:  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan
1130858640:  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan
1130860080:  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan
1130860800:  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan
1130876640:  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan  nan

And my syslogs

Oct 31 16:04:25 adelx02 smokeping[6615]: FPing: WARNING: smokeping took 127
seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 60
seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup. 
Oct 31 16:14:25 adelx02 smokeping[6615]: FPing: WARNING: smokeping took 127
seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 60
seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup. 
Oct 31 19:35:25 adelx02 smokeping[6615]: FPing: WARNING: smokeping took 127
seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 60
seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup. 
Oct 31 21:51:25 adelx02 smokeping[6615]: FPing: WARNING: smokeping took 127
seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 60
seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup. 
Oct 31 22:00:25 adelx02 smokeping[6615]: FPing: WARNING: smokeping took 127
seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 60
seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup. 
Oct 31 23:34:25 adelx02 smokeping[6615]: FPing: WARNING: smokeping took 127
seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 60
seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup. 
Nov  1 07:41:25 adelx02 smokeping[6615]: FPing: WARNING: smokeping took 127
seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 60
seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup. 
Nov  1 07:46:25 adelx02 smokeping[6615]: FPing: WARNING: smokeping took 127
seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 60
seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup. 
Nov  1 11:20:25 adelx02 smokeping[6615]: FPing: WARNING: smokeping took 127
seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 60
seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup.

Thanks,

John.

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