[smokeping-users] EchoPingHttp Addition

Niko Tyni ntyni+smokeping-users at mappi.helsinki.fi
Thu Dec 13 12:38:17 CET 2007


On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:58:53AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:52:27AM -0600,
>  Kelly Shutt <kelly at websitesource.com> wrote 
>  a message of 17 lines which said:
> 
> > You should really add the "-R" setting to the EchoPingHttp probe. 
> 
> I'm not sure it is a good idea to add it blindly. After, if this is an
> option in echoping, there is a reason.
> 
> Also, this option is available only in echoping >= 6.0. (Debian
> "stable", for instance, still has echoping 5).
> 
> So, I suggest that, if someone adds it, it is an option of the probe.

Hi,

the request was probably triggered by the recent change that made
Smokeping take the echoping and curl exit codes into account and complain
when they are non-zero.

I'll add it as a configuration option as suggested and disable it by
default. Thanks to you both.

Cheers,
-- 
Niko



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