[smokeping-users] Downloading with Curl

Mostro Mostro mostro713 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 13 05:35:14 CEST 2007


Hello again,

No sooner did I send this I figured out the issue... Arghh....

The probe (not listed below) had --head in the line....

Oh well, its working... On to the notification portion of the setup. :)

Thanks



On 10/12/07, Mostro Mostro <mostro713 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I had my first introduction to Smokeping today. Very nice.. I still have a
> lot to read though.
>
> My main objective is to monitor the bandwidth (out-of-band) of three high
> priority download servers.
>
> Two of the servers require authentication and the third is open if you
> have the direct path.
>
> Anyway, I am able to download an 8MB test file from the two authenticated
> servers but not the third server.
>
> Curl is just downloading the header. From the command line Curl defaults
> to downloading the entire file. From Smokeping it does not.
>
> Here is my config:
>
> ** PROBES **
>
> +Curl
> binary = /usr/bin/curl
> forks = 5
> offset = 50%
> step = 120
> pings = 3
> timeout = 60
> urlformat = http://%host%/ # mandatory
>
>
> ** TARGETS **
>
>
> ## Authentication Required
> + SERVER1
> menu = SERVER1
> title = SERVER1
> probe = Curl
> host = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> urlformat = http://%host%/file.zip
> extraargs = --user user:password
>
>
> ## NO Authentication Required
> + SERVER2
> menu = SERVER2
> title = SERVER2
> probe = Curl
> host = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> urlformat = http://%host%/file.zip
>
>
>
>
>
> [ --nodaemon output]
>
> Here you will notice the first round first site just grabs the header
> info. The next site works as anticipated.
>
>  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
>   0 8975k    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--
> --:--:--     0  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time
> Time     Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
>   0 8975k    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--
> --:--:--     0  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time
> Time     Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
>   0 8975k    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--
> --:--:--     0
>
>   2 8975k    2  200k    0     0   277k      0  0:00:32 --:--:--  0:00:32
> 324k  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
>   0 8975k    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--
> --:--:--     0
> 100 8975k  100 8975k    0     0   399k      0  0:00:22  0:00:22 --:--:--
> 454k
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
> 100 8975k  100 8975k    0     0   346k      0  0:00:25  0:00:25 --:--:--
> 333k
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
> 100 8975k  100 8975k    0     0   459k      0  0:00:19  0:00:19 --:--:--
> 456k
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
> 100 8975k  100 8975k    0     0   297k      0  0:00:30  0:00:30 --:--:--
> 378k
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
> 100 8975k  100 8975k    0     0   396k      0  0:00:22  0:00:22 --:--:--
> 350k
> 100 8975k  100 8975k    0     0   549k      0  0:00:16  0:00:16 --:--:--
> 753k
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
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