[smokeping-users] FPing alternative

[Israel Brewster]

Anyone have any ideas here? Or should I start looking for an  
alternative to smokeping entirely? If so, any suggestions? To date, I  
haven't seen any non-commercial options that seem to fill the same  
niche, but maybe I'm just missing something? At any rate, the current  
situation as described below isn't an acceptable option. Thanks!

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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service Inc.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
(907) 450-7250 x293
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On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Israel Brewster wrote:
> Is there a plugin for smokeping that just does a standard ping, using
> the system ping binary? Using FPing I have to give it a hostinterval =
> 15.0 directive in order to get any sort of reliable return, and even
> then I have to limit the number of pings it sends out to no more than
> 6 or so. If I try to shorten the host interval, or increase the number
> of pings, I start loosing packets. For example, if I reduce the
> hostinterval to 10 seconds, I get a maximum of 3 packets back.
> Obviously, this isn't a viable monitoring scenario.
>
> On the other hand, if I just run a standard ping from the command
> line, it works fine with no lost packets even if I tell it to send a
> packet every millisecond rather than every second. As such, I was
> wondering if there was some way I could just use the standard ping
> rather than FPing to monitor these hosts? I tried echoping at one
> point in the past, but it didn't seem to work any better. Thanks!
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> Israel Brewster
> Computer Support Technician
> Frontier Flying Service Inc.
> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd
> Fairbanks, AK 99709
> (907) 450-7250 x293
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