[smokeping-users] multi target graphs - doesn't work

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today G.W. Haywood wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, ovidiu todirascu wrote:
>
> > Can't call method "_pings" on an undefined value at
> > /usr/share/perl5/smokeping/Smokeping.pm line 815.
> > [...]
> > ++ Rackspace
> > menu = Rackspace
> > title = Rackspace
> > host = /10.160.228.252 /10.160.228.248
>
> 1. Why do you have '/' characters in IP addresses?  I would agree that
> the Smokeping documentation is not especially clear, but it does not
> suggest that the syntax which you used is acceptable.  According to
>
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_config.en.html
>
> the 'host' line can contain lines like this:
>
> host = /world/town/host1 /world/town2/host33 /world/town2/host1~slave
>
> which I assume is meant to be paths to .RRD files in your smokeping
> hierarchy - perhaps under /var/lib/smokeping/ or wherever your .RRD
> files are stored on your system.

these are not patchs into the filesystem, but paths into the config
tree. The config for the example above would look like this

+world
++town
+++host1
....

cheers
tobi

>
> 2. Why are you trying to ping IP addresses in the private address space?
> Packets to those addresses must not be routed across the Internet, so if
> your Smokeping machine is in the same IP address space as the targets
> (perhaps in the same CoLo?) then this might work, but otherwise it won't.
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
>
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