[smokeping-users] Can't get TCPPing to work with multiple targets (Smokeping 2.004002)

[Mark Dawson]

Thanks for the feedback.  I actually got it going by changing the syntax of
the configuration.  I simply took the 'probe =' line out of the top level
portion where I specify 'slave =', and put it at the level of the actual
target definitions.  Then it started working.  Odd. . .


On 11/7/09 5:26 AM, "G.W. Haywood" <ged at jubileegroup.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Mark Dawson wrote:
>
>> Hasn't anyone been successful in getting multiple targets working with
>> the TCPPing probe?  Your help in this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I see no response to you so far so I'll chime in with what little help
> I can, just to keep you from tearing out more hair. :)
>
> I'm using multiple TCPPing targets, but apparently I'm not as fussy as
> you are about the configuration files.  Perhaps I haven't run into the
> issue you describe because I haven't done what you're trying to do.
>
> However, it seems to me that you might learn more by running smokeping
> in debug mode on the master than you will learn by running it that way
> on the slaves.  You might also want to check what .rrd files are being
> created on the master.  I did a very cursory skim through the code to
> see if I could see anything obvious that would explain what you see,
> but I'm not using the same versions of things that you are so it would
> be pointless my spending a lot of time doing that.  Nothing jumped out
> and bit me, but I did wonder if you have the TCPPing.pm and FPing.pm
> modules in the same directory, or perhaps more than one of them that
> might be found, say from an old installation.
>
> My guess is that this is either (1) a misunderstanding about how the
> configuration works (unlikely, since you've apparently done what you
> want using the FPing probe but not using TCPPing), (2) an installation
> problem (easily messed up if you've used both packages and tarballs
> for example), or (3) a bug in the Smokeping.pm or TCPPing.pm modules
> (plausible, if you've read the code:).  If you need any help debugging
> I'll be glad to lend a hand (two complete sets of configuration files
> exactly as you're using them and detailed version information would be
> a good start) but check the debug output on the master first.  I'm not
> one of the smokeping developers, but I've hacked the code a little for
> my own purposes.  Most of the time I'm only monitoring a couple of
> dozen machines, there are people around here running several thousand.
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.


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