[smokeping-users] SmokeTrace 2.0

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Josh,

Yesterday Josh Luthman wrote:

> That's even better then what I had thought!
>
> For something like this I would want it on a Linux server, but I am sure
> other people would have other opinions (Windows, Mac, BSD, etc).  I've not
> paid enough attention when using the different traceroute utilities to even
> notice they were different.
>
> Will you be releasing both plugins with one SmokeTrace archive?

I am not yet entirely clear about how to go with the distribution.
I will certinly release all bits of it. I think there ought to be
some sort of configuration mechanism where you can define which
plugins should go in and possibly even configure the plugins
themselfs. At the moment this is still done by adding the perl
modules to the jsonrpc service module on the server side

> Not sure if this is supposed to be this way or not - but it thinks there are
> non-responsive hosts between hosts (in my case the destination - 4.2.2.2) it
> ends up with repeated lines with 4.2.2.2 (8, 17 and 24 with non-responsive
> hosts between the three).

this is just what tracroute tells ... the knack here is that at the
moment the frontend has no way of dealing with alternate routes ...
try tracerouting google to see what I mean ... you can just see the
latest trace and no 'trace' of the previous one which went to
different destinations.

cheers
tobi

>
> Josh Luthman
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>
> "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
> --- Albert Einstein
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
>
> > Hi Josh,
> > Yesterday Josh Luthman wrote:
> >
> > > Wow.  Just wow.
> > >
> > > You really have a nice project here.
> > >
> > > Is the DiskFree task part of SmokeTrace?
> >
> > Originally I only wanted todo traceroute, then I found that
> > traceroute exists in various incarnations on different systems. I
> > tried to support many different ones and found that this was rather
> > complex. So I took a different aproach and went for complete
> > abstraction. The smoketrace javascript application has no idea
> > about traceroute, it simply provides a rather specialized
> > environment for displaying data in a table.
> >
> > The configuration comes from plugins sitting on the server written
> > in perl ... the disk free plugin is just a little example for what
> > this could be used too.
> >
> > Note that in the traceroute example all the statistical bits
> > including the graphics in the last column are calculated on the fly
> > inside the browser, the plugin on the server side just defines that
> > in colon x the standard deviation of the number in colon y should
> > be displayed and that the value in colon z is the key.
> >
> > cheers
> > tobi
> >
> > > Josh Luthman
> > > Office: 937-552-2340
> > > Direct: 937-552-2343
> > > 1100 Wayne St
> > > Suite 1337
> > > Troy, OH 45373
> > >
> > > "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
> > > --- Albert Einstein
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Users,
> > > >
> > > > there has not been a smokeping release in quite some time. The
> > > > reason for this is that I am turning smoketrace into a
> > > > stand-alone-application.
> > > >
> > > > the re-writing was total, none of the original code remains ...
> > > >
> > > > Smoketrace has become a generic frontend for tools with table-like
> > > > output. To integrate a tool, you just have to provide a plugin on
> > > > the server side ... the rest is automagic.
> > > >
> > > > I am not yet entirely happy with the plugin interface, it will take
> > > > a few more days to get this in order, but if you are interested in
> > > > what is to come, have a look at:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > http://tobi.oetiker.ch/test/smoketrace/build/#ACT=RUN;PLG=TraceRoute;host=www.caida.org;rounds=10;interval=2;method=default
> > > >
> > > > note that the cool canvas graphis effects will only be visible on
> > > > standard conformant webbrowsers (chrome, ff, opera, safari). I will
> > > > try getting this to work on ie using excanvas.js ... I have not
> > > > tried yet.
> > > >
> > > > cheers
> > > > tobi
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
> > > > http://it.oetiker.ch tobi at oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900
> > > >
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> >
> > --
> > Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
> > http://it.oetiker.ch tobi at oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900
> >
>

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Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
http://it.oetiker.ch tobi at oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900