From Vidar.Stokkenes at hn-ikt.no  Tue Apr 13 11:35:07 2010
From: Vidar.Stokkenes at hn-ikt.no (Stokkenes Vidar)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:35:07 +0200
Subject: [smokeping-users] CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP probe and IOS 15.x
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1003100646000.25086@wbuna.brgvxre.pu>
References: <383357751003080233n12756926lb527eb173281baa7@mail.gmail.com>
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	<383357751003081300v67621c9exf8d2360d51243663@mail.gmail.com>
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	<383357751003090839v7ecf516fne618baa5a33bb7b1@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <E8AE839E2CDA9E4BA6DA6B35F86E0192159E0EDC21@iktmail1.hn-ikt.no>

Hello,

I can confirm the same behavior on 12.4(24)T on Cisco 7204VXR. However, the proposed fix resolved the issue :-)

Best regards,

Vidar S

> -----Original Message-----
> From: smokeping-users-bounces+vidar.stokkenes=hn-
> ikt.no at lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:smokeping-users-
> bounces+vidar.stokkenes=hn-ikt.no at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Tobias
> Oetiker
> Sent: 10. mars 2010 06:47
> To: Mateusz Blaszczyk
> Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP probe and IOS 15.x
> 
> Hi Mateusz,
> 
> I set the timeout to 10, so that even when you had only a single ping
> it could never be a problem ...
> 
> since normally you have more, 5 works too.
> 
> cheers
> tobi
> 
> Yesterday Mateusz Blaszczyk wrote:
> 
> > On 9 March 2010 16:39, Mateusz Blaszczyk <blahu77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Tobias,
> > >
> > >> iiks, this is a bit twisted I see ... without going into brain
> > >> surgery, how about this:
> > >>
> > >> Index: CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP.pm
> > >>
> ===================================================================
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >> + ? ? ? ? ? ? _default => $pingtimeout+10,
> > >> + ? ? ? ? ? ? _doc => "How long a single RTTMonEcho ICMP 'ping'
> > >> + take at maximum plus 10 seconds to spare. Since we control our
> > >> + own timeout the only purpose of this is to not have us killed by
> > >> + the ping method from basefork.",
> > >> +
> > >
> > > I understand that this is a mistake, it should be
> > >
> > > + ? ? ? ? ? ? _default => $pingtimeout+5,
> > > + ? ? ? ? ? ? _doc => "How long a single RTTMonEcho ICMP 'ping'
> take
> > > at maximum plus 5 seconds to spare. Since we control our own
> timeout
> > > the only purpose of this is to not have us killed by the ping
> method
> > > from basefork.",
> > >
> > > according to the below:
> > >
> > >> the idea is to set the timeout 'per ping' to pingtimeout+5 seconds
> > >> ... this may be a bit of a long timeout but since we control our
> own time anyway it will never hit.
> > >>
> > >
> > > apart from that as I understand the code it looks ok.
> > > I will test it now and let you know the results
> > >
> >
> > works. the probe is not killed by basefork, without any timeout
> option
> > in config-file.
> > ... with "_default => $pingtimeout+5" settings.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > -mat
> >
> >
> 
> --
> 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

From carrot at carrotis.com  Mon Apr 19 05:47:04 2010
From: carrot at carrotis.com (Calvin Park)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:47:04 +0900
Subject: [smokeping-users]  How to bind multi local IP address ?
Message-ID: <q2g423dd19d1004182047h7d0cecdep8b006b6d228e96c2@mail.gmail.com>

Hello SmokePing Users ~

I have plan that SmokePing check the network latency of many ISP lines.
My single linux host has many ip address.
ex)
10.0.0.1 /24   ( local IP 1 )
10.0.1.1 /24   ( local IP 2 )
10.0.2.1 /24   ( local IP 3 )
10.0.3.1 /24   ( local IP 4 )
...
and that's IP addresses have each GW IP addresses and I applied source
routing like belows.

ip route add 10.0.0.1/24 via 10.0.0.254      ( ISP A )
ip route add 10.0.1.1/24 via 10.0.1.254      ( ISP B )
ip route add 10.0.2.1/24 via 10.0.2.254      ( ISP C )
...

I need SmokePing option about local IP address binding.

ex)
smokeping --bind-address=10.0.0.1 ; smokeping --bind-address=10.0.1.1
; smokeping --bind-address=10.0.2.1 ...

How can I do ?


From tobi at oetiker.ch  Mon Apr 19 06:39:33 2010
From: tobi at oetiker.ch (Tobias Oetiker)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:39:33 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] How to bind multi local IP address ?
In-Reply-To: <q2g423dd19d1004182047h7d0cecdep8b006b6d228e96c2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <q2g423dd19d1004182047h7d0cecdep8b006b6d228e96c2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1004190638050.22653@sebohet.brgvxre.pu>

Hi Calvin,

Today Calvin Park wrote:

> Hello SmokePing Users ~
>
> I have plan that SmokePing check the network latency of many ISP lines.
> My single linux host has many ip address.
> ex)
> 10.0.0.1 /24   ( local IP 1 )
> 10.0.1.1 /24   ( local IP 2 )
> 10.0.2.1 /24   ( local IP 3 )
> 10.0.3.1 /24   ( local IP 4 )
> ...
> and that's IP addresses have each GW IP addresses and I applied source
> routing like belows.
>
> ip route add 10.0.0.1/24 via 10.0.0.254      ( ISP A )
> ip route add 10.0.1.1/24 via 10.0.1.254      ( ISP B )
> ip route add 10.0.2.1/24 via 10.0.2.254      ( ISP C )
> ...
>
> I need SmokePing option about local IP address binding.
>
> ex)
> smokeping --bind-address=10.0.0.1 ; smokeping --bind-address=10.0.1.1
> ; smokeping --bind-address=10.0.2.1 ...
>
> How can I do ?

smokeping itselv does not know about IP addresses, it just directs
the probes ... some probes allow you to specify the sender (bind)
address ... for fping there is a patched version on the smokeping
download page which allows that (together with the trunk snapshot
of smokeping).

cheers
tobi

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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


From smokepinglistmail at zeuz.ch  Mon Apr 19 09:42:24 2010
From: smokepinglistmail at zeuz.ch (Claudius Zingerli)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:42:24 +0200
Subject: [smokeping-users] [BUG] Config change does not propagage from
	included file (2.004002)
Message-ID: <4BCC0960.4080601@zeuz.ch>

Dear Smokeping users,

Can anyone please confirm the following:
- I have a main config file A and several included config files A-A, A-B,...
- In all config files I define fping targets
- If I add a new section in an included config file, it does not appear 
on the generated website. --reload does not help, killing smokeping neither.
- Only if I touch the main config file, the changes appear on the website.

Maybe there is a secret switch which I did not figure out yet, maybe 
that is a feature... Or am I doing something completely wrong?

(Smokeping 2.004002 from oss.oetiker.ch on RHEL 5, x64, fping 2.4b2 from 
RHN)

Best regards

Claudius


From tobi at oetiker.ch  Mon Apr 19 10:03:17 2010
From: tobi at oetiker.ch (Tobias Oetiker)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:03:17 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] [BUG] Config change does not propagage from
 included file (2.004002)
In-Reply-To: <4BCC0960.4080601@zeuz.ch>
References: <4BCC0960.4080601@zeuz.ch>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1004191001450.22653@sebohet.brgvxre.pu>

Hi Claudius,

Today Claudius Zingerli wrote:

> Dear Smokeping users,
>
> Can anyone please confirm the following:
> - I have a main config file A and several included config files A-A, A-B,...
> - In all config files I define fping targets
> - If I add a new section in an included config file, it does not appear
> on the generated website. --reload does not help, killing smokeping neither.
> - Only if I touch the main config file, the changes appear on the website.

smokeping monitors the changetime of the main config file. when it
changes it reloads ...

when you run the smokeping deamon with --reload, this will reload
the daemon and it will start pinging the new targets. BUT the
webinterface runs independently. You would have to kill the speedy
instances ... OR touch the main smokeping config file.

hth

cheers
tobi

>
> Maybe there is a secret switch which I did not figure out yet, maybe
> that is a feature... Or am I doing something completely wrong?
>
> (Smokeping 2.004002 from oss.oetiker.ch on RHEL 5, x64, fping 2.4b2 from
> RHN)
>
> Best regards
>
> Claudius
>
> _______________________________________________
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> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
>
>

-- 
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


From carrot at carrotis.com  Fri Apr 23 07:38:02 2010
From: carrot at carrotis.com (Calvin Park)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:38:02 +0900
Subject: [smokeping-users]  What's mean unknown_sec ?
Message-ID: <k2m423dd19d1004222238s5462bcddw5c095b2c492a9d9d@mail.gmail.com>

Hello SmokePing Users ~

Below info. is RRD schema.

name            ( ex : uptime, loss ... )
type              ( ex : GAUGE, COUNTER... )
min. heart beat	 ( ex : 300, 600 )
min	
max	
last_DS	
value	
unknown_sec   <--- this

Could you explain to me what's used for 'unknow_sec' field ?

Thank you . Have a good weekends ~


From tobi at oetiker.ch  Fri Apr 23 08:58:39 2010
From: tobi at oetiker.ch (Tobias Oetiker)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:58:39 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] What's mean unknown_sec ?
In-Reply-To: <k2m423dd19d1004222238s5462bcddw5c095b2c492a9d9d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <k2m423dd19d1004222238s5462bcddw5c095b2c492a9d9d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1004230857020.26516@sebohet.brgvxre.pu>

Hi Calvin,

Today Calvin Park wrote:

> Hello SmokePing Users ~
>
> Below info. is RRD schema.
>
> name            ( ex : uptime, loss ... )
> type              ( ex : GAUGE, COUNTER... )
> min. heart beat	 ( ex : 300, 600 )
> min
> max
> last_DS
> value
> unknown_sec   <--- this
>
> Could you explain to me what's used for 'unknow_sec' field ?

unknown seconds are the number of seconds within an interval that
have no valid data. If more than 50% of a base interval (step)
is filled with unknown data, then the complete periode is
considered to be of unknownn value.

cheers
tobi
>
> Thank you . Have a good weekends ~
>
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> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
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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


From errr.errr at gmail.com  Sat Apr 24 04:30:04 2010
From: errr.errr at gmail.com (Michael Rice)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:30:04 -0500
Subject: [smokeping-users] adding nodes to monitor,
	results only from master not slaves
Message-ID: <v2of83961bf1004231930o79296f7cyfacdfa65a24ccef3@mail.gmail.com>

I am running 2.004002  On a master (houston) and 2 slaves (munin,dallas).
When I add a new node on the master to monitor the slaves never report
data on the node. Only the master does. This only happens on nodes
added since the system went into production. The Slaves both report
data fine on all the original nodes.
I have tried restarting the master, and both slaves but for what ever
reason still no data.

On the master I have gone to: /var/lib/smokeping/External (which is
where the new hosts should be)
These files are in the dir:
=> ll
total 26340K
-rw-rw-r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986672 2010-04-23 21:22 google~dallas.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data  www-data     402 2010-04-23 21:22
google.dallas.slave_cache
-rw-rw-r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986672 2010-04-23 21:22 google~munin.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data  www-data     401 2010-04-23 21:24
google.munin.slave_cache
-rw-rw-r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986672 2010-04-23 21:22 google.rrd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986672 2010-04-23 21:22 mail~dallas.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data  www-data     402 2010-04-23 21:22 mail.dallas.slave_cache
-rw-rw-r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986672 2010-04-23 21:22 mail~munin.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data  www-data     401 2010-04-23 21:24 mail.munin.slave_cache
-rw-rw-r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986672 2010-04-23 21:22 mail.rrd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986672 2010-04-23 21:22 yahoo~dallas.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data  www-data     402 2010-04-23 21:22
yahoo.dallas.slave_cache
-rw-rw-r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986672 2010-04-23 21:22 yahoo~munin.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data  www-data     401 2010-04-23 21:24 yahoo.munin.slave_cache
-rw-rw-r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986672 2010-04-23 21:22 yahoo.rrd


here is the relevant section of the config:
*** Slaves ***
secrets=/etc/smokeping/slave-secrets.conf
+munin
display_name=munin
location=SanAntonio
color=00ff00

+dallas
display_name=Dallas
location=Dallas
color=ff00ff

*** Targets ***
probe = FPing
slaves = munin dallas
menu = Top
title = Network Latency Grapher
remark = Welcome to the SmokePing website of 'Me and my Stuff'

+ External
menu = External
title = External Sites
slaves = munin dallas

++ google
menu = google
title = The Google
host = 8.8.8.8

++ yahoo
menu = yahoo
title = YAHOO
host = yahoo.com

++ mail
menu = mail
title = External Mail
host = mail.myhost.com



Any ideas what I am doing wrong?


From gcinque at sogei.it  Tue Apr 27 14:18:06 2010
From: gcinque at sogei.it (CINQUE GUGLIELMO)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:18:06 +0200
Subject: [smokeping-users] The best configuration in order to monitor a very
	large netwok
References: <v2of83961bf1004231930o79296f7cyfacdfa65a24ccef3@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <344AB96B5B656F498D9211372DB5FE2B04429537@MAILBOX02.domus.ad.sogei.it>

Hi to all, I would like to test Smokeping on a very large network (more
than 3000 routers, divided into groups that contain between a few tens
to hundreds of machines): what is the best configuration?
Thank in advance to all of your.
Guglielmo


From chongz.zhang at gmail.com  Tue Apr 27 23:38:15 2010
From: chongz.zhang at gmail.com (Chong Zhang)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:38:15 -0400
Subject: [smokeping-users] fping6 and tos
Message-ID: <g2se5f82be61004271438o59d89c04w4becb2d8fbf77ee8@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I downloaded http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/fping-2.4b2_to4-ipv6.tar.gzand
run the configure and make, but it only generates the fping so I had
to
manually compiled the fping6. Any one know how to use the -DIPV6 option in
either configure or make?

Another question is if fping6 supports the -O option to setup the ToS/QoS
value? I got the following error from both fping6 and ping6 on RHEL5.3:

    [root]# /usr/sbin/fping6  ::1
    ::1 is alive

    [root]# /usr/sbin/fping6 -O 64 ::1
    setting type of service octet IP_TOS: Protocol not available
    ::1 is alive

    [root]# ping6 -Q 0x02 ::1
    Flowinfo is not supported.


Thanks,
Chong
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From Okuwa.Daley at six-group.com  Thu Apr 29 14:35:04 2010
From: Okuwa.Daley at six-group.com (Daley, Okuwa)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:35:04 +0200
Subject: [smokeping-users] questions
Message-ID: <03A44833CA616D4EB17ED39FA67C3ADE3C0EA720@LPZHWMEXE11.base.dom>


Please can you help me with your tool
I am looking for a tool
My questions
How many devices can it ping as a maximum at a time
What is the polling interval
How long can the historical data save up to
Can it also do some real time stuff
Can it integrate with other tools like openview

daley



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From alter3d at alter3d.ca  Thu Apr 29 17:54:08 2010
From: alter3d at alter3d.ca (Peter Kristolaitis)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:54:08 -0400
Subject: [smokeping-users] questions
In-Reply-To: <03A44833CA616D4EB17ED39FA67C3ADE3C0EA720@LPZHWMEXE11.base.dom>
References: <03A44833CA616D4EB17ED39FA67C3ADE3C0EA720@LPZHWMEXE11.base.dom>
Message-ID: <4BD9ABA0.3020309@alter3d.ca>

Hi Daley;

See answers inline...

On 4/29/2010 8:35 AM, Daley, Okuwa wrote:
>
> Please can you help me with your tool
>
> I am looking for a tool
>
> My questions
>
> How many devices can it ping as a maximum at a time
>
There's no hardcoded limit;  the main limiting factors will be the 
granularity you want (i.e. the number of pings you send to each host 
during each poll cycle), your polling interval, processing power, disk 
IO capacity and network bandwidth.

You can also use a master/slave configuration to spread out the load.

> What is the polling interval
>
It's completely configurable.  You decide what you want it to be, 
keeping in mind factors the factors above.

> How long can the historical data save up to
>
It's completely configurable.  The sample configuration stores data for 
(IIRC) 400 days, but I've set up SmokePing instances that store several 
years worth of data.

> Can it also do some real time stuff
>
It would help to know exactly what you mean here.  'Real time' means 
different things, depending on which salesperson you've been talking 
to.   :)      At its core, SmokePing works on the concept of polling 
cycles, so typically things like alerts, etc, will work at whatever 
granularity your polling cycle uses.

You *could* set a very short polling time, with only 1 or 2 pings per 
cycle, if all you want is things like alerts... but then you don't get 
all the other stats (loss %, range, std. dev., etc) that make SmokePing 
such a phenomenally useful tool.

> Can it integrate with other tools like openview
>
AFAIK, there is no "out of the box" integration.  However, depending on 
what exactly you're wanting to do, it might be possible to write your 
own scripts to do it.   SmokePing can run a script instead of sending 
emails when an alert happens, so you might be able to get some 
integration that way.

> daley
>
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