[smokeping-users] 3 issues: configure, timer, and debian package in smokeping 2.3.6

[Peter Kristolaitis]

Responses inline...

On 3/3/2010 12:53 AM, TS Lura wrote:
> Dear smokeping community,
>
> Maybe you guys could tell me if this is a bug or not. And/or if it has 
> been fixed in a later release.
>
> 1. Configure
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I am running Debian testing (squeeze), and I have apt-get installed 
> smokeping.
>
> I had problems with getting the charts to show.  At first I got the 
> tiny overview charts, but not the larger detailed one.
>
> After going RavingRabbit on my system I found out that:
>
>
>
> This works
> --------------------------------
> Config, Targets file:
> --------------------------------
> ++ googlecouk
>
> menu = google.co.uk <http://google.co.uk>
> title = google.co.uk <http://google.co.uk>
> host = google.co.uk <http://google.co.uk>
> --------------------------------
>
>
> This does not work
>
> --------------------------------
> ++ google.co.uk <http://google.co.uk>
>
> menu = google.co.uk <http://google.co.uk>
> title = google.co.uk <http://google.co.uk>
> host = google.co.uk <http://google.co.uk>
> --------------------------------

This is by design and is documented in the configuration guide;  section 
names must match /[-_0-9a-zA-Z]+/.  The period character is used as a 
hierarchy separator in the web front end, and thus cannot be used in 
individual names.

>
> 2. Timer
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> I use the EchoPingHttp probe as well, and I get these errors sometimes.
>
> Mar  3 01:37:36 pwwrpad smokeping[9285]: EchoPingHttp: 
> www.thewebsite.com <http://www.thewebsite.com> timeout (6 s) reached, 
> killing the probe.
>
> Is there a way to increase the timer?

Yes;  change the probe options.   See 
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/EchoPingHttp.en.html

>
>
> 3. Debian package, testing(squeeze)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And rrdtools did not get installed when I did the apt-get install 
> smokeping.
> I also had to go into the smokeping.cgi and set the lib pointer to 
> rrdtools up manually.
> On purpose?

Squeeze is in 'testing' for a reason.  ;)   File a bug report with the 
package maintainers.

>
>
> Anyways thanks for the good software!
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> TSLura
>
> GNU/Debian - Testing
>
> [0531][root at pwwrpad:/var/lib/smokeping/Local]$ smokeping --version
> 2.003006
>
> [0539][root at pwwrpad:/var/lib/smokeping/Local]$ uname -a
> Linux pwwrpad 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 10 08:59:21 UTC 2010 i686 
> GNU/Linux
>
> [0539][root at pwwrpad:/var/lib/smokeping/Local]$ rrdtool -V
> RRDtool 1.3.8  Copyright 1997-2009 by Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch 
> <mailto:tobi at oetiker.ch>>
>                Compiled Jun  2 2009 18:22:37
>
> [0539][root at pwwrpad:/var/lib/smokeping/Local]$ perl -V
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1) configuration:
>   Platform:
>     osname=linux, osvers=2.6.26-2-amd64, 
> archname=i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
>     uname='linux biber 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 smp tue jan 12 22:12:20 utc 
> 2010 i686 gnulinux
>
>
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