From mliebherr99 at googlemail.com  Fri Oct  1 10:04:46 2010
From: mliebherr99 at googlemail.com (ml ml)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:04:46 +0200
Subject: [smokeping-users] How to hide Smokeping menu
Message-ID: <AANLkTin=y4g+P-oRz+-UyA+2y75RXmF=LHzD4SW0RSQo@mail.gmail.com>

Hello!

I have about 50 host/customers i am monitoring with smokeping. Now i
would like to give the customers access to the smoeping ajax graphs.

Is it somehow possible to hide the menu or somthing? So that they need
to know the exact target name/url? I dont want them to look at other
customer's graphs.

Cheers,
Mario


From jbendtsen at laerdal.dk  Fri Oct  1 12:29:27 2010
From: jbendtsen at laerdal.dk (Jon Bendtsen)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:29:27 +0200
Subject: [smokeping-users] How to hide Smokeping menu
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=y4g+P-oRz+-UyA+2y75RXmF=LHzD4SW0RSQo@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTin=y4g+P-oRz+-UyA+2y75RXmF=LHzD4SW0RSQo@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <57B3A634-1258-4BFC-B759-D0864FA28F03@laerdal.dk>

On 01/10/2010, at 10.04, ml ml wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I have about 50 host/customers i am monitoring with smokeping. Now i
> would like to give the customers access to the smoeping ajax graphs.
> 
> Is it somehow possible to hide the menu or somthing? So that they need
> to know the exact target name/url? I dont want them to look at other
> customer's graphs.

In my access log i see urls like:

GET /cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=hosting
GET /smokeping/hosting/pingwww_mini.png
GET /smokeping/hosting/pingwww1024_mini.png

And if i click another target i see:

GET /cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=valby
GET /smokeping/valby/valbygw_mini.png

And if i click on a graph i see
GET /cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=valby.valbygw
GET /cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?displaymode=n;start=2010-10-01%2009:28;end=now;target=valby.valbygw


I think it might just be possible to use a <location> to require login for the pages you want to protect. It might require some detective work though.



JonB

From dbotham at infoblox.com  Wed Oct  6 21:14:55 2010
From: dbotham at infoblox.com (David Botham)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:14:55 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down
Message-ID: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030911@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>

<sorry for the html email, but, I needed inline graphic>



All,



Does anyone know of a way to fill the background of the graph when a host is down (fping)?  I have set:



loss_background = yes



But, my graph looks like this (the left leading white space is before I started collecting):



[cid:image003.jpg at 01CB6569.3BBD8A40]



And what I want is this:



[cid:image004.jpg at 01CB6569.3BBD8A40]





So that the downtime really stands out...



Thank you,



David


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From jeffwilliams05 at gmail.com  Wed Oct  6 23:31:33 2010
From: jeffwilliams05 at gmail.com (Jeff Williams)
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:31:33 -0500
Subject: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down
In-Reply-To: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030911@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
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From dbotham at infoblox.com  Wed Oct  6 23:36:05 2010
From: dbotham at infoblox.com (David Botham)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 21:36:05 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down
In-Reply-To: <4CACEAB5.2030005@gmail.com>
References: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030911@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
	<4CACEAB5.2030005@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030B7E@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>



From: Jeff Williams [mailto:jeffwilliams05 at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 5:32 PM
To: David Botham
Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down




<sorry for the html email, but, I needed inline graphic>



All,



Does anyone know of a way to fill the background of the graph when a host is down (fping)?  I have set:



loss_background = yes



But, my graph looks like this (the left leading white space is before I started collecting):



[cid:image001.jpg at 01CB657C.F4157C70]



And what I want is this:



[cid:image002.jpg at 01CB657C.F4157C70]





So that the downtime really stands out...


David,

Try using the "nodata_color" parameter with the code for the color you want. I think I needed to add that to get the behavior you are looking for. For example, I use this:

nodata_color = f88017
loss_background = yes

dbotham replied with:
Jeff, thanks.  forgot to mention that I tried that too.  It fills the parts when smokeping is not running, but, does not fill in the parts when it is and the host is down (i.e. 100% Packet Loss).   So, that look like this:
[cid:image003.jpg at 01CB657C.F4157C70]

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From jeffwilliams05 at gmail.com  Thu Oct  7 00:47:44 2010
From: jeffwilliams05 at gmail.com (Jeff Williams)
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:47:44 -0500
Subject: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down
In-Reply-To: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030B7E@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
References: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030911@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
	<4CACEAB5.2030005@gmail.com>
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From dbotham at infoblox.com  Thu Oct  7 02:54:13 2010
From: dbotham at infoblox.com (David Botham)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 00:54:13 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down
In-Reply-To: <4CACFC90.8060707@gmail.com>
References: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030911@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
	<4CACEAB5.2030005@gmail.com>
	<E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030B7E@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>,
	<4CACFC90.8060707@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030D00@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>

<sorry for the top post... owa arrrg >

Thanks again, Jeff.

I am doing 5 pings every 10 seconds with a 1 second timeout.

I put in this into Presentation:

++loss_colors
0 339900 '0'
1 33ccff '1/5'
2 0033ff '2/5'
3 ccff00 '3/5'
4 ff6600 '4/5'
5 ff0000 '5/5'

But, my loss stats still only showed 0, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, and 4/5.  It ignored the 5/5, like there is a bound on the packet loss calculation and presentation.


david

________________________________
From: Jeff Williams [jeffwilliams05 at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 6:47 PM
To: David Botham
Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down




<sorry for the html email, but, I needed inline graphic>



All,



Does anyone know of a way to fill the background of the graph when a host is down (fping)?  I have set:



loss_background = yes



But, my graph looks like this (the left leading white space is before I started collecting):



[cid:part1.06000608.09010403 at gmail.com]



And what I want is this:



[cid:part2.00020208.07070705 at gmail.com]





So that the downtime really stands out...


David,

Try using the "nodata_color" parameter with the code for the color you want. I think I needed to add that to get the behavior you are looking for. For example, I use this:

nodata_color = f88017
loss_background = yes

dbotham replied with:
Jeff, thanks.  forgot to mention that I tried that too.  It fills the parts when smokeping is not running, but, does not fill in the parts when it is and the host is down (i.e. 100% Packet Loss).   So, that look like this:
[cid:part3.01030404.04050607 at gmail.com]


Sorry I misunderstood what you were looking for. In our environment, we just wanted a way to differentiate between 100% loss and smokeping being down, so we don't mind the white background for 100% loss. You may have already tried this, but I wonder if you could achieve what you are looking for by specifying a loss color for 100%. Do you use the "loss_colors" options? We do 5 pings per interval, so in our case it would be something like this:

++ loss_colors

... (other loss colors here)

5   ff0000  "5/5"

That should tell it to use red as the background for 100% loss, but I haven't verified. Anyone else tried this?
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From tobi at oetiker.ch  Thu Oct  7 07:00:49 2010
From: tobi at oetiker.ch (Tobias Oetiker)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:00:49 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down
In-Reply-To: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030B7E@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
References: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030911@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
	<4CACEAB5.2030005@gmail.com>
	<E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030B7E@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010070658150.18638@sebohet.brgvxre.pu>

Hi David,

Yesterday David Botham wrote:
>
> <sorry for the html email, but, I needed inline graphic>

the case where 100% of the trafic is lost does presently not get a
color response.

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


From dbotham at infoblox.com  Thu Oct  7 14:53:58 2010
From: dbotham at infoblox.com (David Botham)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:53:58 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010070658150.18638@sebohet.brgvxre.pu>
References: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030911@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
	<4CACEAB5.2030005@gmail.com>
	<E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030B7E@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
	<alpine.DEB.2.00.1010070658150.18638@sebohet.brgvxre.pu>
Message-ID: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458031041@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>

Hi Tobi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Oetiker [mailto:tobi at oetiker.ch]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 1:01 AM
> To: David Botham
> Cc: Jeff Williams; smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Yesterday David Botham wrote:
> >
> > <sorry for the html email, but, I needed inline graphic>
> 
> the case where 100% of the trafic is lost does presently not get a
> color response.

Thanks for the confirmation.  I may look into making this an option.  Where in the src should I look to tinker with this mod?

Thanks,

david

> 
> 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


From nicholas at kixp.or.ke  Thu Oct  7 21:34:26 2010
From: nicholas at kixp.or.ke (Nick Wambugu)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:34:26 -0300
Subject: [smokeping-users] Smokeping web Interface
Message-ID: <26b93028035ed21ffbdefa46a9a3cee7.squirrel@www.kixp.or.ke>


Hello,

I have installed smokeping and configured properly but I got a little
problem on the apache httpd.conf file config for it, am using freebsd
would appreciate help and a sample on same.

-- 
Nicholas Wambugu
Kenya Internet eXchange Point (KIXP)
Tel: +254 020 2245036
Cell: +254 720849286
yahoo chat: Nicklest_pal
www.kixp.or.ke


-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.


From josh at imaginenetworksllc.com  Thu Oct  7 15:49:39 2010
From: josh at imaginenetworksllc.com (Josh Luthman)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:49:39 -0400
Subject: [smokeping-users] Smokeping web Interface
In-Reply-To: <26b93028035ed21ffbdefa46a9a3cee7.squirrel@www.kixp.or.ke>
References: <26b93028035ed21ffbdefa46a9a3cee7.squirrel@www.kixp.or.ke>
Message-ID: <AANLkTik5HweNguNQfjSs8HVS1YSxQV8n6L86N=Dw4DFB@mail.gmail.com>

There is no mention to what the problem is.  This is necessary for anyone to
help you.

A working smokeping looks like this:
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=Customers.OP

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373


On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Nick Wambugu <nicholas at kixp.or.ke> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I have installed smokeping and configured properly but I got a little
> problem on the apache httpd.conf file config for it, am using freebsd
> would appreciate help and a sample on same.
>
> --
> Nicholas Wambugu
> Kenya Internet eXchange Point (KIXP)
> Tel: +254 020 2245036
> Cell: +254 720849286
> yahoo chat: Nicklest_pal
> www.kixp.or.ke
>
>
> --
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
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From tobi at oetiker.ch  Thu Oct  7 18:57:53 2010
From: tobi at oetiker.ch (Tobias Oetiker)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 18:57:53 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down
In-Reply-To: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458031041@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
References: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030911@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
	<4CACEAB5.2030005@gmail.com>
	<E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458030B7E@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
	<alpine.DEB.2.00.1010070658150.18638@sebohet.brgvxre.pu>
	<E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458031041@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010071857260.18638@sebohet.brgvxre.pu>

Hi David,

Today David Botham wrote:

> Hi Tobi,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tobias Oetiker [mailto:tobi at oetiker.ch]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 1:01 AM
> > To: David Botham
> > Cc: Jeff Williams; smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> > Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Fill Background While Host Is Down
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Yesterday David Botham wrote:
> > >
> > > <sorry for the html email, but, I needed inline graphic>
> >
> > the case where 100% of the trafic is lost does presently not get a
> > color response.
>
> Thanks for the confirmation.  I may look into making this an
> option.  Where in the src should I look to tinker with this mod?

grep for LINE and AREA :-)

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


From alpha.daniel at gmail.com  Wed Oct 13 16:19:12 2010
From: alpha.daniel at gmail.com (Daniel Chanliev)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:19:12 +0300
Subject: [smokeping-users] constant loss after change of ip address
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=_bQWgeu299NVAOVWMUsRX9q4We-CZoVRCpTFU@mail.gmail.com>

I`m using Smokeping 2.3.6 on Debian and i`ve setup many hosts to monitor.
Recently i changed the ip address of one of the hosts from private address
(192.168.*.*) to public address (87.252.*.*) and after that i get constant
red smokes with 85-90% loss. If i change the address to something else it`s
ok, put it back and again 90% loss. It appears that this single ip is
getting loss. If i change with some other from the same network it`s
working. I ping the host from the machine running smokeping and it pings ok.
Reload didn`t help. Restart didn`t help. Reboot of the machine didn`t help.
Any ideas what is causing this?
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From Hasan.Ceylan at dowjones.com  Wed Oct 13 21:34:45 2010
From: Hasan.Ceylan at dowjones.com (Ceylan, Hasan)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:34:45 -0400
Subject: [smokeping-users] question about color codes on loss data on
Message-ID: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F0B@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>


As you can see from this graph, there are grey and blackish areas in the graph but not mentioned on the legend.  Any ideas why there are black/grey areas and what do they mean?

http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=World.Europe.Switzerland.SWITCH

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From dbotham at infoblox.com  Wed Oct 13 21:54:12 2010
From: dbotham at infoblox.com (David Botham)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:54:12 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] question about color codes on loss data on
In-Reply-To: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F0B@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F0B@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
Message-ID: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458035B3F@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>


I think it is the 'smoke' part of smokeping...

I cannot say 100%, but, I think I remember it being lighter and smaller the closer the sample was to the median ping time, and darker and bigger the farther away it is.  Coloring is applied if there was loss in the sample.

Someone else will have to confirm, though...


david


________________________________
From: smokeping-users-bounces+dbotham=infoblox.com at lists.oetiker.ch [smokeping-users-bounces+dbotham=infoblox.com at lists.oetiker.ch] on behalf of Ceylan, Hasan [Hasan.Ceylan at dowjones.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:34 PM
To: 'smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch'
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] question about color codes on loss data on


As you can see from this graph, there are grey and blackish areas in the graph but not mentioned on the legend.  Any ideas why there are black/grey areas and what do they mean?

http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=World.Europe.Switzerland.SWITCH

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From Hasan.Ceylan at dowjones.com  Wed Oct 13 21:57:33 2010
From: Hasan.Ceylan at dowjones.com (Ceylan, Hasan)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:57:33 -0400
Subject: [smokeping-users] question about color codes on loss data on
In-Reply-To: <E4F86C9BF1419743B476000500D92458035B3F@x2008mb2.infoblox.com>
Message-ID: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F0E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>

Does the gray part explains the rtt?

-----Original Message-----
From: David Botham [mailto:dbotham at infoblox.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:54 PM
To: Ceylan, Hasan; 'smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch'
Subject: RE: [smokeping-users] question about color codes on loss data on


I think it is the 'smoke' part of smokeping...

I cannot say 100%, but, I think I remember it being lighter and smaller the closer the sample was to the median ping time, and darker and bigger the farther away it is.  Coloring is applied if there was loss in the sample.

Someone else will have to confirm, though...


david

________________________________
From: smokeping-users-bounces+dbotham=infoblox.com at lists.oetiker.ch [smokeping-users-bounces+dbotham=infoblox.com at lists.oetiker.ch] on behalf of Ceylan, Hasan [Hasan.Ceylan at dowjones.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:34 PM
To: 'smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch'
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] question about color codes on loss data on

As you can see from this graph, there are grey and blackish areas in the graph but not mentioned on the legend.  Any ideas why there are black/grey areas and what do they mean?

http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=World.Europe.Switzerland.SWITCH

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From tobi at oetiker.ch  Wed Oct 13 23:11:18 2010
From: tobi at oetiker.ch (Tobias Oetiker)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:11:18 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] question about color codes on loss data on
In-Reply-To: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F0B@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F0B@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010132311020.6916@sebohet.brgvxre.pu>

Hi Hasan,

Today Ceylan, Hasan wrote:

>
> As you can see from this graph, there are grey and blackish areas
> in the graph but not mentioned on the legend.  Any ideas why
> there are black/grey areas and what do they mean?
>
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=World.Europe.Switzerland.SWITCH

maybe this helps:
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/reading.en.html

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


From Hasan.Ceylan at dowjones.com  Thu Oct 14 19:49:28 2010
From: Hasan.Ceylan at dowjones.com (Ceylan, Hasan)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:49:28 -0400
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010132311020.6916@sebohet.brgvxre.pu>
Message-ID: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>

I am a newbie to smokeping and having some issues with setting up different sets of probes. I was able to set up a fping probe, but I would like to be able to set up dns, smtp, curl and some other ones. When I try to edit the config file, the whole thing goes sour.

Can somebody send me a config (excluding the private info) file that works so that I can try to figure out the syntax of setting up this config?

Thanks,

hasan


From adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com  Fri Oct 15 13:51:02 2010
From: adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com (Adam Hardy)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:51:02 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
Message-ID: <4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>

Ceylan, Hasan on 14/10/10 18:49, wrote:
> I am a newbie to smokeping and having some issues with setting up different
> sets of probes. I was able to set up a fping probe, but I would like to be
> able to set up dns, smtp, curl and some other ones. When I try to edit the
> config file, the whole thing goes sour.
> 
> Can somebody send me a config (excluding the private info) file that works so
> that I can try to figure out the syntax of setting up this config?
> 

I would be interested in something like this too.

Perhaps it can go on the website?

Adam


From ged at jubileegroup.co.uk  Fri Oct 15 20:23:18 2010
From: ged at jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:23:18 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
	<4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>

Hi there,

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Adam Hardy wrote:

> Ceylan, Hasan on 14/10/10 18:49, wrote:
>
> > ... I was able to set up a fping probe, but I would like to be
> > able to set up dns, smtp, curl and some other ones. When I try to
> > edit the config file, the whole thing goes sour.
> >
> > Can somebody send me a config ...
>
> I would be interested in something like this too.

Try something based on this:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Targets
----------------------------------------------------------------------
*** Targets ***

menu = Top
title = Network Latency Grapher
remark = Our Site

probe  = FPing_00

@include /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets.Local
@include /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets.World

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Targets.Local
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Local

menu = Local
title = Local Network

@include /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets.Local.Here
@include /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets.Local.There
@include /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets.Local.Everywhere

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Targets.Local.Here
----------------------------------------------------------------------
++ Here
menu = Here
title = Our Network
probe  = FPing_00

+++ BACKUP
menu  =  Backup Server
title = backup.example.com
probe = FPing_22
host  = backup.example.com

+++ FIREWALL 1
menu  = Firewall 1
title = firewall1.example.com
probe = FPing_03
host  = firewall1.example.com

+++ FIREWALL 2
menu  = Firewall 2
title = firewall2.example.com
probe = FPing_04
host  = firewall2.example.com

+++ FIREWALL 3
menu = Firewall 3
title = firewall3.example.com
probe = FPing_05
host =  firewall3.example.com

# etc...

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Targets.World
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ World
slaves =
menu = World
title = Worldwide Connectivity

++ Europe
menu = Europe
title =European Connectivity

+++ UK
menu = United Kingdom
title = United Kingdom

++++ BBC
menu = BBC
title = BBC News
probe = FPing_30
host = news.bbc.co.uk

++++ GOOGLE
menu = Google
title = Google (UK)
probe = FPing_40
host = www.google.co.uk

++++ Customer
menu = Customer Mailserver
title = Customer mail server (public interface)
probe = FPing_50
host = mail.example.com

++++ Customer_Internet_1
menu = Customer Public IP (1)
title = Customer Internet connection (1)
probe = FPing_60
host = xx.xx.xx.xx

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Probes
----------------------------------------------------------------------
*** Probes ***

+ FPing
binary = /usr/bin/fping

++FPing_00
offset = 0%

++FPing_02
offset = 2%

++FPing_03
offset = 3%

++FPing_04
offset = 4%

++FPing_05
offset = 5%

++FPing_06
offset = 6%

++FPing_07
offset = 7%

++FPing_08
offset = 8%

++FPing_09
offset = 9%

++FPing_10
offset = 10%

++FPing_11
offset = 11%

++FPing_12
offset = 12%
#packetsize = 10240

++FPing_13
offset = 13%

++FPing_14
offset = 14%

++FPing_15
offset = 15%

++FPing_16
offset = 16%

++FPing_17
offset = 17%

++FPing_18
offset = 18%

++FPing_19
offset = 19%

++FPing_20
offset = 20%

++FPing_22
offset = 22%

++FPing_30
offset = 30%

++FPing_40
offset = 40%

++FPing_50
offset = 50%

++FPing_60
offset = 60%

++FPing_88
offset = 88%

++FPing_89
offset = 89%

+Curl

binary = /usr/bin/curl
forks = 5
step = 300

++Curl_66

offset = 66%
# The following variables can be overridden in each target section
agent = User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.4rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6c
# extraargs = -6 --head --user user:password
extrare = / /
follow_redirects = no
include_redirects = no
insecure_ssl = 0
interface = eth0
pings = 5
ssl2 = 0
timeout = 2
urlformat = http://%host%/ # mandatory

# Just for the Web servers...
+EchoPingHttp

binary = /usr/bin/echoping
forks = 5
offset = 60%
step = 300

++EchoPingHttp_60

# The following variables can be overridden in each target section
accept_redirects = no
# extraopts = -some-letter-the-author-did-not-think-of
ignore_cache = yes
ipversion = 4
pings = 5
port = 80
# priority = 6
revalidate_data = no
timeout = 5
tos = 0
url = /
waittime = 5

++EchoPingHttp_66

offset = 66%

accept_redirects = no

ignore_cache = yes
ipversion = 4
pings = 5
port = 80

revalidate_data = no
timeout = 5
tos = 0
url = /
waittime = 5

# Experimental, ignore or comment out

+TCPPing
binary = /usr/bin/tcpping # mandatory
forks = 5
offset = 50%
step = 300
timeout = 15

# The following variables can be overridden in each target section
pings = 5
port = 80

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Slaves
----------------------------------------------------------------------
*** Slaves ***

secrets = /etc/smokeping/secrets

+ mail4
display_name = slave probe on mail4
location     = Tower1
color        = ff0000

++ override
Probes.FPing.binary = /usr/local/bin/fping
# ...


--

73,
Ged.


From adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com  Sat Oct 16 18:32:16 2010
From: adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com (Adam Hardy)
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:32:16 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>	<4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
Message-ID: <4CB9D390.7080500@cyberspaceroad.com>

G.W. Haywood on 15/10/10 19:23, wrote:
 > [loads of stuff....]
> ++ override
> Probes.FPing.binary = /usr/local/bin/fping
> # ...
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 73,
> Ged.


Thanks Ged. That's fantastic, although I like the idea of my page having the 
title "A poorly mantained site running Debian"




From adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com  Sat Oct 16 18:39:51 2010
From: adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com (Adam Hardy)
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:39:51 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>	<4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
Message-ID: <4CB9D557.8090107@cyberspaceroad.com>

Actually I'm having a hard time here with setup after installing the debian 
smokeping package.

The docs says /var/www/smokeping must be set up to be writable by smokeping and 
I've got a user 116 with no name running the smokeping daemon, but I see 
smokeping is user 116 in my /etc/passwd, and group 121.

I see this in apache's dir:

adam at isengard:~$ ls -la /var/www/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  3 root     root 4096 2010-05-18 00:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root     root 4096 2010-05-18 00:37 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root   45 2010-05-18 00:37 index.html
drwxr-xr-x  3 www-data root 4096 2010-05-18 00:37 smokeping

When I browse http://localhost/smokeping/ I just get a directory listing.

So something's not right here, but what?

Thanks in advance
Adam


From ged at jubileegroup.co.uk  Sat Oct 16 19:19:23 2010
From: ged at jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:19:23 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <4CB9D557.8090107@cyberspaceroad.com>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
	<4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
	<4CB9D557.8090107@cyberspaceroad.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.1010161818520.31641@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>

Hi there,

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Adam Hardy wrote:

> Actually I'm having a hard time here with setup after installing the debian
> smokeping package.

Forget the Debian version.  Install from source.

--

73,
Ged.


From adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com  Sat Oct 16 20:23:59 2010
From: adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com (Adam Hardy)
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:23:59 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.1010161818520.31641@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
	<4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
	<4CB9D557.8090107@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010161818520.31641@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
Message-ID: <4CB9EDBF.1090602@cyberspaceroad.com>

G.W. Haywood on 16/10/10 18:19, wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Adam Hardy wrote:
> 
>> Actually I'm having a hard time here with setup after installing the debian
>> smokeping package.
> 
> Forget the Debian version.  Install from source.

Really? It's installed already - it's running, it's just a couple of config 
tweaks away from working.

Well hopefully.

Installation from scratch looks like a lengthy job compared with the possibly 
just 2 problems with my current installation.

Is your advice from experience or from knowledge that the Debian package is not 
well maintained or some such info?

Thanks
Adam


From ged at jubileegroup.co.uk  Sat Oct 16 21:32:10 2010
From: ged at jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:32:10 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <4CB9EDBF.1090602@cyberspaceroad.com>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
	<4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
	<4CB9D557.8090107@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010161818520.31641@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
	<4CB9EDBF.1090602@cyberspaceroad.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.1010162012250.31641@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>

Hi there,

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Adam Hardy wrote:

> G.W. Haywood on 16/10/10 18:19, wrote:
>
> > Forget the Debian version.  Install from source.
>
> Really? It's installed already - it's running, it's just a couple of config
> tweaks away from working.
>
> Well hopefully.

Yes, hopefully. :)

> Installation from scratch looks like a lengthy job compared with the possibly
> just 2 problems with my current installation.

Relatively lengthy, perhaps.  In the absolute, I'm not so sure.

> Is your advice from experience or from knowledge that the Debian
> package is not well maintained or some such info?

My advice is from personal experience.  About two and a half years ago,
in my first tests of Smokeping, I gave up trying to get Debian version
to work and installed from source without problems.  Admittedly I had
some special requirements because of the complexities of my networks.
This was Debian 'Etch', I haven't tried the version of Smokeping which
is packaged with 'Lenny' although that's what I'm using now on all my
Debian machines.

In general my take on Debian is that it's two years out of date and
all patched to hell.  To put that in context, I run numerous Debian
machines and I believe that the Debian package update system itself is
second to none, which is why I run more Debian machines than any other
distro.  Unfortunately there's more to a system than just the system.
Very recently Debian has said that 'backports' will be made available
at backports.debian.org and that is to me a very welcome development.
It may change my 'take on Debian' but because of things like customers
having disasters and criminals breaking into my premises I haven't yet
had the chance to check it out.

--

73,
Ged.


From ntyni+smokeping-users at mappi.helsinki.fi  Sun Oct 17 21:19:39 2010
From: ntyni+smokeping-users at mappi.helsinki.fi (Niko Tyni)
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:19:39 +0300
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <4CB9D557.8090107@cyberspaceroad.com>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
	<4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
	<4CB9D557.8090107@cyberspaceroad.com>
Message-ID: <20101017191939.GA2896@madeleine.local.invalid>

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 05:39:51PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Actually I'm having a hard time here with setup after installing the debian 
> smokeping package.

> When I browse http://localhost/smokeping/ I just get a directory listing.

The default entry point is /cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi (or, as of version
2.3.6-5 which is to be released with the next Debian stable, alternatively
/smokeping/smokeping.cgi .)

Hope this helps,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org


From ntyni+smokeping-users at mappi.helsinki.fi  Sun Oct 17 21:54:57 2010
From: ntyni+smokeping-users at mappi.helsinki.fi (Niko Tyni)
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:54:57 +0300
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.1010162012250.31641@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
	<4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
	<4CB9D557.8090107@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010161818520.31641@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
	<4CB9EDBF.1090602@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010162012250.31641@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
Message-ID: <20101017195457.GB2896@madeleine.local.invalid>

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 08:32:10PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > G.W. Haywood on 16/10/10 18:19, wrote:

> > > Forget the Debian version.  Install from source.

> > Is your advice from experience or from knowledge that the Debian
> > package is not well maintained or some such info?
> 
> My advice is from personal experience.  About two and a half years ago,
> in my first tests of Smokeping, I gave up trying to get Debian version
> to work and installed from source without problems.  Admittedly I had
> some special requirements because of the complexities of my networks.
> This was Debian 'Etch', I haven't tried the version of Smokeping which
> is packaged with 'Lenny' although that's what I'm using now on all my
> Debian machines.

Leaving the general Debian bashing aside, I've done quite a bit of work
with the Debian smokeping packages and I'm sorry it didn't work for you.

If somebody feels they could and wanted to do a better job, Debian is a
volunteer organisation. I'd love to see a new maintainer for the package
as my own interests have shifted elsewhere. The package has been up for
adoption since February, see http://bugs.debian.org/568742

In the meantime I'm still taking care of any critical issues.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org


From adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com  Sun Oct 17 23:45:57 2010
From: adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com (Adam Hardy)
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:45:57 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <20101017191939.GA2896@madeleine.local.invalid>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
	<4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
	<4CB9D557.8090107@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<20101017191939.GA2896@madeleine.local.invalid>
Message-ID: <4CBB6E95.9090508@cyberspaceroad.com>

Niko Tyni on 17/10/10 20:19, wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 05:39:51PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
>> Actually I'm having a hard time here with setup after installing the debian 
>> smokeping package.
> 
>> When I browse http://localhost/smokeping/ I just get a directory listing.
> 
> The default entry point is /cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi (or, as of version
> 2.3.6-5 which is to be released with the next Debian stable, alternatively
> /smokeping/smokeping.cgi .)
> 
> Hope this helps,


Yes it did help. Thanks v. much. I couldn't find that anywhere in the docs, 
although perhaps I missed it, and my basic knowledge of Apache didn't help.

Do you know what the issue with the username running smokeping? I see this

adam at isengard:~/Jts.906$ ps -eaf |grep ping
116       3472     1  0 18:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smokeping [FPing]

Shouldn't 116 read smokeping instead?


From ntyni+smokeping-users at mappi.helsinki.fi  Mon Oct 18 09:58:43 2010
From: ntyni+smokeping-users at mappi.helsinki.fi (Niko Tyni)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:58:43 +0300
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
In-Reply-To: <4CBB6E95.9090508@cyberspaceroad.com>
References: <7E83B330B8C69546ACC670C1AE3C06CA722E025F1E@SBKMXSMB06.win.dowjones.net>
	<4CB84026.10309@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010151920040.21352@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
	<4CB9D557.8090107@cyberspaceroad.com>
	<20101017191939.GA2896@madeleine.local.invalid>
	<4CBB6E95.9090508@cyberspaceroad.com>
Message-ID: <20101018075843.GA3319@madeleine.local.invalid>

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:45:57PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Do you know what the issue with the username running smokeping? I see this
> 
> adam at isengard:~/Jts.906$ ps -eaf |grep ping
> 116       3472     1  0 18:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smokeping [FPing]
> 
> Shouldn't 116 read smokeping instead?

Looks like ps only shows usernames up to 8 characters long by default.

 http://bugs.debian.org/598089

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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org


From ged at jubileegroup.co.uk  Mon Oct 18 14:10:07 2010
From: ged at jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:10:07 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping config file
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Hi Niko,

On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Niko Tyni wrote:

> Leaving the general Debian bashing aside, I've done quite a bit of work
> with the Debian smokeping packages and I'm sorry it didn't work for you.

Please don't take my post as a reflection on you personally, I didn't
mean to criticize you in any way.  I know that you've done an enormous
amount of work on this, and your efforts really are appreciated.  When
I installed Smokeping from the sources I had no problems.  Or not those
sorts of problems, anyway. :)

> I'd love to see a new maintainer for the package ... The package has
> been up for adoption since February, see http://bugs.debian.org/568742

At about the same time that I began to use Debian, in 2007, I joined
several Debian-sepcific lists.  I made serious attempts to improve the
Debian documentation, some of which is even more out of date than many
applications distributed with 'stable'.  My reward was almost nothing
but spam from the list servers.  I suggested improvement to the list
servers and was ignored.  As far as I could tell, nobody on any of the
Debian documentation lists was even the slightest bit interested in
what I was trying to do (start at the beginning, to make sure that the
installation documentation was up to date and correct; for example the
man page for "sources.list", as of three weeks ago when I last checked,
is dated 2004 and *still* talks about obsolete repositories which do
not exist).  Eventually I walked away from it, and as you've probably
gathered the experience left a sour taste.  I'm afraid while some of
the more 'mainstream' packages like cups and lrpng need adoption then
something like Smokeping, which by its nature is useful to just a
minority of users, must expect to get in line.

In my view, for some of the packages available from Debian it would be
better if they did not offer them at all.  It isn't hard to install a
package from source, and if you can't even be sure the documentation
was written in this century and for the installation that you're
working on then it's very much easier to figure out what's going on if
you've installed from source than if you've installed a Debianized
package which doesn't work.  At least you'll have a fighting chance of
finding everything.  I can't help thinking that it would also be much
easier to keep a beginner-friendly guide to installation from source
up to date than it is to play catch-up with patches.

I suppose this is evidence of an incompatibility in philosophies. :)

--

73,
Ged.


From chris at ecntelecoms.com  Tue Oct 19 11:58:13 2010
From: chris at ecntelecoms.com (Chris Picton)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:58:13 +0200
Subject: [smokeping-users] plotting a continuous ping
Message-ID: <1287482293.28151.34.camel@jabberwock>

Hi all

I would like to have a continuous ping running across my network for
various hosts, and then use smokeping to plot this data.

I can run something like this: 
fping -Q 60 -l  <hostlist>

This gives me an output every 60 seconds which contains stats for the
previous 60 seconds - I would like to try get that output into
smokeping, using a 60 second step in my rrd

However, the smokeping probes run a command at each interval, whereas I
would like to send data into smokeping from an external script at each
interval.

Is this possible - does anyone have any ideas how to achieve this?

Chris




From ged at jubileegroup.co.uk  Tue Oct 19 14:53:49 2010
From: ged at jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:53:49 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] plotting a continuous ping
In-Reply-To: <1287482293.28151.34.camel@jabberwock>
References: <1287482293.28151.34.camel@jabberwock>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.1010191345330.22555@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>

Hi there,

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Chris Picton wrote:

> ... the smokeping probes run a command at each interval, whereas I
> would like to send data into smokeping from an external script at each
> interval.

You can tell the FPing probe to send more than one ping per interval:

http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/FPing.en.html

Isn't that what you want?  If you try to sidestep Smokeping's control
of the probes you'll run into all kinds of issues, for example setting
up the RRD files to contain the right data.

You can use the 'rrdtool graph' command to plot your own data easily
enough, I do that for CPU temperatures and the like, but you won't get
other Smokeping features.  I don't know how important they are to you.

--

73,
Ged.


From chris at ecntelecoms.com  Wed Oct 20 11:05:49 2010
From: chris at ecntelecoms.com (Chris Picton)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:05:49 +0200
Subject: [smokeping-users] plotting a continuous ping
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.1010191345330.22555@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
References: <1287482293.28151.34.camel@jabberwock>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.1010191345330.22555@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>
Message-ID: <1287565549.14877.9.camel@jabberwock>

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 13:53 +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Chris Picton wrote:
> 
> > ... the smokeping probes run a command at each interval, whereas I
> > would like to send data into smokeping from an external script at each
> > interval.
> 
> You can tell the FPing probe to send more than one ping per interval:
> 
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/FPing.en.html
> 
> Isn't that what you want?  If you try to sidestep Smokeping's control
> of the probes you'll run into all kinds of issues, for example setting
> up the RRD files to contain the right data.

I was hoping to get results which were indicative of the entire length
of the rrd interval, to avoid missing short periods of network problems.

I could set the number of fping attemps to be a few less than my rrd
step length to try simulate this, but there may be corner cases where
the probe takes too long, and thus runs over my interval.

What I have done in the meantime is modify fping slightly to respond to
a SIGUSR1.  On receipt of this, it prints out current stats.  I will try
make a smokeping probe to use this, and will see how it fares.

Chris



From anderwd at gmail.com  Thu Oct 21 15:50:04 2010
From: anderwd at gmail.com (David Anderson)
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:50:04 -0500
Subject: [smokeping-users] Oddness with graphing
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=j6KT0kPgvrn0T8ZT301EyJV8KDDuX3coRxQFL@mail.gmail.com>

I have a very small smokeping system set up, just standard install and
default monitoring of servers to let me graph their performance over time so
I can take note and log of any changes. I have about 30 IP devices I am
monitoring and everything was working great.

I added four more servers to a subsection  and only two of them actually
graph. The two that do not graph, still send alerts? I have tried re-naming
them, deleting the entires and recreating them in the smokeping config,
nothing. They sit there as if they are working, but nothing is on the
graph.

Anybody seen this before?
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From tobi at oetiker.ch  Fri Oct 22 07:17:08 2010
From: tobi at oetiker.ch (Tobias Oetiker)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:17:08 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] Oddness with graphing
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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010220715400.8192@wbuna.brgvxre.pu>

Hi David,

Yesterday David Anderson wrote:

> I have a very small smokeping system set up, just standard install and
> default monitoring of servers to let me graph their performance over time so
> I can take note and log of any changes. I have about 30 IP devices I am
> monitoring and everything was working great.
>
> I added four more servers to a subsection  and only two of them actually
> graph. The two that do not graph, still send alerts? I have tried re-naming
> them, deleting the entires and recreating them in the smokeping config,
> nothing. They sit there as if they are working, but nothing is on the
> graph.

your may want to make sure you actually kill the speedy process on
the webserver to ensure the configuation gets reloaded .... (this
should happen automatically, but if you use @include statements
changes in the @includes) will go un-noticed.

cheers
tobi
>
> Anybody seen this before?
>

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