[smokeping-users] Smokeping noob question

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Josh Lupresto wrote:

> I've had smokeping up and running no problem for almost a year now, with
> certain bigloss criteria on all my sites. Then about 2 months ago, out of
> nowhere, I will intermittently not get the smokeping notifications when a
> site has gone down via Postfix. I am doing some packet captures with ngrep
> on port 25. The graphs are always reporting the down sites, just not
> getting me the notifications. So assuming when a site goes down, I see no
> attempts to send the message to Postfix going across port 25, what else can
> I do troubleshooting wise to narrow down the issue. Suggestions?

If this were happening on one of my systems, I would

1. Check the logs
2. Check the configuration files (e.g. dates of last modification.:)
3. Check for any firewall silliness
4. Put some debugging in sub check_alerts in Smokeping.pm

Get back to us if it gets you nowhere.

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73,
Ged.