From david at schweikert.ch  Wed Feb  1 09:43:07 2012
From: david at schweikert.ch (David Schweikert)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:43:07 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] fping6 - where?
In-Reply-To: <CAHJCmSJ16yPFnMLMtcuZi0689aDry=5wkVKw8Gc8BXELhyn7KQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHJCmSKHrOkuyu5CmBNBr06Jyz0cPHWL5tuhH+Yw4P+SGx_zrA@mail.gmail.com>
	<20120131181324.GA1743@ns.umpquanet.com>
	<CAHJCmSJ16yPFnMLMtcuZi0689aDry=5wkVKw8Gc8BXELhyn7KQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20120201084307.GC6894@schweikert.ch>

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 14:52:36 -0500, K. M. Peterson wrote:
> Many thanks.  Actually, the source that I have is
> fping-2.4b2_to4-ipv6, which I think is a bit newer than the version
> you referenced.

You might also want to take my new fping distribution, which includes
Tobi's and the latest Debian patches:

http://fping.org

Also a note about fping6: this is the main change that I plan for
version 3.1: there won't be the need for a separate binary anymore. A
single binary should be able to do both IPv4 and IPv6 and there should
be '-4' and '-6' options to force IPv4-only or IPv6-only name
resolution.

Cheers
David


From ford at isoc.org  Wed Feb  1 13:12:26 2012
From: ford at isoc.org (Matthew Ford)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:12:26 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] Restarting smokeping
Message-ID: <4554E313-7A98-4E0C-935D-2CC0ABF27C8D@isoc.org>

Hi,

I'm at a loss.

I can restart smokeping quite happily from the command line:

# /etc/init.d/smokeping restart
Shutting down latency logger daemon: smokeping.
Starting latency logger daemon: smokeping.

But I cannot get smokeping to restart either using cron directly or by putting the restart command in a shell script, and adding that to my crontab.

Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19052]: (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)
Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19051]: (root) END (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)

Any clue appreciated.

Mat

From lars at thegler.dk  Wed Feb  1 13:48:01 2012
From: lars at thegler.dk (Lars Thegler)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:48:01 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] Restarting smokeping
In-Reply-To: <4554E313-7A98-4E0C-935D-2CC0ABF27C8D@isoc.org>
References: <4554E313-7A98-4E0C-935D-2CC0ABF27C8D@isoc.org>
Message-ID: <CAO7rfHGRtBcWhKkoTgf1SrVDOCK=DtX3AKntxFMn1fSpz4tz8g@mail.gmail.com>

Try removing the '>/dev/null 2>&1' and see if the resulting output (if
any) gives you any clues.

/Lars

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Matthew Ford <ford at isoc.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm at a loss.
>
> I can restart smokeping quite happily from the command line:
>
> # /etc/init.d/smokeping restart
> Shutting down latency logger daemon: smokeping.
> Starting latency logger daemon: smokeping.
>
> But I cannot get smokeping to restart either using cron directly or by putting the restart command in a shell script, and adding that to my crontab.
>
> Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19052]: (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)
> Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19051]: (root) END (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)
>
> Any clue appreciated.
>
> Mat
> _______________________________________________
> smokeping-users mailing list
> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users


From ford at isoc.org  Wed Feb  1 14:23:52 2012
From: ford at isoc.org (Matthew Ford)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:23:52 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] Restarting smokeping
In-Reply-To: <CAO7rfHGRtBcWhKkoTgf1SrVDOCK=DtX3AKntxFMn1fSpz4tz8g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4554E313-7A98-4E0C-935D-2CC0ABF27C8D@isoc.org>
	<CAO7rfHGRtBcWhKkoTgf1SrVDOCK=DtX3AKntxFMn1fSpz4tz8g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5DFEBB14-2EE7-49A2-975F-F495260BBCED@isoc.org>

Initially I was trying to do this without redirecting the output, but there was none.

Mat

On 1 Feb 2012, at 12:48, Lars Thegler wrote:

> Try removing the '>/dev/null 2>&1' and see if the resulting output (if
> any) gives you any clues.
> 
> /Lars
> 
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Matthew Ford <ford at isoc.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm at a loss.
>> 
>> I can restart smokeping quite happily from the command line:
>> 
>> # /etc/init.d/smokeping restart
>> Shutting down latency logger daemon: smokeping.
>> Starting latency logger daemon: smokeping.
>> 
>> But I cannot get smokeping to restart either using cron directly or by putting the restart command in a shell script, and adding that to my crontab.
>> 
>> Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19052]: (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)
>> Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19051]: (root) END (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)
>> 
>> Any clue appreciated.
>> 
>> Mat
>> _______________________________________________
>> smokeping-users mailing list
>> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
>> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users


From darren at victoriajd.com  Wed Feb  1 14:56:44 2012
From: darren at victoriajd.com (Darren Murphy)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 21:56:44 +0800
Subject: [smokeping-users] Restarting smokeping
In-Reply-To: <5DFEBB14-2EE7-49A2-975F-F495260BBCED@isoc.org>
References: <4554E313-7A98-4E0C-935D-2CC0ABF27C8D@isoc.org>
	<CAO7rfHGRtBcWhKkoTgf1SrVDOCK=DtX3AKntxFMn1fSpz4tz8g@mail.gmail.com>
	<5DFEBB14-2EE7-49A2-975F-F495260BBCED@isoc.org>
Message-ID: <CAJYt4JteYjxn=uM3sjf2EyLuSUkxzaNH7SvEkruda3iioZBJvw@mail.gmail.com>

Mat,

Probably a silly question, but how do you know for sure that it isn't
restarting?
eg. Have you compared the PID from before and after the cron task is
executed, and confirmed that it hasn't changed?

cheers,
Darren

On 1 February 2012 21:23, Matthew Ford <ford at isoc.org> wrote:
> Initially I was trying to do this without redirecting the output, but there was none.
>
> Mat
>
> On 1 Feb 2012, at 12:48, Lars Thegler wrote:
>
>> Try removing the '>/dev/null 2>&1' and see if the resulting output (if
>> any) gives you any clues.
>>
>> /Lars
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Matthew Ford <ford at isoc.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm at a loss.
>>>
>>> I can restart smokeping quite happily from the command line:
>>>
>>> # /etc/init.d/smokeping restart
>>> Shutting down latency logger daemon: smokeping.
>>> Starting latency logger daemon: smokeping.
>>>
>>> But I cannot get smokeping to restart either using cron directly or by putting the restart command in a shell script, and adding that to my crontab.
>>>
>>> Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19052]: (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)
>>> Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19051]: (root) END (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)
>>>
>>> Any clue appreciated.
>>>
>>> Mat
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> smokeping-users mailing list
>>> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
>>> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
>
> _______________________________________________
> smokeping-users mailing list
> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users


From ford at isoc.org  Wed Feb  1 15:01:38 2012
From: ford at isoc.org (Matthew Ford)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:01:38 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] Restarting smokeping
In-Reply-To: <CAJYt4JteYjxn=uM3sjf2EyLuSUkxzaNH7SvEkruda3iioZBJvw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4554E313-7A98-4E0C-935D-2CC0ABF27C8D@isoc.org>
	<CAO7rfHGRtBcWhKkoTgf1SrVDOCK=DtX3AKntxFMn1fSpz4tz8g@mail.gmail.com>
	<5DFEBB14-2EE7-49A2-975F-F495260BBCED@isoc.org>
	<CAJYt4JteYjxn=uM3sjf2EyLuSUkxzaNH7SvEkruda3iioZBJvw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2D6F31C3-F94C-45D5-887A-5B870A58992C@isoc.org>

On 1 Feb 2012, at 13:56, Darren Murphy wrote:

> Mat,
> 
> Probably a silly question, but how do you know for sure that it isn't
> restarting?
> eg. Have you compared the PID from before and after the cron task is
> executed, and confirmed that it hasn't changed?
> 

Yes, PID unchanged, process start time unchanged. But...

>> On 1 Feb 2012, at 12:48, Lars Thegler wrote:
>> 
>>> Try removing the '>/dev/null 2>&1' and see if the resulting output (if
>>> any) gives you any clues.
>>> 

This led me to redirect output to a file instead, which helped trace the issue - cron PATH did not include /sbin, so no way to find start-stop-daemon.

All working now :)

Thanks!

Mat


















>>> /Lars
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Matthew Ford <ford at isoc.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm at a loss.
>>>> 
>>>> I can restart smokeping quite happily from the command line:
>>>> 
>>>> # /etc/init.d/smokeping restart
>>>> Shutting down latency logger daemon: smokeping.
>>>> Starting latency logger daemon: smokeping.
>>>> 
>>>> But I cannot get smokeping to restart either using cron directly or by putting the restart command in a shell script, and adding that to my crontab.
>>>> 
>>>> Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19052]: (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)
>>>> Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19051]: (root) END (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)
>>>> 
>>>> Any clue appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> Mat
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> smokeping-users mailing list
>>>> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
>>>> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> smokeping-users mailing list
>> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
>> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users


From lars at thegler.dk  Wed Feb  1 15:50:04 2012
From: lars at thegler.dk (Lars Thegler)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:50:04 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] Restarting smokeping
In-Reply-To: <2D6F31C3-F94C-45D5-887A-5B870A58992C@isoc.org>
References: <4554E313-7A98-4E0C-935D-2CC0ABF27C8D@isoc.org>
	<CAO7rfHGRtBcWhKkoTgf1SrVDOCK=DtX3AKntxFMn1fSpz4tz8g@mail.gmail.com>
	<5DFEBB14-2EE7-49A2-975F-F495260BBCED@isoc.org>
	<CAJYt4JteYjxn=uM3sjf2EyLuSUkxzaNH7SvEkruda3iioZBJvw@mail.gmail.com>
	<2D6F31C3-F94C-45D5-887A-5B870A58992C@isoc.org>
Message-ID: <CAO7rfHEja5RCDRL3=HY8j5Jr0jax1hCa9gm9=QTttrnd2RUJgQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Matthew Ford <ford at isoc.org> wrote:
> This led me to redirect output to a file instead, which helped trace the issue - cron PATH did not include /sbin, so no way to find start-stop-daemon.

Ah, normally, cron will mail any stdout/stderr output, you may want to
look into why you don't receive that.

> All working now :)

Good to hear that :)

/Lars


From kdr at kdr.ms  Sat Feb  4 18:12:20 2012
From: kdr at kdr.ms (Kris De Rocker)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:12:20 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] Smokeping installer
Message-ID: <4F2D66F4.8040803@kdr.ms>

I'm looking for someone who wants to set up a smokeping application on a
system (running centos 6) and that could give me a little howto he've
done it (so i can do it by myself on other systems).  I've tried some
how-to's on the internet, but none seems to work for centos 6.

There is a budget available, but not too high (around 50 euro).
I can give you full access to the server (the master) and a vps (the 
slave).

The meaning of it all is to provide a smokeping solution in around 9
countries where users can sign up to monitor their sites.

Cheers,
Kris


From ged at jubileegroup.co.uk  Sat Feb  4 19:01:39 2012
From: ged at jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 18:01:39 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [smokeping-users] Smokeping installer
In-Reply-To: <4F2D66F4.8040803@kdr.ms>
References: <4F2D66F4.8040803@kdr.ms>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202041717520.11531@mail5.jubileegroup.co.uk>

Hi there,

On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Kris De Rocker wrote:

> I'm looking for someone who wants to set up a smokeping application on a
> system (running centos 6) and that could give me a little howto he've
> done it (so i can do it by myself on other systems).  I've tried some
> how-to's on the internet, but none seems to work for centos 6.

There is plenty of documentation for Smokeping and it's better quality
than a lot of packages I can think of.  Forget Howtos, in general they
suck big-time.  Read the documentation which comes with Smokeping, and
follow the instructions.  One thing that often gets missed is what you
might call the 'bigger picture'.  That is take a step back and look at
what the system is made of.  Here's the bigger picture, in necessarily
rather broad brush-strokes.

Leaving aside slaving for the moment, you basically have three things:

(1) A smokeping daemon, which simply pings some other machines and
saves the resulting data in some RRD files (so you need the RRD tools
on the master machine).  Once this daemon has been installed it must
be started, then it just gets on with it.  It can log information to
files for debugging your installation if you like.  I like logs, they
help a great deal especially if (er, sorry, when) things don't work.
The daemon calls on a number of other 'helpers' so you need them to be
installed in the master (and probably slaves) and smokeping needs to
be avble to find them and use them.  That's all documented.  There are
a couple of little niggles with some of the helpers (instructions from
Smokeping sometimes, rarely, won't match a version of a helper that you
have installed) but you don't need to worry about that at this stage.

(2) A Web server, which runs some scripts to create graph images and
the like from the data in the RRD files.  Like the smokeping daemon,
the scripts are written in Perl, so as well as Apache you need Perl.
Apache needs to be configured correctly -- so that it can read the
data that it needs to read, find and execute the Perl scripts that it
needs to execute, and receive and respond to requests from clients.
Like the smokeping daemon, Apache runs as a daemon too, and it can log
a lot of useful information.

(3) A browser, which asks the Web server for the graphs.  The browser
is of course not necessarily running on the machine which serves the
browser's requests and there may of course be many browsers.

The Smokeping configuration files are logically structured, and a
little time spent reading about them should make it clear what it
required.  You will be much better off doing the work yourself since
WHEN things go wrong you will then be much better placed to fix them.

Most of the problems that new users have with Smokeping seem to me to
be related to filesystem permissions, and the locations of the various
bits of the Smokeping system in the filesystem.  Package maintainers
for the various Linux distributions will use widely differing places
in the filesystems of the different distributions for parts of their
packages.  Startup scripts fall generally into two camps (which causes
enough confusion) but even then there is a variety of flavours.  The
people who write "how I did it" often take no account of such things.

I would recommend downloading the original Smokeping package from the
authors' Website an installing it from the latest tarball rather than
relying on things like .rpm packages for Centos, as you will then get
the most up-to-date version of Smokeping and you will be able to talk
on the mailing list with people who have installed exactly what you
have installed in exactly the way that you have installed it.  Leave
slave servers until you have the master working to your satisfaction.

If you're running SeLinux, try switching it off and have another go as
that can often stop things working if not configured correctly.

Fifty Euros wouldn't even pay for the advice I've just given you gratis. :)

--

73,
Ged.


From newsboonie at gmail.com  Sun Feb  5 20:22:11 2012
From: newsboonie at gmail.com (Boonie)
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 20:22:11 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] Alerts - not working as I expected
Message-ID: <C74D34660E7F4926AD6B26FAA3512F7F@AMD>

Hi,

I don't understand what's wrong with this bit of config. It results in the error message below.

I'm running Version 2.3.6 on Ubuntu.

Thanks,

Dave


The relevant part from the Alerts file
----------------------------------------------
+mediumloss
type = loss
# in percent
pattern = >5%,>5%<=55%,>5%<=55%
comment = There is over 5 percent packet loss but not down

----------------------------------------------

The error message
----------------------------------------------
/etc/smokeping/config.d# /etc/init.d/smokeping restart
 * Shutting down latency logger daemon smokeping                                                                                                                                                        [ OK ]
 * Starting latency logger daemon smokeping                                                                                                                                                                    ERROR: Alert mediumloss pattern entry '>5%<=55%' is invalid
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From bayzidahsan at yahoo.com  Mon Feb  6 11:32:45 2012
From: bayzidahsan at yahoo.com (Ahsan Bayzid)
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 02:32:45 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] Web Interface Password Needed.
Message-ID: <1328524365.29287.YahooMailNeo@web111405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>



Dear Concern,

I have installed and configure somkeping in ubuntu 11.10 and found the web interface from outside any PC(internet IP). But the problem is that no password is needed to see the web interface. I want to put username and password into the web interface and restrict other to see my server. I also see some more pages to find a solution but nothing worked.?

So please give me a solution so that I can put username password into the web interface and also I can add remove new user/permission etc.

N.B. : I am not very?familiar?with cgi-bin.

Regards?

Bayzid
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From tobi at oetiker.ch  Mon Feb  6 11:46:59 2012
From: tobi at oetiker.ch (Tobias Oetiker)
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:46:59 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [smokeping-users] Web Interface Password Needed.
In-Reply-To: <1328524365.29287.YahooMailNeo@web111405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
References: <1328524365.29287.YahooMailNeo@web111405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1202061145570.29784@froburg.oetiker.ch>

Hi Bayzid,

Today Ahsan Bayzid wrote:

>
>
> Dear Concern,
>
> I have installed and configure somkeping in ubuntu 11.10 and
> found the web interface from outside any PC(internet IP). But the
> problem is that no password is needed to see the web interface. I
> want to put username and password into the web interface and
> restrict other to see my server. I also see some more pages to
> find a solution but nothing worked.?
>
> So please give me a solution so that I can put username password
> into the web interface and also I can add remove new
> user/permission etc.
>
> N.B. : I am not very?familiar?with cgi-bin.

use .htaccess to configure user authentication for the directory
where the smokeping.cgi resides check the documetnation of your
webserver


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 dano at northpb.com  Mon Feb  6 16:43:47 2012
From: dano at northpb.com (Dan O'Neill)
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 07:43:47 -0800
Subject: [smokeping-users] Web Interface Password Needed.
In-Reply-To: <1328524365.29287.YahooMailNeo@web111405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
References: <1328524365.29287.YahooMailNeo@web111405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <CACCnszHA_u-J0K3Q7Anzmwo5QVBq2qBMtFj8ZN+QLb3dwjv=Kg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ahsan,

To do this you will need to configure your web server to use Basic
Authentication. Here is the tutorial for the Apache web server.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html

dano

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Ahsan Bayzid <bayzidahsan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Concern,
>
> I have installed and configure somkeping in ubuntu 11.10 and found the web
> interface from outside any PC(internet IP). But the problem is that no
> password is needed to see the web interface. I want to put username and
> password into the web interface and restrict other to see my server. I also
> see some more pages to find a solution but nothing worked.
>
> So please give me a solution so that I can put username password into the
> web interface and also I can add remove new user/permission etc.
>
> N.B. : I am not very?familiar?with cgi-bin.
>
> Regards
>
> Bayzid
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> smokeping-users mailing list
> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
>



-- 
Dan O'Neill
dano at northpb.com
619-885-1961


From lee at racksrv.net  Thu Feb  9 10:12:54 2012
From: lee at racksrv.net (Lee Gardiner)
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:12:54 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] Negative Values on the Y axis
In-Reply-To: <4F2801F9.9090900@racksrv.net>
References: <4F2801F9.9090900@racksrv.net>
Message-ID: <4F338E16.5030102@racksrv.net>

Hello,

Any ideas :-) ?

Regards
Lee Gardiner

On 31/01/2012 15:00, Lee Gardiner wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Just a quick one, we're seeing negative values on our Y axis of our
> graphing as follows:
>
> http://www.racksrv.com/Web1_KSP_mini.png - graphs have been reset of
> late also.
>
> As you can see the 0 has a - 1 also, I was wondering how we would ensure
> that this starts from 0.
>
> I apologise if this is something simple I've overlooked, any assistance
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Lee Gardiner
>
> _______________________________________________
> smokeping-users mailing list
> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users


From lars at thegler.dk  Thu Feb  9 10:55:31 2012
From: lars at thegler.dk (Lars Thegler)
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:55:31 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] Negative Values on the Y axis
In-Reply-To: <4F2801F9.9090900@racksrv.net>
References: <4F2801F9.9090900@racksrv.net>
Message-ID: <CAO7rfHEs-cJ2bF9Ov0R9aLZK53oU87H4fJ4WisMw2mus5oqP_A@mail.gmail.com>

Your data looks normal, so this is probably a side effect of how
RRDtool scales the graph, which sometimes is a bit...
counter-intuitive. You might want to play around with the RRDs::graph
parameters to see if you can fix it. Are you running the latest
version?

/Lars

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Lee Gardiner <lee at racksrv.net> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Just a quick one, we're seeing negative values on our Y axis of our
> graphing as follows:
>
> http://www.racksrv.com/Web1_KSP_mini.png - graphs have been reset of
> late also.
>
> As you can see the 0 has a - 1 also, I was wondering how we would ensure
> that this starts from 0.
>
> I apologise if this is something simple I've overlooked, any assistance
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Lee Gardiner
>
> _______________________________________________
> smokeping-users mailing list
> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users


From ged at jubileegroup.co.uk  Thu Feb  9 11:31:35 2012
From: ged at jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:31:35 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [smokeping-users] Negative Values on the Y axis
In-Reply-To: <4F338E16.5030102@racksrv.net>
References: <4F2801F9.9090900@racksrv.net> <4F338E16.5030102@racksrv.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202091029280.9372@mail5.jubileegroup.co.uk>

Hi there,

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Lee Gardiner wrote:

>> ... we're seeing negative values on our Y axis ... I was wondering
>> how we would ensure that this starts from 0.
...
> Any ideas :-) ?

Why not try grepping the source for "--lower-limit" ?

Smokeping.pm could be a good place to start. :)

--

73,
Ged.


From lee at racksrv.net  Thu Feb  9 11:58:12 2012
From: lee at racksrv.net (Lee Gardiner)
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:58:12 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] Negative Values on the Y axis
Message-ID: <4F33A6C4.5040601@racksrv.net>

Hello,

RRDtool update has seems to have sorted it, also the --lower-limit is 
set to 0 already.

Many thanks for your swift responses guys, much appreciated.

Regards
Lee Gardiner
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From nik at mitev.eu  Thu Feb  9 15:18:12 2012
From: nik at mitev.eu (Nik Mitev)
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:18:12 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] TCPPing bug
Message-ID: <20120209141812.4c30ee12@nm261>

On the current fully updated version of Debian squeeze TCPPing is
failing to produce results. Tried with latest version from
http://www.vdberg.org/~richard/tcpping, it seems the output of
traceroute is different from what is expected.

root at host:/usr/local/bin# ./tcpping -x 5 -C x.x.x.x 80
x.x.x.x : - - - - -

After replacing line 66:
rtt=`echo "${ttr}" | sed 's/.*] //' | awk '{print $1}'`

with:

rtt=`echo "${ttr}" | sed "/traceroute/d" | sed 's/.*)  //' | awk
'{print $1}'`

it works as expected:

root at host:/usr/local/bin# ./tcpping -x 5 -C x.x.x.x 80
x.x.x.x : 38.507 11.934 81.174 49.297 18.255

and graphing fine.

Two modifications, sed "/traceroute/d" added to remove first line of
output, and changed '] ' to ')  ' in the second expression to
correctly process the line.

Nik


From tobi at oetiker.ch  Fri Feb 10 13:50:17 2012
From: tobi at oetiker.ch (Tobias Oetiker)
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:50:17 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [smokeping-users] Pulse theme - Check with other versions
In-Reply-To: <f3c9cb605e3db1da4c2baf6b02a87c8b@chvpn.org>
References: <f3c9cb605e3db1da4c2baf6b02a87c8b@chvpn.org>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1202101349590.29784@froburg.oetiker.ch>

Hi Flavio,

Jan 29 Flavio Waechter wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I've made a small Smokeping theme named "Pulse" (in fact i just changed
> the layout of the basepage.html). I designed the theme around Smokeping
> v.2.3.6 (as packaged by Debian Sqeeze) and tested it Chrome 16.0.912.77
> and Firefox 9.0.0.1 and it looks good and provides all features.

looks nice!

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 fwaechter at chvpn.org  Fri Feb 10 22:19:28 2012
From: fwaechter at chvpn.org (Flavio Waechter)
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:19:28 +0200
Subject: [smokeping-users] Pulse theme - Check with other versions
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1202101349590.29784@froburg.oetiker.ch>
References: <f3c9cb605e3db1da4c2baf6b02a87c8b@chvpn.org>
	<alpine.DEB.2.02.1202101349590.29784@froburg.oetiker.ch>
Message-ID: <9a6fdc3876e88d1abe62409af88216a6@chvpn.org>

Hello All,

Thank your for all your responses and help. Especially to Lionel 
Gentil. :)

Best regards,
Flavio Waechter


On 10.02.2012 14:50, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> Hi Flavio,
>
> Jan 29 Flavio Waechter wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I've made a small Smokeping theme named "Pulse" (in fact i just 
>> changed
>> the layout of the basepage.html). I designed the theme around 
>> Smokeping
>> v.2.3.6 (as packaged by Debian Sqeeze) and tested it Chrome 
>> 16.0.912.77
>> and Firefox 9.0.0.1 and it looks good and provides all features.
>
> looks nice!
>
> 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 smokeping at adamspiers.org  Sun Feb 12 23:59:33 2012
From: smokeping at adamspiers.org (Adam Spiers)
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:59:33 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] where does development happen these days?
Message-ID: <CAOkDyE8JKxMni56BvM-XqOeKpEy0jqZam5ArH9WEnHtau4-yFA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
>> send your patches to the mailinglist ...
>>
>> the subversion repo is on
>>
>> https://svn.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
>
> Tobi,
>
> Could you please put this information into a "HACKING" or
> "README.DEVEL" file at, say,
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/trunk/ ?

I second this (old) request.  It's still not at all clear how to
contribute to this project :-( In fact, it's more confusing than ever,
because I just found

  https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing

If that is the new official repository, that's great news, since git
is so much nicer than svn, and sending pull requests is WAY nicer than
emailing patches around :-)

And please can we use the github issue tracker too?


From smokeping at adamspiers.org  Mon Feb 13 00:04:35 2012
From: smokeping at adamspiers.org (Adam Spiers)
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:04:35 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] autorefresh bug on navigator graph
Message-ID: <CAOkDyE-f5-2ecXFqR8EfZp+8Fy+OQjYfp7E7teixRfNwdbY-xg@mail.gmail.com>

I see that there is now a navigator graph which I can click-drag to
zoom - awesome!  (Maybe that's an old feature but I'm not a heavy
smokeping user so I only just noticed.)

However, the autorefresh thing every ten seconds or so causes it to
reset the zoom to the original level.  Needless to say, this has a
significant impact on usability of the feature.  Could it be easily
fixed?

Thanks,
Adam


From tobi at oetiker.ch  Mon Feb 13 06:53:41 2012
From: tobi at oetiker.ch (Tobias Oetiker)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:53:41 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [smokeping-users] where does development happen these days?
In-Reply-To: <CAOkDyE8JKxMni56BvM-XqOeKpEy0jqZam5ArH9WEnHtau4-yFA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAOkDyE8JKxMni56BvM-XqOeKpEy0jqZam5ArH9WEnHtau4-yFA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1202130645450.29784@froburg.oetiker.ch>

Hi Adam,

Yesterday Adam Spiers wrote:

> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
> >> send your patches to the mailinglist ...
> >>
> >> the subversion repo is on
> >>
> >> https://svn.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
> >
> > Tobi,
> >
> > Could you please put this information into a "HACKING" or
> > "README.DEVEL" file at, say,
> > http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/trunk/ ?
>
> I second this (old) request.  It's still not at all clear how to
> contribute to this project :-( In fact, it's more confusing than ever,
> because I just found
>
>   https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing
>
> If that is the new official repository, that's great news, since git
> is so much nicer than svn, and sending pull requests is WAY nicer than
> emailing patches around :-)

it is https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing

>
> And please can we use the github issue tracker too?

you can :-)

I added a HACKING file

cheers
tobi

>
> _______________________________________________
> smokeping-users mailing list
> 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 dpacheco at unap.cl  Fri Feb 17 21:18:25 2012
From: dpacheco at unap.cl (Dago Pacheco)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:18:25 -0300
Subject: [smokeping-users] Smokeping graphs not showing up
Message-ID: <4F3EB611.9090402@unap.cl>

Hi everybody:

I'm having troubles setting up smokeping.  I installed version 2.6.8 
from source on a CentOS 5.7 machine.  Compilation process finished 
without problems and smokeping is started as a daemon correctly (I also 
started in debug mode, and there where no errors).  The web page is 
rendered correctly but graphs doesn't show up. I checked imgcache dir, 
and png files are correctly generated.
As I said, I compiled smokeping from sources following official 
documentation from 
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_install.en.html.

This are my General configuration values

*** General ***

owner    = Aministrador Servidores
contact  = some at mail
mailhost = some.mail.host
sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
# NOTE: do not put the Image Cache below cgi-bin
# since all files under cgi-bin will be executed ... this is not
# good for images.
imgcache = /opt/smokeping/cache
imgurl   = ../cache
datadir  = /opt/smokeping/data
piddir  = /opt/smokeping/var
cgiurl   = http://smokeping.some.host/smokeping.cgi
smokemail = /opt/smokeping/etc/smokemail
tmail = /opt/smokeping/etc/tmail
# specify this to get syslog logging
syslogfacility = local7
# each probe is now run in its own process
# disable this to revert to the old behaviour
concurrentprobes = yes
changeprocessnames = yes



This is the folder list from /opt/smokeping

[root at isaac:/opt/smokeping]# ll
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4096 feb 17 16:04 cache
drwxrwxr-x 4 root   root   4096 feb 17 12:53 data
drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 16:57 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 12:49 htdocs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 share
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   1153 feb 17 16:16 smoke.log
drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:41 thirdparty
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root   4096 feb 17 13:04 var



I tried changing permissions and imgcahe and imgurl values, but didn't work.
Don't know what to do.  Any advise would be appreciated.
Thanks :)


From ged at jubileegroup.co.uk  Fri Feb 17 22:12:23 2012
From: ged at jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:12:23 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [smokeping-users] Smokeping graphs not showing up
In-Reply-To: <4F3EB611.9090402@unap.cl>
References: <4F3EB611.9090402@unap.cl>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202172111280.8525@mail5.jubileegroup.co.uk>

Hi there,

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Dago Pacheco wrote:

> I'm having troubles setting up smokeping.  I installed version 2.6.8
> from source on a CentOS 5.7 machine.  Compilation process finished
> without problems and smokeping is started as a daemon correctly (I also
> started in debug mode, and there where no errors).  The web page is
> rendered correctly but graphs doesn't show up. I checked imgcache dir,
> and png files are correctly generated.

Check the Web server logs?

--

73,
Ged.


From mgd at interbaun.com  Sat Feb 18 00:24:23 2012
From: mgd at interbaun.com (mgd at interbaun.com)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:24:23 -0800
Subject: [smokeping-users] Smokeping graphs not showing up
In-Reply-To: <4F3EB611.9090402@unap.cl>
References: <4F3EB611.9090402@unap.cl>
Message-ID: <20120217152423.363365xwshd0bu7b@webmail.uniserve.com>

Check our permissions on /var/lib/smokeping. My chown permissions are:  
smokeping:smokeping, except for _cgi where they are  
smokeping:www-data. The smokeping user must be able to r/w to the .rrd  
files.

Quoting Dago Pacheco <dpacheco at unap.cl>:

> Hi everybody:
>
> I'm having troubles setting up smokeping.  I installed version 2.6.8
> from source on a CentOS 5.7 machine.  Compilation process finished
> without problems and smokeping is started as a daemon correctly (I also
> started in debug mode, and there where no errors).  The web page is
> rendered correctly but graphs doesn't show up. I checked imgcache dir,
> and png files are correctly generated.
> As I said, I compiled smokeping from sources following official
> documentation from
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_install.en.html.
>
> This are my General configuration values
>
> *** General ***
>
> owner    = Aministrador Servidores
> contact  = some at mail
> mailhost = some.mail.host
> sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
> # NOTE: do not put the Image Cache below cgi-bin
> # since all files under cgi-bin will be executed ... this is not
> # good for images.
> imgcache = /opt/smokeping/cache
> imgurl   = ../cache
> datadir  = /opt/smokeping/data
> piddir  = /opt/smokeping/var
> cgiurl   = http://smokeping.some.host/smokeping.cgi
> smokemail = /opt/smokeping/etc/smokemail
> tmail = /opt/smokeping/etc/tmail
> # specify this to get syslog logging
> syslogfacility = local7
> # each probe is now run in its own process
> # disable this to revert to the old behaviour
> concurrentprobes = yes
> changeprocessnames = yes
>
>
>
> This is the folder list from /opt/smokeping
>
> [root at isaac:/opt/smokeping]# ll
> total 40
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 bin
> drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4096 feb 17 16:04 cache
> drwxrwxr-x 4 root   root   4096 feb 17 12:53 data
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 16:57 etc
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 12:49 htdocs
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 lib
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 share
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   1153 feb 17 16:16 smoke.log
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:41 thirdparty
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root   4096 feb 17 13:04 var
>
>
>
> I tried changing permissions and imgcahe and imgurl values, but didn't work.
> Don't know what to do.  Any advise would be appreciated.
> Thanks :)
>
> _______________________________________________
> smokeping-users mailing list
> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
>




From mgd at interbaun.com  Sat Feb 18 00:24:44 2012
From: mgd at interbaun.com (mgd at interbaun.com)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:24:44 -0800
Subject: [smokeping-users] Smokeping graphs not showing up
In-Reply-To: <4F3EB611.9090402@unap.cl>
References: <4F3EB611.9090402@unap.cl>
Message-ID: <20120217152444.15861zc9877ow4ak@webmail.uniserve.com>

Check your permissions on /var/lib/smokeping. My chown permissions  
are: smokeping:smokeping, except for _cgi where they are  
smokeping:www-data. The smokeping user must be able to r/w to the .rrd  
files.

Quoting Dago Pacheco <dpacheco at unap.cl>:

> Hi everybody:
>
> I'm having troubles setting up smokeping.  I installed version 2.6.8
> from source on a CentOS 5.7 machine.  Compilation process finished
> without problems and smokeping is started as a daemon correctly (I also
> started in debug mode, and there where no errors).  The web page is
> rendered correctly but graphs doesn't show up. I checked imgcache dir,
> and png files are correctly generated.
> As I said, I compiled smokeping from sources following official
> documentation from
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_install.en.html.
>
> This are my General configuration values
>
> *** General ***
>
> owner    = Aministrador Servidores
> contact  = some at mail
> mailhost = some.mail.host
> sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
> # NOTE: do not put the Image Cache below cgi-bin
> # since all files under cgi-bin will be executed ... this is not
> # good for images.
> imgcache = /opt/smokeping/cache
> imgurl   = ../cache
> datadir  = /opt/smokeping/data
> piddir  = /opt/smokeping/var
> cgiurl   = http://smokeping.some.host/smokeping.cgi
> smokemail = /opt/smokeping/etc/smokemail
> tmail = /opt/smokeping/etc/tmail
> # specify this to get syslog logging
> syslogfacility = local7
> # each probe is now run in its own process
> # disable this to revert to the old behaviour
> concurrentprobes = yes
> changeprocessnames = yes
>
>
>
> This is the folder list from /opt/smokeping
>
> [root at isaac:/opt/smokeping]# ll
> total 40
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 bin
> drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4096 feb 17 16:04 cache
> drwxrwxr-x 4 root   root   4096 feb 17 12:53 data
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 16:57 etc
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 12:49 htdocs
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 lib
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 share
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   1153 feb 17 16:16 smoke.log
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:41 thirdparty
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root   4096 feb 17 13:04 var
>
>
>
> I tried changing permissions and imgcahe and imgurl values, but didn't work.
> Don't know what to do.  Any advise would be appreciated.
> Thanks :)
>
> _______________________________________________
> smokeping-users mailing list
> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
>




From shariq.siddiqui at yahoo.com  Sun Feb 19 20:31:55 2012
From: shariq.siddiqui at yahoo.com (Shariq Siddiqui)
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:31:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [smokeping-users] Smokeping2.6 PERL5LIB Issue and SMS alerts
Message-ID: <1329679915.69760.YahooMailNeo@web39808.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Fellows,
My Name is Shariq.
I am new for smokeping and have some questions.
I downloaded smokeping 2.6 and also read the installation instructions but when I run the ./configure file it returns with the errors of CGI::Fast and FCGI modules not present and I have to?set PERL5LIB veriable.
?
After that I also run ./scripts/script-to-download-modules.sh file to download the related perl modules to the directory /opt/smokeping/thirdparty every thing seems OK and it shows that FCGI and CGI::Fast perl modules?are up-to-date but during the installation results are same.
?
What I am missing and where I have to set PERL5LIB??I tried?configure file to edit but may be my syntax was wrong or somthing else.?
?
Again, by the help of script I downloaded the modules in /opt/smokeping/thirdparty directory.
Where I have to set PERL5LIB and how to set? what is the right sysntax for it?
?
2. I also want to configure SMS alerts and/or email alerts?(I have SMS gateway and we are using sendsms for other applications?to send us alerts and its working fine with us)
?
Sorry for asking so many things in first mail. But your help will be highly appriciated and It will make me to help others.

Best Regards,

Shariq Siddiqui
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From dpacheco at unap.cl  Mon Feb 20 14:05:45 2012
From: dpacheco at unap.cl (Dago Pacheco)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:05:45 -0300
Subject: [smokeping-users] Smokeping graphs not showing up
In-Reply-To: <20120217152444.15861zc9877ow4ak@webmail.uniserve.com>
References: <4F3EB611.9090402@unap.cl>
	<20120217152444.15861zc9877ow4ak@webmail.uniserve.com>
Message-ID: <4F424529.9070006@unap.cl>

Ok ... I managed to troubleshoot my problem and I get to a solution.
The problem was that "imgurl" config value was incorrectly set.  What I 
had was "/opt/smokeping/cache/".  With this value my web server couldn't 
load images, because it was unable to find that dir.  What I did to 
solve this was to create a symlink from smokeping web root to smokeping 
cache dir, like this:

    ln -s /opt/smokeping/cache /<webdocs_root>/smokeping/cache


And then set "imgurl" config value to "cache" (which is the relative 
path for smokeping.cgi .... absolute value should be 
http://smokeping.some.domain/cache).  And that's it, graphs start to 
show up.

I'd like to point out that official installation instruction are quite 
tricky, and can lead confusions and, consequently, unnecessary 
troubleshooting situation, like my case. I think that more detailed 
instructions which, at least, shows up some default example settings, 
would save a lot of time.

Thanks everybody.

El 17/02/12 20:24, mgd at interbaun.com escribi?:
> Check your permissions on /var/lib/smokeping. My chown permissions
> are: smokeping:smokeping, except for _cgi where they are
> smokeping:www-data. The smokeping user must be able to r/w to the .rrd
> files.
>
> Quoting Dago Pacheco<dpacheco at unap.cl>:
>
>> Hi everybody:
>>
>> I'm having troubles setting up smokeping.  I installed version 2.6.8
>> from source on a CentOS 5.7 machine.  Compilation process finished
>> without problems and smokeping is started as a daemon correctly (I also
>> started in debug mode, and there where no errors).  The web page is
>> rendered correctly but graphs doesn't show up. I checked imgcache dir,
>> and png files are correctly generated.
>> As I said, I compiled smokeping from sources following official
>> documentation from
>> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_install.en.html.
>>
>> This are my General configuration values
>>
>> *** General ***
>>
>> owner    = Aministrador Servidores
>> contact  = some at mail
>> mailhost = some.mail.host
>> sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
>> # NOTE: do not put the Image Cache below cgi-bin
>> # since all files under cgi-bin will be executed ... this is not
>> # good for images.
>> imgcache = /opt/smokeping/cache
>> imgurl   = ../cache
>> datadir  = /opt/smokeping/data
>> piddir  = /opt/smokeping/var
>> cgiurl   = http://smokeping.some.host/smokeping.cgi
>> smokemail = /opt/smokeping/etc/smokemail
>> tmail = /opt/smokeping/etc/tmail
>> # specify this to get syslog logging
>> syslogfacility = local7
>> # each probe is now run in its own process
>> # disable this to revert to the old behaviour
>> concurrentprobes = yes
>> changeprocessnames = yes
>>
>>
>>
>> This is the folder list from /opt/smokeping
>>
>> [root at isaac:/opt/smokeping]# ll
>> total 40
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 bin
>> drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4096 feb 17 16:04 cache
>> drwxrwxr-x 4 root   root   4096 feb 17 12:53 data
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 16:57 etc
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 12:49 htdocs
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 lib
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:44 share
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   1153 feb 17 16:16 smoke.log
>> drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   4096 feb 17 11:41 thirdparty
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root   4096 feb 17 13:04 var
>>
>>
>>
>> I tried changing permissions and imgcahe and imgurl values, but didn't work.
>> Don't know what to do.  Any advise would be appreciated.
>> Thanks :)
>>
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From galcorlo at cesca.cat  Mon Feb 20 16:58:49 2012
From: galcorlo at cesca.cat (Gerard Alcorlo Bofill)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:58:49 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] How to get info from the config file when an
	alert is triggered
Message-ID: <4F426DB9.1090706@cesca.cat>

Hello,

we are using a custom script to alert when a problem exists. Nowadays
I'm interested in getting a "variable" that appears in the config
smokeping file.

When an alert is triggered, I need to give extra information and I
thought to add this information as a "remark" or as a "note" in the
config file for every "Target". The only problem is, how can I get this
information from my custom_script?

to = |/home/gerard/custom_script.pl

Thank you for your help

-- 
Gerard


From alter3d at alter3d.ca  Mon Feb 20 17:08:32 2012
From: alter3d at alter3d.ca (Peter Kristolaitis)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:08:32 -0500
Subject: [smokeping-users] How to get info from the config file when an
 alert is triggered
In-Reply-To: <4F426DB9.1090706@cesca.cat>
References: <4F426DB9.1090706@cesca.cat>
Message-ID: <4F427000.4090107@alter3d.ca>

grep [ -A | -B ]   ;)


On 2/20/2012 10:58 AM, Gerard Alcorlo Bofill wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we are using a custom script to alert when a problem exists. Nowadays
> I'm interested in getting a "variable" that appears in the config
> smokeping file.
>
> When an alert is triggered, I need to give extra information and I
> thought to add this information as a "remark" or as a "note" in the
> config file for every "Target". The only problem is, how can I get this
> information from my custom_script?
>
> to = |/home/gerard/custom_script.pl
>
> Thank you for your help
>

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From gregs at sloop.net  Mon Feb 20 19:08:35 2012
From: gregs at sloop.net (Gregory Sloop)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:08:35 -0800
Subject: [smokeping-users] How to get info from the config file when an
	alert is triggered
In-Reply-To: <4F426DB9.1090706@cesca.cat>
References: <4F426DB9.1090706@cesca.cat>
Message-ID: <1874164660.20120220100835@sloop.net>

+1 for this. I'd like to be able to push out more stuff, specifically
the host name.

-Greg

GAB> Hello,

GAB> we are using a custom script to alert when a problem exists. Nowadays
GAB> I'm interested in getting a "variable" that appears in the config
GAB> smokeping file.

GAB> When an alert is triggered, I need to give extra information and I
GAB> thought to add this information as a "remark" or as a "note" in the
GAB> config file for every "Target". The only problem is, how can I get this
GAB> information from my custom_script?

GAB> to = |/home/gerard/custom_script.pl

GAB> Thank you for your help



From alter3d at alter3d.ca  Tue Feb 21 00:03:47 2012
From: alter3d at alter3d.ca (Peter Kristolaitis)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:03:47 -0500
Subject: [smokeping-users] How to get info from the config file when an
 alert is triggered
In-Reply-To: <1874164660.20120220100835@sloop.net>
References: <4F426DB9.1090706@cesca.cat> <1874164660.20120220100835@sloop.net>
Message-ID: <4F42D153.3080202@alter3d.ca>

If all you're looking for is the hostname, it's passed as one of the 
parameters to the alert script (along with other information about the 
alert).  See the Smokeping documentation for details.

- Pete


On 2/20/2012 1:08 PM, Gregory Sloop wrote:
> +1 for this. I'd like to be able to push out more stuff, specifically
> the host name.
>
> -Greg
>
> GAB>  Hello,
>
> GAB>  we are using a custom script to alert when a problem exists. Nowadays
> GAB>  I'm interested in getting a "variable" that appears in the config
> GAB>  smokeping file.
>
> GAB>  When an alert is triggered, I need to give extra information and I
> GAB>  thought to add this information as a "remark" or as a "note" in the
> GAB>  config file for every "Target". The only problem is, how can I get this
> GAB>  information from my custom_script?
>
> GAB>  to = |/home/gerard/custom_script.pl
>
> GAB>  Thank you for your help
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> smokeping-users mailing list
> smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users

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From gregs at sloop.net  Tue Feb 21 03:12:41 2012
From: gregs at sloop.net (Gregory Sloop)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:12:41 -0800
Subject: [smokeping-users] How to get info from the config file when an
	alert is triggered
In-Reply-To: <4F42D153.3080202@alter3d.ca>
References: <4F426DB9.1090706@cesca.cat> <1874164660.20120220100835@sloop.net>
	<4F42D153.3080202@alter3d.ca>
Message-ID: <77326398.20120220181241@sloop.net>

[hangs head in shame!]
You're absolutely right.

Somehow I completely missed that!

[I'm even getting it in my current alerts, but never really "saw" it.
I'm blaming my lobotomy for the oversight! :) Oops! ]

I should re-order them, so I actually see it from now on.

Thanks!

-Greg


From smokeping at adamspiers.org  Fri Feb 24 12:07:07 2012
From: smokeping at adamspiers.org (Adam Spiers)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:07:07 +0000
Subject: [smokeping-users] autorefresh bug on navigator graph
In-Reply-To: <CAOkDyE-f5-2ecXFqR8EfZp+8Fy+OQjYfp7E7teixRfNwdbY-xg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAOkDyE-f5-2ecXFqR8EfZp+8Fy+OQjYfp7E7teixRfNwdbY-xg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAOkDyE-WAxvOFDuu1APiZ8oioMPUTOFk-UBTtCov=pjTMm8KQw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Adam Spiers <smokeping at adamspiers.org> wrote:
> I see that there is now a navigator graph which I can click-drag to
> zoom - awesome! ?(Maybe that's an old feature but I'm not a heavy
> smokeping user so I only just noticed.)
>
> However, the autorefresh thing every ten seconds or so causes it to
> reset the zoom to the original level. ?Needless to say, this has a
> significant impact on usability of the feature. ?Could it be easily
> fixed?

Now submitted as https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/issues/5


From lomonaco at ipplus.com.br  Sun Feb 26 17:21:44 2012
From: lomonaco at ipplus.com.br (Andre Gustavo Lomonaco)
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:21:44 -0300
Subject: [smokeping-users] Get Average RTT and Loss from a External Program
References: <CAOkDyE-f5-2ecXFqR8EfZp+8Fy+OQjYfp7E7teixRfNwdbY-xg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAOkDyE-WAxvOFDuu1APiZ8oioMPUTOFk-UBTtCov=pjTMm8KQw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <E333C56176E74CA99E7E98DAECF46F62@ibm7781ee2a4c1>

Hi guys,

I included my WAN Links as a Configuration Item in my CMDB.
I wanna, if possible, import both the RTT and Loss Average from SmokePing to 
the those CIs.
Can you recommend the best way to do that ??
I think one option is parse the HTML pages build by SmokePing, but I believe 
that there are best options..

My Best Regards

Andre Lomonaco





From galcorlo at cesca.cat  Mon Feb 27 10:56:51 2012
From: galcorlo at cesca.cat (Gerard Alcorlo Bofill)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:56:51 +0100
Subject: [smokeping-users] How to get info from the config file when an
 alert is triggered
Message-ID: <4F4B5363.6050108@cesca.cat>

Thank you guys for your answer.

I would rather don't use grep command because different people can
change the config file and I couldn't be completly sure that they add
the "remark" at the correct line. However, for the moment is the easiest
option.

The information that I need to pass isn't the hostname, so the default
parameters are not enough.

($alert_s_name,$target,$loss_pattern,$rtt_pattern,$hostname)

-- 
Gerard


From ged at jubileegroup.co.uk  Mon Feb 27 12:33:37 2012
From: ged at jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:33:37 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [smokeping-users] How to get info from the config file when an
 alert is triggered
In-Reply-To: <4F4B5363.6050108@cesca.cat>
References: <4F4B5363.6050108@cesca.cat>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202271131510.14432@mail5.jubileegroup.co.uk>

Hi there,

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Gerard Alcorlo Bofill wrote:

> Thank you guys for your answer.
>
> I would rather don't use grep command because different people can
> change the config file and I couldn't be completly sure that they add
> the "remark" at the correct line. ...

Why not insert some documentation (in the form of comments) into the
file explaining why it is like it is, and how changes should be made?

--

73,
Ged.