[smokeping-users] Exclude hosts from sorters

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

I have a few hosts that mess up the default presentation of the
"Charts" feature due to their characteristics.

For example, I am monitoring a host in New Zealand from Europe, while
most of my other monitored hosts are in Europe. Now guess which host
is constantly in the "Top Max Roundtrip Time" chart.

Additionally, I am monitoring a host that is behind an ADSL line which
is occasionally loaded to capacity. This makes this host constantly
showing up in the "Top Standard Deviation" chart.

A third case is a host that is turned off at night, making it top
scorer in the "Top Packet Loss" chart.

Is there a possibility to have the sorter ignore certain hosts by
configuration? I would imagine to have this either configured in the
Chart definition:

++ max
sorter = Max(entries=>5)
title = Top Max Roundtrip Time
menu = by Max
format = Max Roundtrip Time %f seconds
ignore = host1, host2, host3

or in the host definition

+++ brazil

probe = FPing
menu = brazil
title = brazil
host = 192.0.2.3
ignore_chart = stddev,max

Greetings
Marc

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