[smokeping-users] New probe speedtest

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Adrian,

Today Adrian Popa wrote:

> Great :)
>
> I will look into how to merge my project with yours. If not possible, I will
> try to readup on github to see how to transfer the modules with their change
> history intact.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> There is one thing that might be a problem - the fact that I ignore the
> "pings" variable and "fake" the results. The way it works is that I do only
> one test and copy the results in as many array entries as needed by the pings
> variable. This way you get the data, but no variance in the test interval.
>
> I could enable it - to do $pings tests and let the end user worry about
> getting banned (especially if he tries 20 downloads from youtube in 5
> minutes), or leave it as it is and leave the warning sign.

the number of pings is configurable ... or is this global ?

you could make your probe check that only 1 ping is configured. or
maybe 3 is the minimum, not quite sure ...

also you could check the the interval is not too tight and complain
otherwhise ...

cheers
tobi


> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
> On 06/12/15 00:56, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> > Today Adrian Popa wrote:
> >
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > I'd like to share with you a new probe I've been working on - integrating
> > > speedtest-cli project to work with smokeping. The idea was that we needed
> > > to
> > > run some tests to get the customer's "experience" when using speedtest.net
> > > with different test servers. We developed this probe, and measure the
> > > upload/download rate the client's connection supports.
> > >
> > > Plugin description and examples are here:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/mad-ady/smokeping-speedtest
> > >
> > > There is a bit of a deviation from standard plugins - meaning it ignores
> > > the
> > > pings variable and does only one test. This was done in order to prevent
> > > the
> > > IP getting banned for too agressive behavior by the speedtest.net servers.
> > > It
> > > can be reactivated - I'm open to ideas.
> > >
> > > Here's a sample graph from a slave probe (1 hour polling):
> > >
> > > http://imgur.com/cTJdHCS
> > >
> > > @tobi: if you feel this plugin could be useful and should be included in
> > > the
> > > main release, let me know and I'll see how I can merge it...
> > sure ... bring it on :) the youtube one as well
> >
> > cheers
> > tobi
> >
> > > Feedback welcome,
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Adrian
> > >
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