[smokeping-users] [BULK] Re: New probe speedtest

[Erik Taraldsen]

Thanks Adrian

I'll experiment with this as work slows down for the summer.

-Erik

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Adrian Popa <adrian_gh.popa at telekom.ro> wrote:
> Hello Erik,
>
> I looked through Smokeping.pm hoping to find it hardcoded, and I found a
> call to a function called ProbeUnit(). So, I added such a function in my
> probe that returns the value to be displayed (it's called automatically):
>
> sub ProbeUnit($){
>     my $self = shift;
>     #TODO: We need to know if we are measuring bps or seconds - depending on
> measurement (or maybe on probe name).
>     return "bps";
> }
>
> By the way, this remains a TODO with my speedtest probe - if you measure
> ping time you'll get bps as your axis :(. Suggestions welcome.
>
>
>
> On 06/12/15 09:24, Erik Taraldsen wrote:
>>
>> Adrian: How did you get the Y-axis to be bits pr second?  I'm doing a
>> probe for nuttcp, but I only can get it to display as "seconds".
>> Allways confusing my co-workers.
>>
>> -Erik
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> 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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