[smokeping-users] TCPPing - glob -- how to fix this?

[Christian Vo]

Hi all

just to add ,  if I run smokeping --debug-daemon,  the graph
generates....wth...

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:50 AM Christian Vo <christian.vo at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi Igor,
>
> thanks for the tip -->  I re-installed tcptraceroute and now
> 1) from smokeping --debug , I can see proper data collected and smokeping
> seems to graph the value as expected (good)
> 2) however, when I run smokeping as a daemon,  it doesn't seem to graph
> (bad)
>
> the newer tcptraceroute was installed into /usr/local/bin,  and I tried
> sym-link to /usr/sbin/tcptraceroute
> tcpping is still there as /usr/sbin/tcpping
>
> I'm not sure it's a tcpping issue at this point, but I checked  the
> imagecache and datadir , perfmissions seem to be ok.
> as a test (new target anyhow) I deleted the rrd and imagecache folder for
> this target, but new graph still doesn't show anything.
> I can see timestamp update on the rrd file but nothing gets generated in
> the graph.
>
> any ideas?  it could be something really simple that I missed, but I'm
> drawing blanks =(
>
> Christian
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 12:08 PM Маценко Игорь <Aikanaro at live.ru> wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> It has something to do with the tcptraceroute package, I had the same
>> issue. I remember what I did was re-installed tcptraceroute package and it
>> worked.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Igor
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Christian Vo <christian.vo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Igor,
>>
>> Both tcptraceroute and tcpping are in the same folder. I notice issue
>> seems to be related to the script being called with -c option? If I run
>> the command manually with this flag, it doesnt return the values.. not sure
>> where I'd fix this, anyone?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 8:53 PM Маценко Игорь <aikanaro at live.ru wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Christian,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I had similar issue, make sure you have installed packed called
>>> tcptraceroute/traceroute(that’s solved my issue) on the box that you are
>>> running smokeping instance from. I am 100% sure that’s the issue.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install tcptraceroute
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, have you tried running smokeping in debug mode? It could shed some
>>> light.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Igor
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* smokeping-users <smokeping-users-bounces+aikanaro=
>>> live.ru at lists.oetiker.ch> on behalf of Christian Vo <
>>> christian.vo at gmail.com>
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2018 10:23:48 PM
>>> *To:* smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
>>> *Subject:* [smokeping-users] TCPPing - glob -- how to fix this?
>>>
>>> (Sorry if it's been asked, but google search didn't clearly explain how
>>> to resolve this =()
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to implement a probe using TCPPing
>>> I have the script working along with tcptraceroute (i.e. works via CLI
>>> fine)
>>>
>>> however, smokeping isn't generating any data against the target host,
>>> and from debug allI see is the following:
>>>
>>> TCPPing: forks 5, timeout for each target 301
>>> TCPPing: Executing /usr/sbin/tcpping -C -x 20 host.somewhere.com 443
>>> TCPPing: Received: GLOB(0x2e388e8)
>>> TCPPing:  host.somewhere.com: got
>>> (Nothing else afterwards related to TCPPing, just FPING targets and
>>> related results)
>>>
>>> I tried to search on " TCPPing: Received: GLOB(0x2e388e8)"
>>> which got me this: https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/issues/60
>>> but I'm not sure if I'm missing something...
>>>
>>> my Probe definition:
>>>
>>> + TCPPing
>>>
>>> binary = /usr/sbin/tcpping
>>> forks = 5
>>> step = 300
>>> offset = 50%
>>> timeout = 15
>>>
>>> my Target definition:
>>>
>>> probe = TCPPing
>>> menu = zoom
>>> title =  host.somewhere.com
>>> host =  host.somewhere.com
>>> port = 443
>>>
>>> Pls help,
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
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