Re: [smokeping-users] A beginner's problems - I can't run smokeping
Hi again! For reference hosts, you can use this (the first line gives you a separate section for the refs): + References ++ Ref_1_1_1_1 menu = 1.1.1.1 title = 1.1.1.1 host = 1.1.1.1 ++ Ref_8_8_8_8 menu = 8.8.8.8 title = 8.8.8.8 host = 8.8.8.8 ++ Ref_8_8_4_4 menu = 8.8.4.4 title = 8.8.4.4 host = 8.8.4.4 /Fredrik ___ smokeping-users mailing list smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
Re: [smokeping-users] A beginner's problems - I can't run smokeping
Hi! For starters, welcome to the wonderful world of Linux and Smokeping! Lesson 1: You normally don't start services with a command line command like that. In Debian/Ubuntu (siblings in terms of Linux distributions), you normally start a service with i.e. /etc/init.d/smokeping start. You can check a service with i.e. /etc/init.d/smokeping status to see if it's running or not. There are otherw ways of doing this (part of the buty with Linux), but this is the basic and most universal way and the one I use. Others may pitch in with their favourite method ;) Another handy command is "ps ax | grep smokeping". This will show you any processes that are named smokeping (in this case). Since you installed Smokeping, it shoud start with the system, so try a reboot if it isn't already started. It should start as a part of the installation. Checking your ISP is the next task. Edit /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets and add the hosts you want to check. I usually take a traceroute to the ISP's own web site and monitor all (or the first) in the traceroute list. This way you can see if the ISP has a routing issue inside their network (at least in some cases), and not only if your access is dropped. Some examples: ++ PingBahnhofSe menu = ping.bahnhof.se title = ping.bahnhof.se host = ping.bahnhof.se ++ PingLuSe menu = ping.lu.se title = ping.lu.se host = ping.lu.se ++ PingSunetSe menu = ping.sunet.se title = ping.sunet.se host = ping.sunet.se If your traceroute looks like this: ~$ traceroute www.eniig.dk traceroute to www.eniig.dk (92.246.13.174), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 10.67.11.1 (10.67.11.1) 0.380 ms 0.352 ms 0.338 ms 2 213.80.87.72 (213.80.87.72) 3.670 ms 3.665 ms 3.654 ms 3 213.80.86.253 (213.80.86.253) 3.900 ms 4.389 ms 4.365 ms 4 dix.ip.nianet.net (192.38.7.58) 7.940 ms 5.856 ms 5.838 ms 5 93.176.93.9 (93.176.93.9) 8.282 ms 8.241 ms 8.230 ms 6 87.116.38.122 (87.116.38.122) 8.190 ms 8.152 ms 8.159 ms ... you might want to include hops 1-4 or so to the list of targets. Also include my examples or other known targets on the Internet for reference (1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare DNS), 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 (Google DNS) might be good ones). Oh, by the way, Emacs is a far more superior editor than Vi, just in case no one told you this yet. For beginners, pico or nano are good, and even mcedit, included in the mc package, is a good option with less functions than Emacs of course. mc is short for Midnight Commander, a clone of Norton Commander if you're old enough to have run NC in DOS ;) /Fredrik ___ smokeping-users mailing list smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
Re: [smokeping-users] A beginner's problems - I can't run smokeping
You configure your monitored hosts in the Targets file. In my install that is here : sudo vi /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets You can find the Targets file by using the find command or by installing the locate utility - I like locate. sudo apt install locate and then running sudo updatedb sudo locate Targets (if you don't 'sudo locate' you will not see some directories because of permissions) and you can view the plotted data in at this url assuming you don't change the cgi path in the 'General' file: (yourwebserverip)/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=(your system config name) You can change the url path in /etc/smokeping/config.d/General You need to make sure that appropriate permissions are set for the paths that are specified in /etc/smokeping/config.d/pathnames You might also need to fiddle with your webserver's config file to ensure it can execute the scripts. And keep plugging away at it.. I found Smokeping challenging to configure when I first installed it and I am a Linux guy. that was 10 or 12 years ago I think, but it is a /very /handy tool once you get to understand how it works and what it can do. It now monitors a half-dozen services on 200+ targets for us. Regards, Ian On 09/04/2018 2:29 PM, Henrik Rosenø wrote: OK. Thank you! I discovered that Ctrl-C gets me back to the prompt. And "ps -ef | grep -c smokeping" gives output "2" just like in your case. But how can I see or access the results of the monitoring? Best regards, Henrik R. On 04/09/2018 04:02 PM, goZoom SysAdmin wrote: You probably have multiple copies of smokeping running. Count the instances ian@draco:~$ ps -ef | grep -c smokeping 2 2 is normal as shown below ian@draco:~$ ps -ef | grep smokeping smokepi+ 17602 1 0 Apr05 ? 00:01:06 /usr/sbin/smokeping [FPing] ian 29551 29487 0 09:57 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto smokeping ian@draco:~$ if you have multiple instances it's probably easiest just to reboot ian@draco:~$ sudo reboot now And You probably need to find a beginners guide to Linux. Ian On 09/04/2018 8:43 AM, Henrik Rosenø wrote: Hi goZoom Thank you for your very fast answer. So far so good. Now my problem is getting 20 copies of a status message. Below I have inserted the first and the last copy. The cursor is blinking next to "lines 1-18/18 (END)". What do I do now? henrik@Henrik-L570:~/smokeping-2.7.1$ sudo service smokeping start [sudo] password for henrik: henrik@Henrik-L570:~/smokeping-2.7.1$ sudo service smokeping status ● smokeping.service - LSB: Start or stop the smokeping latency logging system daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/smokeping; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-04-09 11:32:08 CEST; 3h 0min ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915) CGroup: /system.slice/smokeping.service └─9923 /usr/sbin/smokeping [FPing] Apr 09 11:32:07 Henrik-L570 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start or stop the smokeping latency logging syste Apr 09 11:32:07 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9911]: * Starting latency logger daemon smokeping Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9918]: Starting syslog logging Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9919]: Note: logging to syslog as local0/info. Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9919]: Daemonizing /usr/sbin/smokeping ... Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: Smokeping version 2.006011 successfully launched. Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: Not entering multiprocess mode for just a single probe. Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: FPing: probing 1 targets with step 300 s and offset 27 s. Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9911]: ...done. Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop the smokeping latency logging system lines 1-18/18 (END) ● smokeping.service - LSB: Start or stop the smokeping latency logging system daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/smokeping; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-04-09 11:32:08 CEST; 3h 0min ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915) CGroup: /system.slice/smokeping.service └─9923 /usr/sbin/smokeping [FPing] Apr 09 11:32:07 Henrik-L570 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start or stop the smokeping latency logging system daemon... Apr 09 11:32:07 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9911]: * Starting latency logger daemon smokeping Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9918]: Starting syslog logging Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9919]: Note: logging to syslog as local0/info. Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9919]: Daemonizing /usr/sbin/smokeping ... Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: Smokeping version 2.006011 successfully launched. Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: Not entering multiprocess mode for just a single probe. Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: FPing: probing 1 targets with step
Re: [smokeping-users] A beginner's problems - I can't run smokeping
This is not a smokeping problem. You are trying to run smokeping as Your user on Linux and You do not have write access to the directory. Run smokeping as a service, not as a standalone program. sudo service smokeping start sudo service smokeping status Ian On 09/04/2018 8:13 AM, Henrik Rosenø wrote: creating /var/run/smokeping/smokeping.pid: Permission denied ___ smokeping-users mailing list smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
[smokeping-users] A beginner's problems - I can't run smokeping
Hi Smokeping-users I am new to Linux. I use Ubuntu 17.10. First I downloaded and extracted the smokeping-2.7.1.tar.gz archive and extracted it and tried to find something to run directly without luck. Then I opened Terminal and, in short, I did this: > henrik@Henrik-L570:~/smokeping-2.7.1$ sudo apt install smokeping > henrik@Henrik-L570:~/smokeping-2.7.1$ smokeping > Note: logging to syslog as local0/info. > Daemonizing /usr/sbin/smokeping ... > creating /var/run/smokeping/smokeping.pid: Permission denied > henrik@Henrik-L570:~/smokeping-2.7.1$ smokeping --check > Configuration file '/etc/smokeping/config' syntax OK. > henrik@Henrik-L570:~/smokeping-2.7.1$ smokeping > Note: logging to syslog as local0/info. > Daemonizing /usr/sbin/smokeping ... > creating /var/run/smokeping/smokeping.pid: Permission denied As you can see I got a "Permission denied". I want to monitor my ISP because at arbitrary times both Ubuntu and Windows can't seem to connect to the Internet. So what do I do now? Here is a full copy of the Terminal session: > henrik@Henrik-L570:~$ ls > Desktopexamples.desktop Pictures snap > Documents Exodus-linux-x64 Public Templates > Downloads Music smokeping-2.7.1 Videos > henrik@Henrik-L570:~$ cd smokping-2.7.1 > bash: cd: smokping-2.7.1: No such file or directory > henrik@Henrik-L570:~$ cd smokeping-2.7.1 > henrik@Henrik-L570:~/smokeping-2.7.1$ smokeping > The program 'smokeping' is currently not installed. You can install it by > typing: > sudo apt install smokeping > henrik@Henrik-L570:~/smokeping-2.7.1$ sudo apt install smokeping > [sudo] password for henrik: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following additional packages will be installed: > apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils echoping fping libapr1 > libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libconfig-grammar-perl > libdbi1 libjs-cropper libjs-prototype libjs-scriptaculous librrd8 > librrds-perl libsnmp-session-perl postfix > Suggested packages: > apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom procmail > postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre postfix-lmdb > postfix-sqlite sasl2-bin dovecot-common resolvconf postfix-cdb postfix-doc > curl libauthen-radius-perl libnet-ldap-perl libnet-telnet-perl > The following NEW packages will be installed: > apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils echoping fping libapr1 > libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libconfig-grammar-perl > libdbi1 libjs-cropper libjs-prototype libjs-scriptaculous librrd8 > librrds-perl libsnmp-session-perl postfix smokeping > 0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 3,720 kB of archives. > After this operation, 13.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > Get:1 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 libapr1 amd64 > 1.6.2-1 [90.9 kB] > Get:2 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 libaprutil1 amd64 > 1.6.0-2 [84.2 kB] > Get:3 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 > libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 amd64 1.6.0-2 [10.5 kB] > Get:4 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 libaprutil1-ldap > amd64 1.6.0-2 [8,660 B] > Get:5 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 apache2-bin amd64 > 2.4.27-2ubuntu3 [968 kB] > Get:6 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 apache2-utils > amd64 2.4.27-2ubuntu3 [82.5 kB] > Get:7 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 apache2-data all > 2.4.27-2ubuntu3 [161 kB] > Get:8 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 apache2 amd64 > 2.4.27-2ubuntu3 [95.8 kB] > Get:9 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 echoping > amd64 6.0.2-10 [63.1 kB] > Get:10 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 fping amd64 > 4.0-2 [29.1 kB] > Get:11 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 > libconfig-grammar-perl all 1.12-1 [21.6 kB] > Get:12 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 libdbi1 amd64 > 0.9.0-4 [27.8 kB] > Get:13 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 > libjs-prototype all 1.7.1-3 [44.2 kB] > Get:14 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 > libjs-scriptaculous all 1.9.0-2 [107 kB] > Get:15 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 > libjs-cropper all 1.2.2-1 [139 kB] > Get:16 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 librrd8 amd64 > 1.6.0-1ubuntu2 [153 kB] > Get:17 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 postfix amd64 > 3.2.3-1 [1,159 kB] > Get:18 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 librrds-perl > amd64 1.6.0-1ubuntu2 [22.9 kB] > Get:19 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 > libsnmp-session-perl all 1.13-2 [64.7 kB] > Get:20 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64
