I've been using smokeping for a while and it's great for monitoring
latency/packetloss around a large network. Recently I was asked to monitor a
bunch of hosts with two different sizes of packet. I couldn't find a neat
way of doing this with the current smokeping configuration scheme. I
eventually copied FPing.pm to FPing2.pm and wrote a config like this.
*** Probes ***
+ FPing
binary = /sbin/fping
packetsize = 50
+ FPing2
binary = /sbin/fping
packetsize = 1480
But I didn't feel good about copying perl modules around to do it. I was
hoping I could have written something like
*** Probes ***
+ SmallPing
module = FPing
binary = /sbin/fping
packetsize = 50
+ LargePing
module = FPing
binary = /sbin/fping
packetsize = 1480
In other words, make the probe name (SmallPing) independent of the module
that supplies the functionality (FPing.pm).
Would this be a sensible modification to make for the smokeping
distribution? It seems to be a simple enough change to the code.
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