Hi Ged, > > However, short of painstakingly examining the high-resolution graphs > minute-by-minute I do not see how Smokeping will alert me to transient > short duration events. These may be symptoms of some unknown problem > which appeared while I was away on holiday: It's 8am on Monday morning > and there's a great big heap of paper in my 'IN' tray. An ugly crowd > of disgruntled computer users is gathering at the door to the IT dep't > offices, and I'd like to take a quick look at what's been going on in > the LAN for the past month before I unlock it - so that I don't appear > to be quite so clueless as is in fact the case.
> > Networks can be a bit like combat - long periods of nothing happening > punctuated by moments of sheer terror. The 'nothing happening' bits > establish reference points but little else, and can be characterized > with little storage (or screen) capacity. The punctuations are more > interesting, and will require more resources. At the moment these > punctuations tend to be masked. In your words: for this I setup the smokeping alarm facility so that it sends me mail when it drops packets, sees a sharp rise in rtt or some such .. a second bit you can do, is add a MAX rra, this will preserve any spike ... cheers tobi > > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:49:38 +0200 (CEST) > > From: Tobias Oetiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: G.W. Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Graph scale problem > > > > [snip] the net result is, that the spike becomes lower as it gets > > distributed across time [snip] > > That's the bit that bothers me. > > I think I've banged on this drum enough now. :) > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
