You can use Xymon to get a ping email alert. At this time it's simply up or down. Future plans are for so much loss or high values. No function for traceroutes that I am aware.
On 3/30/10, Russell Dwarshuis <[email protected]> wrote: > And of course smokeping can be configured to run a script when a loss > trigger is tripped. For awhile I had a little script run traceroute > and email the results to me when loss was seen on a particular host. > > It's not exactly what Joshua was looking for but it's another > less-resource intensive possibility. > > > -Russell Dwarshuis > > On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > >> Hi Joshua, >> >> curently smokeping has no functionality for running background >> traceroutes and recording of that information ... >> >> but if you have a budget, I'll be glad to make you an offer for >> developing such a feature. >> >> If you program yourself I'll be glad todo some chaperoning ... >> >> cheers >> tobi >> >> >> >> Today Joshua Smith wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, i recently stumbled upon smokeping looking for an >>> alternative to pingplotter pro which i currently use. I purchased >>> pingplotter so i would be able to keep detailed logs of mtr-like >>> traceroutes >>> to and from all of my remote servers to help identify any network issues >>> and >>> so that i have some ammunition when dealing with the colo's about >>> possible >>> problems. While pingplotter accomplishes this, it is extremely resource >>> hungry both on the host machine (windows only, that alone is huge >>> drawback) >>> and on any remote linux machine as it relies on a perl script to call >>> traceroute, which somehow uses an incredible amount of resources when >>> querying many hosts at once. Long story short after configuring smokeping >>> and digging everywhere i'm unable to tell if smokeping offers this same >>> functionality? An help would be greatly appreciated and i apologise for >>> the >>> back story. >>> >> >> -- >> Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland >> http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> smokeping-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users > -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
