Today Jenny Lee wrote: > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > > > http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=Customers.OP.johan > > > > > > If you look at this graph, there is package loss about once a day > > > (blue lines). That is 1-5% out of the 144 runs a day. > > > > > > However, as you go down on the page... at 400 days at the bottom, > > > whole graph is BLUE! > > > > > > Averages are corret, but they are not being graphed properly. > > > > > > I have just started with SmokePing (which is a PITA to install on > > > a RedHat). Is it so hard to roll an rpm? > > > > > > Is there also any templates for it? Included ones are... well, > > > just not for our times. > > > > If I remember corectly, the loss consolidation function is using > > MAX somewhere along the line, so even little losses will stick > > around through consolidation ... > > > > cheers > > tobi > > > Hello Tobi, > > Never mind my criticism, thank you for a great tool. I set it up, put in 3 > slaves. All monitoring good so far. > > Now the problems: > > a. What is the fix for this issue? I don't believe everyone is > using it like that. The purpose of graphing... is so that we do > not need to read the fine print. When I looked at that graph, I > was to have a heart attack. How can I show something like this to > my boss? I use cacti as well and I don't have this problem. > Nothing is clear from these graphs beyond a day.
you should, because loss is BAD, it should not happen, hence the choice of consolidation function ... > b. The UI needs serious improvements. 70% of my screen is empty. > Why not to plug in 4 graphs there? I am planning on moving smokeping to extopus, see www.extopus.org if you are in a position to provide resources for this project, let me know ... > c. What is Speedy CGI? I had hard time trying to find it let > alone being able to install it? smokeping 2.6.x does not need speedycgi anymore ... it uses fastcgi ... where did you see the speedycgi requirement ? > d. Do the slaves need all these dependencies? Can't you make a > stripped down version? Since they don't need any cgi, graphing, > etc. graphing is part of rrdtool, so it does not realy appy > > e. I had to install 42 rpms to get this working! I had to take 3 > srpms from Fedora and recompile them on Redhat 6. Take Fedora > SmokePing RPM, recompile on Redhat. Yet, I still have version > 2.4.2. I spent 2 days. This doesn't have to be so painful! you should not be using an old version ... bad for the karma ... 2.6.x has autoconf support ... > Thanks again for all your work (smokeping, mrtg, rrdtool, and all). cheers tobi > > Jenny > > > > > > -- 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
