I am far from an expert and I figured it out. I started from scratch (there are no packages for me).
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Bill Houle <[email protected]> wrote: > SmokePing installation is a bear. But while I completely agree the RPM > approach certainly would have helped my own painful install, I just don't > get the tactic of saying "it was easier to do 2.4.2" and then picking apart > the old code. > > This is an open-source tool for _any_ platform, not just for LSB. The > caretakers probably have enough to do with source, they can't also maintain > installable packages for all platform types. That takes the community. > Barring that, any streamlining from the developer side such as Makemaker, > autoconf, or Configure is much appreciated. > > Reliance on RPM alone has pitfalls. I was surprised to find that the > "current" Apache RPM is by no means current. And this is for a ubiquitous > tool! RPM may be "easy", but its not always the holy grail answer. > > --bill > > > > > On 10/5/2011 3:05 AM, Jenny Lee wrote: > > > > 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 ... > > So there is not a single functional host out of the 30-40 listed on the > demo site? Because all of them are FULL BLUE in 400 days graphs. > > Just because there is 1% loss in 1 out of the 144 probes run does not mean > that entire day should be marked as having packet loss. > > There is some flaw here and those graphs surely would look bad to anyone > who looks at them. But just 400 packets out of the 6 Million or so were > dropped in fact. > > Is there any way I can fix those by taking aggregates or averages or > something else? > > > > > 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 ... > > It has potential. Unfortunately, I am just a worker. > > > > > 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 ? > > SpeedyCGI requirement was still there in 2011 even though last version of > that software was abandoned 9 years ago! It is still coming with the Fedora > SmokePing RPM released in 2011. > > > > > 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 ... > > Tobi, very few people run software with autoconf any more. I did run it. > And it installed about 200 dependencies (thankfully to /opt/smokebin). I > just needed Config::Grammar! > > I had to edit one file. I had to edit another. I had to modify some more. I > had to change permissions... Then I had to write an initscript to start > it... That is why we have RPM to take care of these stuff for us. It quickly > got tiring so I powered off the non-persistent VM and installed 2.4.2 from > Fedora RPMs. > > RPM approach is something that should be considered for widespread > adoptation of sofware. > > Jenny > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing > [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 > >
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