You configure your monitored hosts in the Targets file. In my install
that is here :
sudo vi /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets
You can find the Targets file by using the find command or by installing
the locate utility - I like locate.
sudo apt install locate
and then running
sudo updatedb
sudo locate Targets
(if you don't 'sudo locate' you will not see some directories because of
permissions)
and you can view the plotted data in at this url assuming you don't
change the cgi path in the 'General' file:
(yourwebserverip)/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=(your system config name)
You can change the url path in /etc/smokeping/config.d/General
You need to make sure that appropriate permissions are set for the paths
that are specified in /etc/smokeping/config.d/pathnames
You might also need to fiddle with your webserver's config file to
ensure it can execute the scripts.
And keep plugging away at it...... I found Smokeping challenging to
configure when I first installed it and I am a Linux guy..... that was
10 or 12 years ago I think, but it is a /very /handy tool once you get
to understand how it works and what it can do. It now monitors a
half-dozen services on 200+ targets for us.
Regards,
Ian
On 09/04/2018 2:29 PM, Henrik Rosenø wrote:
OK. Thank you!
I discovered that Ctrl-C gets me back to the prompt.
And "ps -ef | grep -c smokeping" gives output "2" just like in your case.
But how can I see or access the results of the monitoring?
Best regards,
Henrik R.
On 04/09/2018 04:02 PM, goZoom SysAdmin wrote:
You probably have multiple copies of smokeping running.
Count the instances
ian@draco:~$ ps -ef | grep -c smokeping
2
2 is normal as shown below
ian@draco:~$ ps -ef | grep smokeping
smokepi+ 17602 1 0 Apr05 ? 00:01:06 /usr/sbin/smokeping
[FPing]
ian 29551 29487 0 09:57 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto
smokeping
ian@draco:~$
if you have multiple instances it's probably easiest just to reboot
ian@draco:~$ sudo reboot now
And You probably need to find a beginners guide to Linux.
Ian
On 09/04/2018 8:43 AM, Henrik Rosenø wrote:
Hi goZoom
Thank you for your very fast answer.
So far so good. Now my problem is getting 20 copies of a status
message. Below I have inserted the first and the last copy.
The cursor is blinking next to "lines 1-18/18 (END)".
What do I do now?
henrik@Henrik-L570:~/smokeping-2.7.1$ sudo service smokeping start
[sudo] password for henrik:
henrik@Henrik-L570:~/smokeping-2.7.1$ sudo service smokeping status
● smokeping.service - LSB: Start or stop the smokeping latency
logging system daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/smokeping; generated; vendor preset:
enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-04-09 11:32:08 CEST; 3h
0min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/smokeping.service
└─9923 /usr/sbin/smokeping [FPing]
Apr 09 11:32:07 Henrik-L570 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start or stop
the smokeping latency logging syste
Apr 09 11:32:07 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9911]: * Starting latency
logger daemon smokeping
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9918]: Starting syslog logging
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9919]: Note: logging to
syslog as local0/info.
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9919]: Daemonizing
/usr/sbin/smokeping ...
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: Smokeping version
2.006011 successfully launched.
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: Not entering
multiprocess mode for just a single probe.
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: FPing: probing 1
targets with step 300 s and offset 27 s.
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9911]: ...done.
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop
the smokeping latency logging system
lines 1-18/18 (END)
● smokeping.service - LSB: Start or stop the smokeping latency
logging system daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/smokeping; generated; vendor preset:
enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-04-09 11:32:08 CEST; 3h
0min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/smokeping.service
└─9923 /usr/sbin/smokeping [FPing]
Apr 09 11:32:07 Henrik-L570 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start or stop
the smokeping latency logging system daemon...
Apr 09 11:32:07 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9911]: * Starting latency
logger daemon smokeping
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9918]: Starting syslog logging
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9919]: Note: logging to
syslog as local0/info.
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9919]: Daemonizing
/usr/sbin/smokeping ...
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: Smokeping version
2.006011 successfully launched.
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: Not entering
multiprocess mode for just a single probe.
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9923]: FPing: probing 1
targets with step 300 s and offset 27 s.
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 smokeping[9911]: ...done.
Apr 09 11:32:08 Henrik-L570 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop
the smokeping latency logging system daemon.
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lines 1-18/18 (END)
Henrik
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On 04/09/2018 02:20 PM, goZoom SysAdmin wrote:
This is not a smokeping problem. You are trying to run smokeping
as Your user on Linux and You do not have write access to the
directory. Run smokeping as a service, not as a standalone program.
sudo service smokeping start
sudo service smokeping status
Ian
On 09/04/2018 8:13 AM, Henrik Rosenø wrote:
creating /var/run/smokeping/smokeping.pid: Permission denied
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