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|Short description=A network latency monitor similar to MRTG.
|Full description=SmokePing measures network latency to a configurable set of destinations on the network, and displays its findings in Web pages. It consists of a daemon process responsible for data collection and a CGI script presenting the data on the web. SmokePing can also watch out loss/latency patterns and send out alerts when it finds a match. This allows for sophisticated monitoring applications. It deals with machines who frequently change their IP address by allowing the remote host to call SmokePing's attention to its new IP address. SmokePing also monitors how long the remote system could keep its IP address, and tries to fingerprint each Dynamic IP targets via SNMP too ensure that it is not suddenly monitoring the wrong host. SmokePing uses RRDtool as its logging and graphing back-end the system very efficient. Data is presented on the Web through a CGI which creates graphs on demand. The CGI script uses SpeedyCGI to achieve mod_perl like performance without needing to put mod_perl on your server. SmokePing also has a plug-in architecture so you can easily add new latency measurement capabilities to the package.
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|Full description=SmokePing is a network latency monitor which works in a way that is similar to MRTG. It measures network latency to a configurable set of destinations on the network, and displays its findings in easy-to-read Web pages. SmokePing has special support for monitoring hosts with dynamic IP addresses. SmokePing uses RRDtool as its logging and graphing back-end, making the system very efficient. The presentation of the data on the Web is done through a CGI which creates graphs on demand.
 
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|Computer languages=Perl
 
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|Documentation note=User guide included and available in HTML format from http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/docs/
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|Keywords=system administration,monitoring,IP address,dynamic,rrdtool,latency,SmokePing
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|Keywords=testing,system
 
|Is GNU=n
 
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|Last review by=Janet Casey
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|Last review by=Ted Teah
|Last review date=2005-01-31
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|Submitted by=Database conversion
 
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|Version date=2005-01-30
 
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|Version status=stable
 
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|Version download=http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/pub/smokeping-1.38.tar.gz
|License verified date=2002-09-09
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|License verified date=2006-02-13
|Version comment=1.38 stable released 2005-01-30
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Revision as of 10:17, 12 April 2011


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SmokePing

http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
A network latency monitor similar to MRTG.

SmokePing is a network latency monitor which works in a way that is similar to MRTG. It measures network latency to a configurable set of destinations on the network, and displays its findings in easy-to-read Web pages. SmokePing has special support for monitoring hosts with dynamic IP addresses. SmokePing uses RRDtool as its logging and graphing back-end, making the system very efficient. The presentation of the data on the Web is done through a CGI which creates graphs on demand.





Licensing

License

Verified by

Verified on

Notes

Verified by

Ted Teah

Verified on

13 February 2006




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
Tobias Oetiker Maintainer


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
Developer,Help,SupportMailing List Info/Archivehttp://lists.ee.ethz.ch/smokeping-users/
Bug TrackingE-mailmailto:oetiker@ee.ethz.ch


Software prerequisites




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