On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 13:53 +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Chris Picton wrote: > > > ... the smokeping probes run a command at each interval, whereas I > > would like to send data into smokeping from an external script at each > > interval. > > You can tell the FPing probe to send more than one ping per interval: > > http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/FPing.en.html > > Isn't that what you want? If you try to sidestep Smokeping's control > of the probes you'll run into all kinds of issues, for example setting > up the RRD files to contain the right data.
I was hoping to get results which were indicative of the entire length of the rrd interval, to avoid missing short periods of network problems. I could set the number of fping attemps to be a few less than my rrd step length to try simulate this, but there may be corner cases where the probe takes too long, and thus runs over my interval. What I have done in the meantime is modify fping slightly to respond to a SIGUSR1. On receipt of this, it prints out current stats. I will try make a smokeping probe to use this, and will see how it fares. Chris _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
