Greg, How many alerts are firing when your box starts to bog? I have been running my fork of the mtr script for several months now with no issues. Matter of fact, I am now working on an expanded version that will dump the mtr's into mysql for easy access for our NOC. Currently, I just have the script appending a file in /var/log with each mtr.
Could you be pushing the box you are running from too hard? On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Gregory Sloop <gr...@sloop.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *FP> On 21.02.2014 06 <21.02.2014%2006>:42, Philip Wehunt wrote: >> I > could hackishly work around this in my python but I wanted to >> identify > if I am doing something wrong on the SP side or if it is a >> bug. Mainly > in the spirit of KISS. I don't like to let hackish >> scripts linger. FP> > You probably found the same script on gist, but here's my version[1] FP> > which doesn't fail when the 6th arg is missing. It will not add " FP> > cleared" to the subject without the arg, but it will send you the report. > FP> [1]: *https://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/bin/tree/smokemtr.py > > > > > *FP> From the documentation in smokeping_config I'd say this is a bug, but > FP> given I get my mails I didn't bother fixing it yet. *Florian et.al. > > First, thanks for the script. I've had to mod it a bit - my MTR isn't > quite the same as yours and I want to use a non-local SMTP server and port > - but those were easy mods. [MTR is in a different spot too, again easy > mod.] > > So, I'm very excited about the prospects of automated mtr stats when a > smokeping alert gets triggered - however I run into a substantial snag. > > I use a 60s poll in smokeping, and if I get a bunch of [smokeping] alerts > that kick off, then, when each MTR takes a while to run, it stalls > smokeping. > > This causes a ripple-effect, and a raft of nagios alerts...since I use a > smokeping nagios plug-in. When SP stalls [running the mtr's] the RRD's go > dry, and then nagios starts alerting on an "unknown" target state. ["This > RRD hasn't been written to in 180s" etc.] > > So, is there some way I can fork off the mtr script, and allow smokeping > to continue while the mtr stats are gathered and a report sent? > > [This is something I'm woefully un-knowledgeable about...] > > TIA > -Greg > > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users > >
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