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SmokePing - Monitors and graphs network latency

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.

Obtaining

Web page	http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/
Source tarball	http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/pub/smokeping-1.25.tar.gz
Source information	http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/pub/?M=D/

Version 1.25 (stable) released on 2004-01-04

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User guide included and available in HTML format from http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/docs/index.en.html

Support contacts

Help List

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Project contacts

Maintainers	Tobias Oetiker <[email protected]>
Developers	Tobias Oetiker <[email protected]>
Contributors	Niko Tyni <[email protected]> Simon Leinen <[email protected]> David Schweikert <[email protected]> Jack Cummings <[email protected]>

Related information

Interfaces	daemon, web
Source languages	Perl
Use requirements	rrdtool, SpeedyCGI
Related programs	MRTG

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <[email protected]> on 2002-09-09
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <[email protected]>

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