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Monitoring Network Latency With Smokeping (Ubuntu 9.04) This guide shows how to install and configure Smokeping on Ubuntu 9.04 to monitor network latency. From the Smokeping web site: "SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network connection."

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By: VJ

Thank you for the informative Smokeping setup guide.

I followed these steps on an Ubuntu machine, and when I apply "/etc/init.d/smokeping restart", get the following error message:

 * Shutting down latency logger daemon smokeping                         [ OK ]  * Starting latency logger daemon smokeping                          

ERROR: /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets, line 3: unknown variable 'menu'

My Targets file is simple as follows:

+ Internationalmenu = International serverstitle = International servers++ Yahoomenu = Yahootitle = Yahoohost = www.yahoo.com

Any tips to overcome the error message?

 

By: Lars

Thx for the informative post.

 

If u get and sendmail does not exist error, try installing sendmail.

apt-get install sendmail

By: Sebastian Quintero

Excellent tutorial but I have a problem.

 

When you open the page www.example.com/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi SmokePing the web interface does not appear.

 

What should I do ?

 

Thank you.

By: Lii

Thank you for the informative smokeping setup guide. I would to ask you, how to read smokeping graph to get a latency and packet loss? and how to measure it?I've smokeping in my office but i couldn't representation this information to my report cz i couldnt read information in smokeping.

By: Dax Mickelson

 I encountered a similar issue.  My webserver cannot find the CGI script.

<snip>

The requested URL /cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi was not found on this server.

</snip>

 

The Apache access.log shows a 404 509 reason and there is no entry in the error.log.

 

BTW, without your tutorial I'd NEVER had gotten this far.  The source documentation is attrocious!

By: Dax Mickelson

I solved my issue.  I needed to run the command "sudo a2enmod cgi". 

By: Dax Mickelson

I've encountered a new issue.  The images in the smokeping webpage don't render.  I've checked the cgiurl, pathnames, and other variables and they all appear to be pointing to the correct spot (/var/cache/smokeping/images).  I even see PNG files in that location!  But apache gives a 404 error.  Thoughts?

By: Dax Mickelson

Found the solution.  Sorry to spam your comments but I'm learning how to fix this as I go along.  From http://blog.dical.org/2015/06/step-by-step-guide-to-installing-smokeping-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts/ I learned that I needed to also modify the /etc/apache2/conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf file and add a new section.  (See step 5 in the URL I have listed here for details.)