Alert based on ping response time
list Ryan Novosielski
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I see this question has been asked on the list a few times, but I haven't quite gotten the complete answers from any of the old threads... so here goes: I see that I get ping response time with my current setup. I appear to be using fping already, so that recommendation is covered. The trouble is, the data appears to be captured as a graph is being assembled using it. Is there really no way to use this data for alerting as it stands now? It appears as if more than 10ms in my environment represents a problem and that setting it at 10 would probably yield no false alarms, but I can see no way to turn red for any value other than a failed ping/dropped packets. Thanks for any info you can pass along. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk56VNEACgkQmb+gadEcsb7roACff5HzoFnfjHYsyLLf6mc23RbI s30AnA1vn+duYt2S/J9DHIjunS3eFdqq =mssT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
list Ryan Novosielski
Anyone have any experience with this at all?
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On 09/21/11, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid> wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I see this question has been asked on the list a few times, but I haven't quite gotten the complete answers from any of the old threads... so here goes: I see that I get ping response time with my current setup. I appear to be using fping already, so that recommendation is covered. The trouble is, the data appears to be captured as a graph is being assembled using it. Is there really no way to use this data for alerting as it stands now? It appears as if more than 10ms in my environment represents a problem and that setting it at 10 would probably yield no false alarms, but I can see no way to turn red for any value other than a failed ping/dropped packets. Thanks for any info you can pass along. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk56VNEACgkQmb+gadEcsb7roACff5HzoFnfjHYsyLLf6mc23RbI s30AnA1vn+duYt2S/J9DHIjunS3eFdqq =mssT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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list Vernon Everett
This is relatively easy to do in a script, but you would end up with a new
test.
Incorportating the time into the existing conn test is probably a task for
the likes of Henrik et al.
Regards
Vernon
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On 23 September 2011 22:59, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Anyone have any experience with this at all? On 09/21/11, *Ryan Novosielski * <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I see this question has been asked on the list a few times, but I haven't quite gotten the complete answers from any of the old threads... so here goes: I see that I get ping response time with my current setup. I appear to be using fping already, so that recommendation is covered. The trouble is, the data appears to be captured as a graph is being assembled using it. Is there really no way to use this data for alerting as it stands now? It appears as if more than 10ms in my environment represents a problem and that setting it at 10 would probably yield no false alarms, but I can see no way to turn red for any value other than a failed ping/dropped packets. Thanks for any info you can pass along. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk56VNEACgkQmb+gadEcsb7roACff5HzoFnfjHYsyLLf6mc23RbI s30AnA1vn+duYt2S/J9DHIjunS3eFdqq =mssT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark
list Jeremy Laidman
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid>wrote:
it. Is there really no way to use this data for alerting as it stands now? It appears as if more than 10ms in my environment represents a problem and that setting it at 10 would probably yield no false alarms, but I can see no way to turn red for any value other than a failed ping/dropped packets.
You could redefine FPING in xymonserver.cfg to specify the timeout value like this: FPING="xymonping --timeout NNN" The down-side is that you get no distinction between a slow connection and a broken connection. The man page for analysis.cfg describes an example use of "DS" to override "conn" results based on numeric comparison. Not sure, but this might do what you want. Cheers Jeremy