Cheshire Cat Computing

Steve,

Once again, great work on a great product.

I looked though some of your forum posts and also some internet posts. I am trying to decide whether it would be better to use smokeping or mrtg-ping-probe to display ping response times in routers2.cgi. Is there another program that would be better suited? What is the group's preference and what works best with routers2.cgi?

I am only interested in graphing the response times of the router WAN links off in a hub and spoke type network. I do not want to have any remote probes in the remote routers.

cheers,
Warner

SmokePing is stand-alone I believe. So as far as working with Routers2, you'd have to use mrtg-ping-probe.

Smokeping is super snazzy but it is its own beast.

Smokeping (a very good package) is standalone. If you want to see the graphs through the routers2 interface, you'll need to use mrtg-ping-probe. At least this way you can get the floating-bar max/min graphs like in the web site examples.

An MRTG-generated ping times graph will not be as fully-featured as smokeping (since otherwise, why would Tobi have written smokeping?) but if your requirements are like ours, then it will fulfill your needs.

Steve

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
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