Smokeping in 5min, with Dual Stack on Nginx

All in one Installer

Run it at your own risk …

wget https://blog.stoege.net/scripts/smokeping_debian3.sh
chmod 700 smokeping_debian3.sh
./smokeping_debian3.sh

or Setup by Hand

Install Packages

apt-get install borgbackup curl echoping fcgiwrap fping hping3 htop lynx mlocate mtr nginx rsync smokeping tmate tree tshark unzip vim vnstat wget zip

Configure Nginx

export MYSITENAME="smokeping.planet.world"
wget "https://github.com/vazhnov/smokeping_nginx/raw/master/best.conf"
sed -i -- s/smokeping\.example\.com/${MYSITENAME}/g best.conf
chown root: best.conf
mv best.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/${MYSITENAME}.conf
ln -s "../sites-available/${MYSITENAME}.conf" "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/${MYSITENAME}.conf"
nginx -t && systemctl restart nginx

Some Smokeping Fixes

mkdir -p /var/run/smokeping

Tune General

cat << 'EOF' > /etc/smokeping/config.d/General
*** General ***

owner    = Franz Musterer
contact  = [email protected]
mailhost = smtp-relay-host

# NOTE: do not put the Image Cache below cgi-bin
# since all files under cgi-bin will be executed ... this is not
# good for images.
cgiurl   = http://somekping.planet/smokeping/smokeping.cgi

# specify this to get syslog logging
syslogfacility = local0
# each probe is now run in its own process
# disable this to revert to the old behaviour
# concurrentprobes = no

@include /etc/smokeping/config.d/pathnames
EOF

Tune Databases

cat << 'EOF' > /etc/smokeping/config.d/Database
*** Database ***

step     = 60
pings    = 59
#step     = 300
#pings    = 20

# consfn mrhb steps total

AVERAGE  0.5   1  1008
AVERAGE  0.5  12  4320
    MIN  0.5  12  4320
    MAX  0.5  12  4320
AVERAGE  0.5 144   720
    MAX  0.5 144   720
    MIN  0.5 144   720
EOF

Tune Probes

cat << 'EOF' > /etc/smokeping/config.d/Probes
*** Probes ***

+ FPing

binary = /usr/bin/fping


+ FPing6
binary = /usr/bin/fping
protocol = 6


+ EchoPingHttp

binary = /usr/bin/echoping
forks = 5
offset = 50%
step = 300

# The following variables can be overridden in each target section
accept_redirects = yes
extraopts =
ignore_cache = yes
ipversion = 4
pings = 5
port = 80
priority = 6
revalidate_data = no
timeout = 20
tos = 0xa0
url = /
waittime = 1


+EchoPingHttps

binary = /usr/bin/echoping
forks = 5
offset = 50%
step = 300

# The following variables can be overridden in each target section
accept_redirects = yes
extraopts =
ignore_cache = yes
ipversion = 4
pings = 5
port = 443
priority = 6
prot = 3443
revalidate_data = no
timeout = 20
tos = 0xa0
url = /
waittime = 1


+EchoPingDNS

binary = /usr/bin/echoping
forks = 5
offset = 50%
step = 300

# The following variables can be overridden in each target section
dns_request = google.com
dns_tcp = no
dns_type = A
extraopts =
ipversion = 4
pings = 5
plugin = /usr/lib/echoping/dns.so
pluginargs = -p
priority = 6
timeout = 1
tos = 0xa0
waittime = 1
EOF

Tune Targets

cat << 'EOF' > /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets
*** Targets ***

probe = FPing

menu = Top
title = Network Latency Grapher
remark = Welcome to the SmokePing website of xxx Company.          Here you will learn all about the latency of our network.

+ Local
menu = Local
title = Local Network

++ LocalMachine

menu = Local Machine
title = This host
host = localhost



+ Inet
menu = Internet
title = some Hosts on the Net
probe = FPing

++ google
menu = google
title = google, 8.8.8.8
host = 8.8.8.8

++ switch
host = www.switch.ch

++ uzh
host = www.uzh.ch

++ blick
host = www.blick.ch


+ IPv4
menu = IPv4 Hosts
title = Hosts running IPv4
probe = FPing

++ multi
menu  = MultiTarget
title = Multiple Targets
host  = /IPv4/host1 \
        /IPv4/host2 \
        /IPv4/host3

++ host1
host = host1.planet

++ host2
host = host2.planet

++ host3
host = host3.planet


+ IPv6
menu = IPv6 Hosts
title = Hosts running IPv6
probe = FPing6

++ multi
menu  = MultiTarget
title = Multiple Targets
host  = /IPv6/host1 \
        /IPv6/host2 \
        /IPv6/host3

++ host1
host = host1.planet

++ host2
host = host2.planet

++ host3
host = host3.planet


+ HTTP
menu = HTTP
title = some HTTP Probes
probe = EchoPingHttp

++ google-com
host = www.google.com

++ uzh
host = www.uzh.ch
EOF

Restart Smokeping

systemctl restart smokeping

Browse

http://smokeping.planet/smokeping

Add Cert for Nginx on Debian

https://github.com/kshcherban/acme-nginx

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https://smokeping.planet/smokeping

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