SmokePing
or
what happens when running ping becomes an obsession.
Lørdag 15.00-15.45 - centerhal
Tobias Oetiker
Abstract
Ping is a nice tool to see if a remote maschine is reachable. Ping also spits out a lot of numbers. This data can provide interesting insights into the propperties of a network link without requiering any priviledged access. Smokeping is a tool which can organize the pinging of many maschines for you. It stores the data and presents it graphically on the web. This talk is about SmokePing. Apart from explaining the basics it will also dive into the more involved features of smokeping like its alert functions and its plugin-interface.
Required knowledge
Unix knowledge.
About Tobias Oetiker
Tobias Oetiker is an electrical engineer by education and a system manager by vocation. He works at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich were he spends his time automating things which were never meant to be automated. In his spare time Tobi writes opensorce software like mrtg, rrdtool or smokeping.