[Xymon] WAN performance/monitoring

[Andy Smith]

Adam Goryachev wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> First some background, then sharing some scripts I've written/used, and 
> finally asking for some advice please.
> 
> Some time ago I was having a LAN issue (dropped packets) which I wrote a 
> small script to measure, and quantify the problem. (If you can't see the 
> problem, you can't fix it, and you can't prove it is fixed afterwards).
> 
> All the script did was use fping to ping a group of IP's once per 
> second, then every minute it would record a log of the date/time plus 
> one line for each IP that had one or more dropped packets. This worked 
> nicely for the above purpose, allowing me to easily pinpoint the common 
> machines experiencing the problem, and then eventually solve it.
> 
> Now I'd like to extend the script to cover my WAN connections, but I 
> also need more information, and don't want to re-invent the wheel. So, 
> I'm looking for suggestions on how to implement what I need, and/or 
> other products that already do this.

Have you looked at smokeping :-

http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/

This has its own presentation and alerting mechanisms, but we have a 
Xymon extension similar to 
https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:bbsmokeping which integrates 
into a Xymon page so we can manage alerting and history.

-- 
Andy