[xymon] conn/ping latency warning

[Vernon Everett]

Or you could try rolling your own.
Use this as the basis.
ping -c 10 $IP | grep ttl | sed "s/=/ /g" | awk '{ sum+=$10 } END { print
"Average = ",sum/NR }'
Flavour to taste.

Regards
   Vernon



On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Thomas Eckert
<thomas.eckert at it-eckert.de>wrote:

>
> Hi Marc,
>
> to my knowledge this cannot be done with (vanilla) xymon but a tool
> designed
> exactly for this is smokeping
>        http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
> smokeping collects latency-data (for ping and many other protocols) in RRD
> graphs an can send warning e-mails on certain criteria.
>
> I seem to remember an extension on deadcat that allows the integration on
> smokeping (in big-brother and probably hobbit/xymon as well) but never
> tested
> it myself.
> The upcomping feature of xymon to generate status-messages from arbitrary
> rrd-files may ease the integration.
>
> For generating the smokeping-configuration from a bb-hosts file I have
> created
> an quick-and-dirty script I could share.
>
> HTH,
>
>        Thomas
>
>
>
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Marc Fricke wrote:
>
>  How do I enable warnings/alerts based on the conn/ping "latency" for a
>> device? I know it will allow you to set warnings based on the amount of
>> fails but not the latency itself - do I need a custom script/command for
>> this? EG. Go yellow on 500ms+ ping red on 1000ms+ ping?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marc
>>
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