Installing smokeping on Debian with nginx
This is my documentation on installing smokeping on Debian/Nginx. Based on Arch linux wiki (archlinux.org) and sleeplessbeastie’s blog (sleeplessbeastie.eu) and nginx docs on FCGI Wrap (nginx.com)
I had some issue with uwsgi so I went for fastcgi instead. Some other things to watch out for:
/var/lib/smokepingshould be owned by smokeping. Watch out it’s not owned by root when accidentally running smokeping in debug.ERROR: /etc/smokeping/config.d/pathnames, line 6: Directory '/run/smokeping' does not exist: runsudo systemctl restart smokeping.serviceto recreate PID dir.
Probes & targets ¶
/etc/smokeping/config.d/Probes:
*** Probes ***
+ FPing
binary = /usr/bin/fping
+DNS
binary = /usr/bin/dig
+Curl
binary = /usr/bin/curl
+AnotherCurl
binary = /usr/bin/curl
forks = 2
offset = 50%
follow_redirects = yes
include_redirects = yes
insecure_ssl = 1
urlformat = https://%host%/ # mandatory
/etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets
*** Targets ***
probe = FPing
menu = Top
title = Network Latency Grapher
remark = Welcome to Tim's SmokePing website. \
+ network
menu = Net latency
title = Network latency (ICMP pings)
++ MultiPing
menu = MultiPing
title = 2xAmsterdam + London + Moscow
host = /network/Amsterdam1 /network/Amsterdam2 /network/London /network/Moscow
++ Amsterdam1
host = ams-ix.net
++ Amsterdam2
host = test.ams1.servers.com
++ London
host = linx.net
++ Moscow
host = dataix.ru
++ Washington1
host = test.was1.servers.com
++ Washington2
host = test.was2.servers.com
+ dns
menu = DNS check
title = DNS check
probe = DNS
# Need a low-TTL domain here to prevent caching. Also we need a host we don't regularly use ourselves, or the local dns resolver will cache the result. I choose cnn.com
++ MultiDNS
menu = MultiDNS
title = Local + KPN + Google + Cloudflare
host = /dns/local /dns/kpn /dns/google /dns/cloudflare
++ local
menu = Local
title = DNS check using local DNS
host = cnn.com
pings = 5
server = 172.17.10.1
++ kpn
menu = KPN
title = DNS check using KPN ISP DNS
host = cnn.com
pings = 5
server = 195.121.1.34
++ google
menu = Google
title = DNS check using Google Public DNS
host = cnn.com
pings = 5
server = 8.8.8.8
++ cloudflare
menu = Cloudflare
title = DNS check using Cloudflare Public DNS
host = cnn.com
pings = 5
server = 1.1.1.1
++ dns0
menu = dns0
title = DNS check using dns0 Public DNS
host = cnn.com
pings = 5
server = 193.110.81.0
+ http
menu = HTTP check
title = HTTP check
probe = AnotherCurl
++ MultiHTTP
menu = MultiHTTP
title = QQ + Live + Yandex + Dailymail
host = /http/qq /http/live /http/yandex /http/dailymail
++ qq
host = qq.com
++ live
host = live.com
++ yandex
host = yandex.ru
++ dailymail
host = dailymail.co.uk