Download SmokePing 2.3.5

You can use a simple ping command to monitor the presence of various components in the network. However, you can only view the current status and the output is text-based. An application that keeps a history of availability and can then display this graphically is Smokeping. This application requires a web server with Perl, Rrdtool and some other components. This allows an overview to be set up as on this page can be viewed. The developers have released version 2.3.5 with the following announcement:

users!

I have released smoking 2.3.5. This release contains a single bug fix by Niko. Slaves restart properly when they get new config.

cheers
tobi

Version 2.3.5:

• make slaves kill their old children off before forking new ones when the configuration changes. Reported by David Behr. –niko

Version 2.3.4:

• fix ‘loss_background’ documentation. Reported by David Tomic. –niko
• fix local variable override handling in connection with nomasterpoll –niko
• add protocol level master/slave protocol to control upgrades –tobi
• fix ordering of menu entries again –tobi
• bail out if the master/slave shared secret file is world-readable or writable –niko
• add some security notes to the master/slave documentation –niko
• Switch message hash generation to Digest::HMAC_MD5 (bundled) since this prevents the extension attack. Note that this change requires that you upgrade client and server in sync (you should do that anyway, but especially because of this)! — toby
• make sure when loading the sortercache that we only load info about graphs presently in the config. –tobi
• optionally precreate the directory structure under ‘dyndir’ if ‘precreateperms’ is set –niko
• store the slave updates in ‘dyndir’, defaulting to ‘datadir’ –niko
• change the slave update locking code so that reading works without write access to the temporary storage file –niko
• allow SSH probe to config rsa1 key — Walery Kokarev
• make zooming work properly even for graphs generated with the navigator form time range fields. — toby

Version 2.3.3:

• use separate slave cache and longer slave timeout. this helps with slave congestion — Phillip Moore pdm yahoo-inc.com
• add an optional –pid-dir option to specify the pid directory when running as a slave. –niko
• slaves were not polling targets where nomasterpoll was set –tobi

Version 2.3.2:

• make ajax mode work on IE again — tobi
• make rawlog mode work again –tobi
• make ajax mode work for nomasterpol targets –tobi
• fixe ordering of menu versus overview page –tobi

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