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PROGRAM:

NAME

smokeping - Commandline tool for SmokePing

SYNOPSIS

smokeping [ --email | --makepod | --version | --restart ]

Options:

--man[=x] Show the manpage for the program (or for probe x, if specified)

--help Help :-)

--email Send SmokePing Agents to all Targets marked DYNAMIC

--config=x Use a config file different from the default

--check Just check the config file syntax, don't start the daemon

--makepod[=x] Create POD documentation on Config file (or for probe x, if specified)

--version Show SmokePing Version

--debug Run Only once and do not Fork

--debug-daemon Start the daemon with debugging enabled

--restart Restart SmokePing

--reload Reload configuration in the running process without interrupting
any probes

--nodaemon Do no daemonize the process (no fork)

--filter=x Only measure entries which pass the filter x

--logfile=x Append warnings to logfile x.

--static[=x] Generates a static website in directory x. If x is left out,
pagedir from the config is used.

--nosleep For debugging you may want to run SmokePing without sleep interval

--gen-examples Generate the smokeping_examples document and example config files
(to be used while building inside the smokeping distribution)
With --check : check the syntax of the generated examples.

--master-url=s Run smokeping in slave mode. Attach to master for config.

--slave-name=s By default the slave will use whatever it thinks its name
is, when talking to its master. In some cases you may
probably want to override this.

--shared-secret=s File containing the shared secret for talking to the server.

--cache-dir=s Directory for temporary data storage when running in slave mode.

--pid-dir=s Directory for the PID file when running in slave mode.
(optional, defaults to --cache-dir)

DESCRIPTION

The smokeping tool is the commandline part of the SmokePing system. Its main function is
to run as a daemon and send Pings to all the Targets you have specified in the Config
file. When you call smokeping without arguments it will start as a daemon and do its work.

If called with an argument, then further functions can be activated, as seen in the
Synopsis above. The --email function is explained in the documentation on the config file.

The --filter option allows you to run the daemon on a big config file, but have the config
file filtered and only measure the entries that pass the filter. This is useful for remote
measurement. Run Smokeping with two exclusive filters in two locations and rsync the rrds
back to the webserver host where you run the cgi. Filters act on the section names in the
config file. Multiple section names are concatenated with / like path names:

*** targets ***
+ A
....
+ B
...
++ C

This gives

/A

and

/B, /B/C

If I want to monitor /A my filter would look like this:

--filter=/A

Filters follow regular expression syntax. The are always anchored at the tip of the
string. by adding a ! to the front of the filter string you negate it. Matching entries
will be excluded from monitoring. Multiple --filter arguments can be used to assemble
complex filters:

--filter=/A --filter=/B

would include all the targets

--filter=/A --filter=/B --filter=!/B/C

would include all but /B/C.

The --makepod does get used internally to produce the documentation on the SmokePing
configuration file.

Please refer to the installation document for detailed setup instructions.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2002 by Tobias Oetiker. All right reserved.

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