smokeping-config

smokeping config is our derivation of the debian/ubuntu stock smokeping configuration into something we find easier to use as a base for our installs.

Installation process

These instructions assume that you are putting this repo into /home/chicks/Documents/git/smokeping-config which is probably not what you want. These commands have been translated into an ansible role.

In Debian/Ubuntu-land this should do it:

1. apt-get install apache2 apache2-doc apache2-utils # should be done before smokeping
2. apt-get install smokeping
3. service smokeping stop
4. mkdir -p /home/chicks/Documents/git
5. cd /home/chicks/Documents/git
6. git clone git@github.com:chicks-net/smokeping-config.git
7. cd smokeping-config
8. touch smokeping_secrets ; chmod 600 smokeping_secrets
9. cd /etc/
10. mv smokeping smokeping.as_installed
11. ln -s ~chicks/Documents/git/smokeping-config smokeping
12. service smokeping start
13. cd /etc/apache2/conf-available
14. ln -s ../../smokeping/apache2.conf smokeping.conf
15. a2enconf smokeping
16. a2enmod cgid
17. service apache2 restart

After 5-10 minutes you should have graphs in http://localhost/smokeping/smokeping.cgi and making this available more widely is left as an exercise for the reader. (Document pull requests are still welcomed.)

Categories

• Search
• Social
• Gaming
• APAC
• Europe
• DNS
• FINI
• RTB - real time bidding

Thanks

• wikipedia provided a nice list of popular sites with Alexa and Google together rankings.

• Netcraft made it easier to find the European sites.

• "junkken" on askUbuntu.com made it clear how to get it workig with Ubuntu's (?Debian's) unique apache2 config system.