It seems that at least on Debian/ubuntu current smokeping packages are broken and their init scripts aren’t passing variables correctly.

Adam.

From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong via observium
Sent: 19 December 2020 21:50
To: observium@observium.org
Cc: Adam Armstrong <adama@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Smokeping graphs post migration

The issue here, I think, is that the slaves aren’t collecting their config from the master, and thus aren’t polling anything.

I just installed smokeping on a couple of systems here, and I can’t get the stupid thing to talk to the master from the slaves, it’s not even attempting to.

I guess you’ve only replaced the master though, so I’m not sure why it’s behaving like this. Certainly the slaves need to access the URL defined to collect their config, so check that first? Perhaps an HTTPS redirect or something is confusing them.

It’s been a decade since I used smokeping, so I’m not sure why it’s not working. J

Adam.

From: Joey Stanford <nv0n@rmham.org>
Sent: 19 December 2020 21:46
To: Observium <observium@observium.org>
Cc: Adam Armstrong <adama@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Smokeping graphs post migration

 It seems this bit of code isn’t being triggered at all, which suggests none of your filenames have a tilde in them?

correct

As a side note, smokeping-generate vs my actual targets appears to differ.

# jstanford @ observium in ~ [14:44:02]

$ diff smokeping-obs-script.txt smokeping-actual-targert.txt

174,179d173

< ++ radio-cedarwood_fremont_rmham

< host = radio-cedarwood.fremont.rmham

<

< ++ radio-cedarwood_pueblo_rmham

< host = radio-cedarwood.pueblo.rmham

<

582,584d575

< ++ router_n5zgt_qth

< host = router.n5zgt.qth

<

737,739d727

<

< ++ wifi_ac0kq_rmham

< host = wifi.ac0kq.rmham