There is a fairly powerful description language for the types of loss/latency you want to detect with Smokeping. If you modify the script shipped with Observium to build the Smokeping targets you can probably hook the smokeping alerts up pretty easily.
However, this is only going to measure loss/latency from Observium to the router. It is not going to measure latency/loss from your router to the customer. Smokeping can do that, but Observium isn't set up to generate those kinds of configs, and it would require a smokeping agent sitting in a network close to the router the customer is attached to.
What Observium could do is alert on the rate of errors on an interface, but not latency or loss across the interface, unless you are actually monitoring the customer's equipment with Observium.
From: observium [observium-bounces@observium.org] on behalf of Darian Jimenez [darian929@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 6:50 PM
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm
Bruce,
I just looked at smoke ping and it looks nice. There's integration of it with observium? If so where can I find the integration steps?
Sent from my iPhoneI though smokeping integration handled this?
Bruce
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Darian Jimenez
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:38 PM
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm
Same here. Would love some other process run pings and check for this. At this time the only time devices are pinged are at polling right ?
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Lane Eckley <lane@staff.hypernia.com> wrote:Hi Adam,
We would love to see this implemented as well, but on a somewhat limited basis.
Maybe a 2nd poller can be run ever X minutes which pings selected devices 5 times and measures for packetloss?
-Lane
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong
Sent: October 30, 2014 9:20 PM
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm
We already do ping/latency. Doing packetloss is a different thing, because we have to send a lot of packets at a device and measure how many are returned. I'm not sure if it's something we can do in the poller without affecting other things.
adam.
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From: "Darian Jimenez" <darian929@gmail.com>
To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium@observium.org>
Sent: 10/30/2014 6:55:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm
Tom/Adam,
Is this something that you guys will be implementing in the future ? I think a lot of people would love to monitor and alert based on packet drops or latency and just basic ping test.
If not is it something hard to impelled end on ones own?
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 30, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cx> wrote:We don't measure packet loss, so you can't send an alarm on it.
On 10/30/2014 10:28 AM, Brett Jones wrote:Hi there.
Resending out message as I am hoping someone can assist me with this.
How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm?
I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this.
I have set an alert as
device_ping gt 250
type_match *
*
This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency.
But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work!
Any help would be most appreciated.
Kind regards
Brett Jones
2nd/3rd line support engineer
Tel: 01202 612000
Fax: 01202 612111
E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net
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From: Brett Jones
Sent: 29 October 2014 11:18
To: 'observium@observium.org'
Subject: help with an alarm
Hi there,
Just got your product up and working with a few back end modifies ect we have a good monitoring system hear. We paid the extra to have the alert functionality as we are an ISP.
I have a question though for you.
How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm?
I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this.
I have set an alert as
device_ping gt 250
type_match *
*
This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency.
But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work!
Any help would be most appreciated.
Kind regards
Brett Jones
2nd/3rd line support engineer
Tel: 01202 612000
Fax: 01202 612111
E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net
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