Technology, Food, Life

Our Network Engineers at work have been trying to troubleshoot a site-tosite VPN connectivity issue with a remote office for a few weeks. They need to figure out whether or not the connection issues are on our provider’s side or not. As a result, I’d configured our Smokeping installation to monitor the firewall and switch at our remote office, alerting us when we saw a loss of packets. Our network guys asked if smokeping had a trouceroute utility built-in. I replied that it did not.

After some research, I realized that you can configure Smokeping alerts to run a script. I created a Python script that runs an MTR report against the offending host and emails the results. Have a look at this page to download the script and configure it in Smokeping.