Technology, Food, Life » MTR http://www.thetechchef.com Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:09:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Smokeping – Configure Alerts to Run MTR Trace http://www.thetechchef.com/2008/10/01/smokeping-configure-alerts-to-run-mtr-trace/ http://www.thetechchef.com/2008/10/01/smokeping-configure-alerts-to-run-mtr-trace/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:30:32 +0000 Scott http://www.thetechchef.com/?p=122 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.

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