[Mtools-report] First list of targets

[Jeremy_Powell at sbcss.k12.ca.us]

Thanks for doing this.  I was planning on writing a perl script to do the
same and dump it into our local smokeping just to make sure it could collect
data from eveything.  I will look into the problems and get an updated list.
 
I think that either a regional or primary hub site based hierarchy makes the
most sense.
 
Jerm

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From: John Haskins [mailto:jah at ucsb.edu]
Sent: Wed 11/21/2007 6:26 PM
To: Jeremy Powell
Cc: mtools-report at lists.cenic.org
Subject: Re: [Mtools-report] First list of targets



I ran Jeremy's list through awk and put up a kick-me smokeping instance
at:
https://dogbert.commserv.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=CENIC-mtools-p
ilot

I noticed (because I used the hostname as the target identifier and
smokeping complained) that there were a couple of duplicated hostnames:

las-cc.cenic.net used for both Los Angeles Southwest CC and Lassen CC
pal-cc.cenic.net used for both Palomar CC and Palo Verde CC

Probably a scripted bit of dns digging would be a better way to verify
the hostnames and addresses.

The host that's running the smokeping doesn't seem very heavily loaded
by the addition of ~230 new targets, but the flat menu structure means
that the  index page is pretty slow to redraw; we might want to give
some thought to whether there's a reasonable hierarchy (regional maybe?)
that would help the presentation.

A couple of the targets aren't replying to me, whether because of
firewalls, outages, or typing goofs in the config.

-john

Jeremy_Powell at sbcss.k12.ca.us wrote, On 11/21/2007 2:42 PM:
> I need to do some cleanup and automated checking of this list, but its a
good
> start.  There a a few on the list with comments and I put some UC equipment
> in there because it was in the CPE section of rancid that probably does not
> belong.
>
> As I was making the list I started to wonder about the value of checking
our
> peer and ISP connections as well.  I can think of three reasons this might
be
> problematic, but trying it might be the easiest way to find out:
>
> 1) The peer connections might change rapidly and therefore being hard to
keep
> in a smokeping config
> 2) The peer and ISP connections might not allow or rate limit ISP
> 3) The peer and ISP equipment might not necessarily be good ping targets
>
> Jerm
>
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