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author | Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi> | 2005-02-18 14:04:12 +0100 |
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committer | Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi> | 2005-02-18 14:04:12 +0100 |
commit | f6d4093e0dc827fbc853ed21ad3cb0ab1f898704 (patch) | |
tree | 3a1b6a248b2a3af2f95ee309b0defa5eb570dc19 /doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod | |
parent | 634fe0bf599454c203fd64e9f634e8a3d3abf1c5 (diff) | |
download | smokeping-f6d4093e0dc827fbc853ed21ad3cb0ab1f898704.tar.gz smokeping-f6d4093e0dc827fbc853ed21ad3cb0ab1f898704.tar.xz |
* graph fixes for small numbers of pings -- Chris Wilson <chris *aidworld.org>
* fix the LDAP probe killing the CGI with perl <5.6 -- Peter Farmer <pfarmer *hashbang.org.uk>
* make the LDAP probe work withouth IO::Socket::SSL -- niko
* make Curl description shorter -- Chris Wilson <chris *aidworld.org>
* use CGI::Carp for CGI error handling
- remove the now unnecessary kludge from AnotherDNS
* don't call exit() in the daemon __DIE__ handler
* raise Curl and EchoPingHttp{,s} default timeouts
* add a section on timeouts to smokeping_upgrade
* add IO::Socket::SSL to smokeping_install
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diff --git a/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod b/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod index 6c5fbc3..cbc324a 100644 --- a/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod +++ b/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod @@ -76,6 +76,19 @@ This is not an incompatible change, but it is mentioned here nevertheless. Target-specific variables can now be specified in the Probes section as well, and the values given become defaults for all the targets. +=item Timeouts + +The C<timeout> variable in the Probes section is now the maximum time +expected for B<one> ping to take. Previously it was the maximum time +allowed for all the pings to one target. This is an incompatible change, +but the code now works in the way it was documented to work even in 1.38. + +Those probes offering a target-specific C<timeout> variable will get a +default for it from the Probes section, as noted in the previous item. +This should ensure that probes that enforce the ping timeout themselves +(most do) will not get killed due to timeout before they have a chance +to do it. + =item Matchers The matcher modules have been renamed to start with a capital letter, @@ -110,6 +123,16 @@ The change was made to fix the confusing situation where the C<host> variable was required for each actual target, but it didn't actually have any effect (as the server to be probed came from the C<url> variable.) +The default timeout of this probe has been raised to 10 seconds. + +=item L<EchoPingHttp|Smokeping::probes::EchoPingHttp> + +The default timeout of this probe has been raised to 10 seconds. + +=item L<EchoPingHttps|Smokeping::probes::EchoPingHttps> + +The default timeout of this probe has been raised to 10 seconds. + =item L<EchoPingIcp|Smokeping::probes::EchoPingIcp> The C<url> variable is now mandatory, as the old default "/" didn't make |