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| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttp.pm | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttps.pm | 4 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +* 3 pings is the official minimum now -- niko * 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 diff --git a/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod b/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod index cbc324a..ac393aa 100644 --- a/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod +++ b/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod @@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ The matcher modules have been renamed to start with a capital letter, to differentiate the actual modules from the base classes. You have to capitalize the matcher name in the pattern definition accordingly. +=item Minimum number of pings + +The C<pings> variable now has an enforced minimum value of 3, as the +whole design of Smokeping is based on the idea of sending several probes +and measuring and visualizing the variation between them. + =back In addition to this, some probes have had minor incompatible changes to diff --git a/lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm b/lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm index 8e40067..fdce3d6 100644 --- a/lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm +++ b/lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm @@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ sub pod_hash { Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi> DOC notes => <<DOC, +You should consider setting a lower value for the C<pings> variable than the +default 20, as repetitive URL fetching may be quite heavy on the server. + The URL to be tested used to be specified by the variable 'url' in earlier versions of Smokeping, and the 'host' setting did not influence it in any way. The variable name has now been changed to 'urlformat', and it can diff --git a/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttp.pm b/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttp.pm index 464dd12..570ab66 100644 --- a/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttp.pm +++ b/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttp.pm @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ DOC Measures HTTP roundtrip times (web servers and caches) for SmokePing. DOC notes => <<DOC, +You should consider setting a lower value for the C<pings> variable than the +default 20, as repetitive URL fetching may be quite heavy on the server. + The I<fill>, I<size> and I<udp> EchoPing variables are not valid for EchoPingHttp. DOC authors => <<'DOC', diff --git a/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttps.pm b/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttps.pm index 13cd7f5..629400e 100644 --- a/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttps.pm +++ b/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttps.pm @@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ DOC description => <<DOC, As EchoPingHttp(3pm), but SSL-enabled. DOC +notes => <<DOC, +You should consider setting a lower value for the C<pings> variable than the +default 20, as repetitive URL fetching may be quite heavy on the server. +DOC authors => <<'DOC', Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi> DOC |