smokeping for Centos7

I am using Centos7 + smokeping-2.6.9

lets start up by install needed package

before that, we will need to enable Epel repo

You can install EPEL by running yum install epel-release. The package is included in the CentOS Extras repository, enabled by default.

# yum install epel-release

Then follow up by the package for

• mod_fcgid
• httpd
• httpd-devel
• rrdtool
• perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI
• fping
• rrdtool-perl
• perl
• perl-Sys-Syslog

# yum install mod_fcgid httpd httpd-devel rrdtool perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI fping rrdtool-perl perl perl-Sys-Syslog

Then we will needed some package for Cpan to install perl stuff

# yum install perl-CPAN perl-local-lib perl-Time-HiRes

The last one is the package to create installation for smokeping

# yum groupinstall "Development tools"

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Now lets download the latest smokeping at http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/

currently the latest i saw is 2.6.9, so i just download that

# wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/smokeping-2.6.9.tar.gz

then extract it

# tar -zxvf smokeping-2.6.9.tar.gz

Install the smokeping perl stuff

# cd smokeping-2.6.9/setup

# ./build-perl-modules.sh

it will auto install needed perl

Once done, back to smokeping-2.6.9 folder and you will notice a folder name thirdparty is created

we will need to move it to /opt folder, but before that, lets create smokeping folder at /opt first

then copy the thirdparty folder into it

# mkdir /opt/smokeping

# cp -r thirdparty /opt/smokeping/

# ./configure --prefix=/opt/smokeping

# make install

~ NOTE ~

if you encounter problem, please try make install again
this is because for my situation when i first make install, it pop some error but when i try make install again, the error gone

Now you can go to /opt/smokeping/etc and prepare the config file

# cd /opt/smokeping/etc
# for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done

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Now is time to prepare for the interface
make sure you had install apache
else please install it using yum install httpd

#vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

change:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var
to:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var smokeping.fcgi

then enable this
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

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# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/smokeping.conf

<Directory "/var/www/html/smokeping">
    Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>
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# mkdir /opt/smokeping/img
# mkdir /opt/smokeping/data
# mkdir /opt/smokeping/var
# mkdir /opt/smokeping/cache
# chown -R apache:apache /opt/smokeping/img
# chown -R apache:apache /opt/smokeping/cache
# ln -s /opt/smokeping/htdocs /var/www/html/smokeping
# ln -s /opt/smokeping/img /var/www/html/smokeping
# ln -s /opt/smokeping/cache /var/www/html/smokeping


# chmod 600 /opt/smokeping/etc/smokeping_secrets
# chmod 600 /opt/smokeping/etc/smokeping_secrets.dist
# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/smokeping

Before we start smokeping, please edit your configuration first
edit the smokeping config to your need (change the part in Red color word
# vim /opt/smokeping/etc/config
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*** General ***

owner    = Peter Random
contact  = some@address.nowhere
mailhost = my.mail.host (Ignore if you do not have smtp server)
sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
# NOTE: do not put the Image Cache below cgi-bin
# since all files under cgi-bin will be executed ... this is not
# good for images.
imgcache = /opt/smokeping/cache
imgurl   = cache
datadir  = /opt/smokeping/data
piddir  = /opt/smokeping/var
cgiurl   = http://some.url/smokeping.cgi
smokemail = /opt/smokeping/etc/smokemail.dist
tmail = /opt/smokeping/etc/tmail.dist
# specify this to get syslog logging
syslogfacility = local0
# each probe is now run in its own process
# disable this to revert to the old behaviour
# concurrentprobes = no

*** Alerts ***
to = alertee@address.somewhere
from = smokealert@company.xy

+someloss
type = loss
# in percent
pattern = >0%,*12*,>0%,*12*,>0%
comment = loss 3 times  in a row

*** Database ***

step     = 300
pings    = 20

# consfn mrhb steps total

AVERAGE  0.5   1  1008
AVERAGE  0.5  12  4320
    MIN  0.5  12  4320
    MAX  0.5  12  4320
AVERAGE  0.5 144   720
    MAX  0.5 144   720
    MIN  0.5 144   720

*** Presentation ***

template = /opt/smokeping/etc/basepage.html.dist

+ charts

menu = Charts
title = The most interesting destinations

++ stddev
sorter = StdDev(entries=>4)
title = Top Standard Deviation
menu = Std Deviation
format = Standard Deviation %f

++ max
sorter = Max(entries=>5)
title = Top Max Roundtrip Time
menu = by Max
format = Max Roundtrip Time %f seconds

++ loss
sorter = Loss(entries=>5)
title = Top Packet Loss
menu = Loss
format = Packets Lost %f

++ median
sorter = Median(entries=>5)
title = Top Median Roundtrip Time
menu = by Median
format = Median RTT %f seconds

+ overview

width = 600
height = 50
range = 10h

+ detail

width = 600
height = 200
unison_tolerance = 2

"Last 3 Hours"    3h
"Last 30 Hours"   30h
"Last 10 Days"    10d
"Last 400 Days"   400d

#+ hierarchies
#++ owner
#title = Host Owner
#++ location
#title = Location

*** Probes ***

+ FPing

binary = /usr/sbin/fping

*** Slaves ***
secrets=/opt/smokeping/etc/smokeping_secrets.dist
+boomer
display_name=boomer
color=0000ff

+slave2
display_name=another
color=00ff00

*** Targets ***

probe = FPing

menu = Top
title = Network Latency Grapher
remark = Welcome to the SmokePing website of xxx Company. \
         Here you will learn all about the latency of our network.

+ Server
menu= Targets

++ google

menu = google.com
title = google.com
alerts = someloss
host = www.google.com
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For mine, i had turn off my firewalld as it was mean for private LAN
# systemctl stop firewalld

and i also had turn SeLinux
# setenforce 0

Start the apache service
# systemctl start httpd

start the smokeping services
# ./bin/smokeping --config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config --logfile=smoke.log

For startup script
you can get it from here
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/contrib/smokeping-start-script
just edit the smokeping path
then put at /etc/init.d/
chmod 755 it

Thanks Will for pointing out the typo and mistake