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Pung the Provider

sleddogsleddog Member
edited July 2012 in Providers

http://chi.blite.ca/pungcm/

From VPS in Chicago.

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  • JoeMeritJoeMerit Member

    Wow that looks cool, surprised by some of the results there too.

  • Ash_HawkridgeAsh_Hawkridge Member

    Woop we're winning :D

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  • eastoncheastonch Member

    I like it; self-coded? If so... mind if I have a copy? ;']

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  • HalfEatenPieHalfEatenPie Member

    @eastonch said: self-coded?

    Skynet.

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  • eastoncheastonch Member

    whatnow?

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  • sleddogsleddog Member
    edited July 2012

    @GetKVM_Ash said: Woop we're winning :D

    Looks like a two-way tie to me :)

    @eastonch said: I like it; self-coded?

    Yes.

    If so... mind if I have a copy? ;']

    Eventually. The Bash backend needs more testing (the purpose of the site) and the PHP is incomplete. It would help if someone would go offline for a while ;)

    @HalfEatenPie said: Skynet.

    ?

  • HalfEatenPieHalfEatenPie Member

    Anyone ever watched Terminator?

    Skynet because it can self-code itself and therefore gain consciousness! (then try to kill us all)

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  • AsadAsad Member

    @HalfEatenPie How is the status script going to take over the world exactly?

  • eastoncheastonch Member

    @sleddog just point it to a vps you own, turn it off.

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  • sleddogsleddog Member

    @eastonch said: just point it to a vps you own, turn it off.

    Did lots of that :)

  • HalfEatenPieHalfEatenPie Member

    @AsadHaider said: How is the status script going to take over the world exactly?

    Its a joke.

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  • AsadAsad Member

    @HalfEatenPie said: Its a joke.

    Yeah I know, I was joking too :P

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  • eastoncheastonch Member

    I want this code :/ cant be arsed to make my own... :P

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  • AsadAsad Member

    @sleddog How exactly are you doing the checks? If you don't mind me asking.

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  • jshinklejshinkle Disabled

    I like it.

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  • Ash_HawkridgeAsh_Hawkridge Member

    @BlueVM - not anymore lol, what happened.

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  • sleddogsleddog Member
    edited July 2012

    @AsadHaider said: How exactly are you doing the checks? If you don't mind me asking.

    Bash script using pung.

    A test goes something like this:

    • pung the IP with default timeout of 5 seconds
    • if it times out, check that internet access is OK
    • if OK, sleep 5 seconds and retry the IP
    • if it fails a second time, log it as failed and move on to the next IP

    Internet access check:

    • select two hosts from a list of 'high-availability' hosts: google.com, twitter.com, yahoo.com, etc.
    • pung the first one
    • if it fails, sleep 5 seconds and pung the second one
    • if it also fails, log internet access as failed and exit
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  • DamianDamian Member

    Can providers be added upon request?

  • sleddogsleddog Member
    edited July 2012

    @Damian said: Can providers be added upon request?

    Sure. I've just been picking them from the offers and aiming for geographic diversity.

  • djvdorpdjvdorp Member

    @sleddog said: Sure. I've just been picking them from the offers and aiming for geographic diversity.

    If you're interested, you can ping some of my geographic diverse boxes too (I am just a client, no hoster). Have you seen my (unrelated) PM here btw?

    Check my blog for more cool *nix tips & tricks!

  • JacobJacob Member

    You for real? Where am I.... ;)

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  • InfinityInfinity Member, Provider

    @Jacob said: Where am I.... ;)

    You're in the UK! Get your bearings!

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  • sleddogsleddog Member

    @djvdorp said: Have you seen my (unrelated) PM here btw?

    I have now, and replied :)

    @Infinity said: @Jacob said: Where am I.... ;)

    You're in the UK! Get your bearings!

    Glad we got that sorted....

  • prometeusprometeus Member, Provider

    Wow! I see we are now monitored! (just a small correction prometeus is without "h") :)

    Thanks

    I know that this might be difficult to code but it would be fantastic if you could add the ability to talk between two (or more ) instance of your script as part of the check sequence. I.e. the instance in chicago talk with another instance in london or los angeles to have confirmation of a down or severe packet loss...

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  • AmitzAmitz Member

    Does not look too good for ChicagoVPS in Buffalo today. My VPS there is unreachable and the Pung Monitor shows the same...

    Timeout (14) 75.127.3.3 80  759 14  98.16%  ChicagoVPS - Buffalo

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  • sleddogsleddog Member

    @prometeus said: prometeus is without "h"

    Oops, fixed :)

  • jcalebjcaleb Moderator

    How to ping a provider on port 80? Is it just wget the index of the site?

  • jcalebjcaleb Moderator

    @prometeus said: I know that this might be difficult to code but it would be fantastic if you could add the ability to talk between two (or more ) instance of your script as part of the check sequence. I.e. the instance in chicago talk with another instance in london or los angeles to have confirmation of a down or severe packet loss...

    One way I am thinking is, if its SQL-LITE based, then just git commit the db file at some interval. then a master one just pull the sql lite from diff location and consolidate.

  • sleddogsleddog Member
    edited July 2012

    @jcaleb said: How to ping a provider on port 80? Is it just wget the index of the site?

    It's pung, not ping :) No data is transferred.

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  • sleddogsleddog Member
    edited July 2012

    @jcaleb said: @prometeus said: I know that this might be difficult to code but it would be fantastic if you could add the ability to talk between two (or more ) instance of your script as part of the check sequence. I.e. the instance in chicago talk with another instance in london or los angeles to have confirmation of a down or severe packet loss...

    One way I am thinking is, if its SQL-LITE based, then just git commit the db file at some interval. then a master one just pull the sql lite from diff location and consolidate.

    I'd argue that this kind of approach introduces more complexity, and more complexity brings more potential for error. I wrote about it in the other monitoring thread: http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/90513#Comment_90513

    It's important I think to take the results of the pung monitor quite literally. At the moment, connections to the CVPS Buffalo target are timing out. That doesn't mean CVPS Buffalo is "down". It might be, or there might be a network issues between the Chicago monitor & CVPS Buffalo. A second (or third) monitoring station would answer that only if it took a completely different route to the CVPS Buffalo target (triangulation). But it's impossible to control routing for something like this.

    So my preference to keep the monitoring as it is -- a single, simple point-to-point test -- and then investigate manually when an issue crops up.

  • prometeusprometeus Member, Provider

    @sleddog said: So my preference to keep the monitoring as it is -- a single, simple point-to-point test -- and then investigate manually when an issue crops up.

    I understand, but a quorum between monitoring nodes would be a valuable plus :D

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  • sleddogsleddog Member

    @prometeus said: I understand, but a quorum between monitoring nodes would be a valuable plus :D

    Can you explain the benefit it would add?

  • jcalebjcaleb Moderator
    edited July 2012

    @prometeus said: I understand, but a quorum between monitoring nodes would be a valuable plus :D

    how about a main website that pulls the info from different pung slaves, then display in different tabs per location. i.e. it doesnt consolidate per ping. just show 1 tab for the node in canada. 1 tab for node in LA. etc

  • prometeusprometeus Member, Provider

    @sleddog said: Can you explain the benefit it would add?

    To limit false positive :-)

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  • ZiggaZigga Member

    @sleddog said: Can you explain the benefit it would add?

    Say a cable like SEA-ME-WE4 breaks, this cable works in sections. We know Bangladesh only has access to this cable(they have backup satellite links) how ever if your in Bangladesh your opinion is the internet is failing you, as where as if you have a slave in (say India) you know that not true. (terrible example)

    When you talking about IP traffic its vital you have Src/Dst and 3rd monitor to verify Src/Dst isn't broken.

    People who sell this type of information

    google that will ya?

  • sleddogsleddog Member

    @prometeus said: To limit false positive :-)

    To me a false positive means that a test is reported as "OK" when it's not. The only way I can see that happening is by a bug in the pung app.

    Maybe you mean false negative -- a test is reported as "timed out" when it's actually OK. To me, timed out means timed out -- remember the test is actually two attempts over a ~15 sec timespan (with a successful connection to google or twitter or facebook in between). So something went wrong. Still, I tend to discount single, isolated failures as insignificant / unimportant.

  • miTgiBmiTgiB Member

    @sleddog said: That doesn't mean CVPS Buffalo is "down".

    With IPXcore reporting up and being in the same racks, at most the machine you are testing for in Buffalo could have an issue, but ChicagoVPS Buffalo is defiantly up.

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  • sleddogsleddog Member

    @miTgiB said: With IPXcore reporting up and being in the same racks, at most the machine you are testing for in Buffalo could have an issue, but ChicagoVPS Buffalo is defiantly up.

    By "CVPS Buffalo" I meant the CVPS Buffalo target (IP:port), not all services provided by CVPS in Buffalo. :)

  • prometeusprometeus Member, Provider

    Yes, I'm looking this from the side of the allert point of view. I would like a "Huston, we got a problem" message only when double checked/confirmed. But don't want to insist, your point to keep it simple is valid :P

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  • jshinklejshinkle Disabled

    There just went my uptime. Still strong in Chicago though.

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  • Ash_HawkridgeAsh_Hawkridge Member

    This is when you know pingdom is not always correct. It spotted a 5 minute downtime (Monitored every minute) last night, yet pung has reported no problems.

    Whats the check interval @sleddog

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  • sleddogsleddog Member

    @GetKVM_Ash said: Whats the check interval @sleddog

    5 minutes. So it's just possible it was missed :)

  • Ash_HawkridgeAsh_Hawkridge Member

    Oh sorry, i just looked properly. It was only 4 seconds so pung probably missed it.

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  • sleddogsleddog Member

    @GetKVM_Ash said: It was only 4 seconds

    How can pingdom detect a 4 second outage when it checks every minute....?

  • Ash_HawkridgeAsh_Hawkridge Member

    LOL. I'm ashamed. I read the graphs wrong again, i didn't get much sleep last night :P

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  • sleddogsleddog Member

    @GetKVM_Ash said: i didn't get much sleep last night

    Pingdom kept you up? ;)

  • Ash_HawkridgeAsh_Hawkridge Member

    It disturbed me yeah, then just as i was about to get up i got the second SMS "hypervisor01 is back online". Doh.

    Sleeps never the same when you get disturbed :(

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  • sleddogsleddog Member

    @GetKVM_Ash said: Sleeps never the same when you get disturbed :(

    So true...

    BTW, on the pung page at bottom you can now set your local time offset (from UTC). "Last run" time at top will then be within 5 minutes of your local time, and the log will be in your local time.

    I changed the log time format to a unix timestamp for easier manipulation, that's why there's a new log.

  • Ash_HawkridgeAsh_Hawkridge Member

    Cool :)

    It surprises me how fast the page loads with so many checks, our status page can take forever sometimes, but thats probably because we have a PHP check for each service on the same page :P

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