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Title : Traceroute to Smokeping Target config
Author : Remy van Elst
Date : 28-06-2014
URL : https://raymii.org/s/snippets/Traceroute_to_Smokeping_Target_Config.html
Format : Markdown/HTML
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This little one-liner converts the output of traceroute to Smokeping Target
output. This way you can build your smokeping config faster.
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There is an [IPv6 version of this article][2].
You can see smokeping in action [here at serverius][3]. More info about
[Smokeping here on the website][4].
I have most hops from my ISP in my smokeping config to see where the latency
might be. This traceroute one liner helps to get the right config.
traceroute -w 3 example.org | grep -v "*" | sed -e 's/(//g' -e 's/)//g' | awk '{ gsub(/\./,"_",$2); print "++ "$2"\nmenu = "$3"\ntitle = "$2" - "$3"\nhost = "$3"\n"}'
The "*" are grepped out, the `()` are removed from the IP address and we also
replace . in the hostname so that Smokeping doesn't barf on that.
This will give you something like this (for [tweakers.net][5]:
++ 0_so-1-2-0_xr1_tc2_xs4all_net
menu = 194.109.5.14
title = 0_so-1-2-0_xr1_tc2_xs4all_net - 194.109.5.14
host = 194.109.5.14
++ amsix_true_nl
menu = 195.69.144.171
title = amsix_true_nl - 195.69.144.171
host = 195.69.144.171
++ ams7_edge01_tengig-6-1-11_true_nl
menu = 87.233.1.218
title = ams7_edge01_tengig-6-1-11_true_nl - 87.233.1.218
host = 87.233.1.218
++ tweakers_net
menu = 213.239.154.20
title = tweakers_net - 213.239.154.20
host = 213.239.154.20
Or for [reddit.com][6]:
++ 0_so-1-2-0_xr1_tc2_xs4all_net
menu = 194.109.5.14
title = 0_so-1-2-0_xr1_tc2_xs4all_net - 194.109.5.14
host = 194.109.5.14
++ eth7-1_edge1_ams5_nl_atrato_net
menu = 195.69.145.229
title = eth7-1_edge1_ams5_nl_atrato_net - 195.69.145.229
host = 195.69.145.229
++ eth1-6_edge2_ams5_nl_as5580_net
menu = 78.152.44.44
title = eth1-6_edge2_ams5_nl_as5580_net - 78.152.44.44
host = 78.152.44.44
++ 78_152_38_234
menu = 78.152.38.234
title = 78_152_38_234 - 78.152.38.234
host = 78.152.38.234
++ a23-62-98-210_deploy_static_akamaitechnologies_com
menu = 23.62.98.210
title = a23-62-98-210_deploy_static_akamaitechnologies_com - 23.62.98.210
host = 23.62.98.210
This can be pasted right in to Smokeping's config.
I use the following version of Traceroute:
$ traceroute -V
Modern traceroute for Linux, version 2.0.19, Sep 29 2013
Copyright (c) 2008 Dmitry Butskoy, License: GPL v2 or any later
[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=7435ae6b8212
[2]: https://raymii.org/s/snippets/IPv6_Traceroute_to_Smokeping_Target_Config.html
[3]: http://smokeping.serverius.eu/
[4]: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
[5]: https://tweakers.net
[6]: http://reddit.com
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