Install dan Konfigurasi Smokeping Monitoring di Ubuntu 20.04

Salah satu senjata system administrator (SRE/DEVOPS) adalah oldschool smokeping. Smokeping berguna untuk memonitoring ping realtime. Tools ini sangat berguna untuk melihat spike dari respon server, atau bila terjadi masalah di koneksi internet anda.

Install Smokeping

apt install smokeping -y

Install Apache Web Server

apt install apache2 -y

Konfigurasi Smokeping

File konfigurasi smokeping ada di folder /etc/smokeping/, situs atau ip yang akan di test latency pingnya disimpan di /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets, ubah isi file Targets tersebut menjadi

*** 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.
 
+ Latency
menu = Latency
title = DNS
 
++ Google
menu = Google
title = Google
host = 8.8.8.8
 
++ Cloudflare 
menu = Cloudflare
title = Cloudflare
host = 1.1.1.1
 
++ OpenDNS 
menu = OpenDNS
title = OpenDNS
host = 208.67.222.222
 
++ Quad9 
menu = Quad9
title = Quad9
host = 9.9.9.9

Ubah file permission /var/lib/smokeping

chown smokeping:www-data -R /var/lib/smokeping/

Aktifkan cgi dan smokeping di apache

a2enmod cgid
a2enconf smokeping

Validasi Konfigurasi Smokeping

Validasi konfigurasi smokeping dengan smokeping --check

smokeping --check
# output
Configuration file '/etc/smokeping/config' syntax OK.

Jalankan Smokeping

Aktifkan service smokeping waktu booting

systemctl enable smokeping

jalankan service smokeping

systemctl restart smokeping

Web UI Smokeping

Buka website smokeping di http://IP-SERVER/smokeping

tunggu sampai 5 menit hingga muncul grafik ping nya.