safelinkinternet/smokeping repository overview

⁠Smokeping on Ubuntu

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⁠Running

Use this command to start the container. Smokeping will listen on port 8080.

docker run \
	--name smokeping \
	-d \
	-p 8080:80 \
	-e TZ="America/Boise" \
	-v <path/to/smokeping/data>:/data \
	-v <path/to/smokeping/config>:/config \
	safelinkinternet/smokeping

Once running the URL will be http://<host-ip>:8080/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi.

⁠Configuration

Parameters

• -p 80 - the port for the webUI
• -e TZ - configure the zoneinfo timezone, IE America/Boise
• -v /data - Storage location for db and application data (graphs etc)
• -v /config - All config files will be placed here

This container is based on phusion-baseimage. For shell access whilst the container is running do docker exec -it smokeping /bin/bash.

⁠Setting up the application

Basics are, edit the Targets file to ping the hosts you're interested in to match the format found here. Wait 10 minutes.

⁠Updates

• Upgrade to the latest version simply docker restart smokeping.
• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime docker logs -f smokeping.