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TSMOKE(1) SmokePing TSMOKE(1) NAME tSmoke - Commandline tool for sending SmokePing information SYNOPSIS tSmoke [ --testmail | --morning | --weekly | --version | --help | --man | --slaves ] Options: --man Show the manpage --help Help :-) --version Show SmokePing Version --testmail Send a test message --listrrds List the RRDs used by this Smokeping --morning Send a morning synopsis --weekly Send a weekly status report --to E-mail address to send message (i.e. '--to=xyz@company.com.invalid' --detail How much detail to send in weekly report (i.e. '--detail=1') --quiet Do not print welcome --slaves Enable slave support assumes all slaves unless csv list of slaves is added (i.e. '--slaves' or '--slaves=slave1[,slave2...]') DESCRIPTION The tSmoke tool is a commandline tool which interfaces with the SmokePing system. Its main function is to send a message indicating the current status of the systems being monitored by Smokeping or an HTML mail file containing the status over the past day, past week and past month including an overview. Typical crontab used to invoke this are # Quick morning alert to see what's down 0 6 * * * /usr/local/smokeping/bin/tSmoke.pl --q --to=mobilephone@att.net.invalid --morning # Weekly report on the percent availability of network systems with no detail 0 8 * * * /usr/local/smokeping/bin/tSmoke.pl --q --to=mailbox@company.com.invalid --weekly --detail=0 SETUP When installing tSmoke, some variables must be adjusted to fit your local system. We need to use the following libraries: Smokeping RRDTool Perl bindings Getopt::Long Set up your libraries: use lib "/usr/local/smokeping/lib"; use lib "/usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.39/lib/perl"; Point to your Smokeping config file my $cfgfile = "/usr/local/smokeping/etc/config"; Modify the Smokeping config file to include a path for tmail in the General section: tmail = /usr/local/smokeping/etc/tmail SEE ALSO smokeping(1), smokeping_config(5) COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2003 by Dan McGinn-Combs. All right reserved. LICENSE This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. AUTHOR Dan McGinn-Combs <d.mcginn-combs@mindspring.com> Modified for Smokeping official distribution by Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi> 2.9.0 2025-04-18 TSMOKE(1)
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