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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 sta- tus of the systems being monitored by Smokeping or an HTML mail file con- taining 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 un- der 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 FIT- NESS 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 2026-08-04 TSMOKE(1)
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