Is it safe to reduce existing Probes' step size?
AlexDicy opened this issue · 0 comments
AlexDicy commented
Hi, I am currently using Smokeping with FPing only.
This is my Probes
file:
*** Probes ***
+ FPing
binary = /usr/bin/fping
step = 120
+ FPing6
binary = /usr/bin/fping
step = 120
protocol = 6
And my Database file:
*** Database ***
step = 300
pings = 20
# consfn mrhb steps total
AVERAGE 0.5 1 1008
AVERAGE 0.5 12 4320
MIN 0.5 12 4320
MAX 0.5 12 4320
AVERAGE 0.5 144 720
MAX 0.5 144 720
MIN 0.5 144 720
By looking at the charts, it looks like they are correctly updating every 120 seconds or 2 minutes:
Can I change my Probes' step from 120 to 60 or 30 without losing any data? Is it going to update and work for existing targets?
My goal is to have finer info on shorter cases of packet loss. Thank you!