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New Face(s) in the Measurements and Tools Area
by Daniel Karrenberg 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Gentlepeople, I am very happy to announce that we have a new community builder for measuremnts and tools: Vesna Manjolovic. Many of you will know Vesna already as a trainer and through her very enthousiastic work on our IPv6 promotion and IPv6 related measurements. Vesna has been with the RIPE NCC for more than 10 years; it gives me great pleasure to promote her to a position that makes optimal use of her capabilities and ambitions. Vesna's first priorities will be to establish relationships with current and potential sponsors of RIPE Atlas and to help develop a plan for the evoloution of RIPE TTM. RIPE Atlas sponsors and RIPE TTM customers will hear from her soon. The decision to hire internally not only affirms that initiative and effort are rewarded at the RIPE NCC; it also provides the budgetary room to engage another person to help with the community building for measurements: Ann Barcomb will therefore join Vesna in October. >From that time both Vesna and Ann will start to work on additional goals such as building a strong community around RIPEstat. Please join me in welcoming Vesna and help her to achieve her goals, which are also our common goals. Daniel

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Re: [atlas] Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Bert Wijnen 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

On 9/7/11 4:35 AM, Robert wrote: > What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes offline or online? > > I’d like this is at will alert me to any network issue as soon as it happens allowing for that issue to be investigated and rectified. > > This means that the alert could serve a dual purpose: > > ·Increased network uptime > > ·Greater availability of the RIPE Atlas Probe (and thus increased data gathering). > > Anyway, this is something that I’d like to see – email alerts at a minimum. > Email alerts for sure. And pretty quick after the probe is detected to be offline. SMS might be nice, but I certainly would like to have a way to turn it off at times. Bert > Robert >

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Re: [atlas] Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Dennis Kögel 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Am 07.09.2011 um 05:53 schrieb Robert: > What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes offline or online? Doing this monitoring-style is not a job for the NCC, IMHO, as this certainly involves way more work that one might think at first. This is a case for your local monitoring solution, which does that job much better. That being said, it might make sense to e-mail hosts if a probe has been down for a *long* time (something like "one e-mail per week of downtime"), just to catch dead hosts and unnoticed configuration fails. - D.

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Re: [atlas] Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Daniel AJ Sokolov 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

On 07.09.2011 00:53 wrote Robert: > What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe > goes offline or online? I generally like the idea. There should be a threshold though - for example the e-mail could be triggered once the probe is offline for 5 minutes. BR Daniel AJ

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Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Robert 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes offline or online? I'd like this is at will alert me to any network issue as soon as it happens allowing for that issue to be investigated and rectified. This means that the alert could serve a dual purpose: . Increased network uptime . Greater availability of the RIPE Atlas Probe (and thus increased data gathering). Anyway, this is something that I'd like to see - email alerts at a minimum. Robert

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Re: [atlas] Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Richard L. Barnes 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

This might not actually be desirable until the probes stop crashing so often :) It might be more useful to have alarms that trigger on things like sudden or sustained increases in latency or loss, configurable by the probe host. --Richard On Sep 6, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Robert wrote: > What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes offline or online? > > I’d like this is at will alert me to any network issue as soon as it happens allowing for that issue to be investigated and rectified. > > This means that the alert could serve a dual purpose: > > · Increased network uptime > · Greater availability of the RIPE Atlas Probe (and thus increased data gathering). > > Anyway, this is something that I’d like to see – email alerts at a minimum. > > > Robert >

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Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Robert 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes offline or online? I'd like this is at will alert me to any network issue as soon as it happens allowing for that issue to be investigated and rectified. This means that the alert could serve a dual purpose: . Increased network uptime . Greater availability of the RIPE Atlas Probe (and thus increased data gathering). Anyway, this is something that I'd like to see - email alerts at a minimum. Robert

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[atlas]Apache again....
by Viktor Naoumov 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Back to apache... 'Listen 8080' was a bad solution because it opens apache to the world. Instead we should do now: Listen 127.0.0.1:8080 #Listen localhost:8080 Having Listen localhost:8080 <VirtualHost *:8080> prevents apache from starting with the following message: zelenka-dev:/etc/apache2# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Restarting web server: apache2 ... waiting (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 127.0.0.1:8080 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs Action 'start' failed. The Apache error log may have more information. failed! looks like it because zelenka-dev:/etc/apache2# host localhost localhost has address 127.0.0.1 localhost has IPv6 address ::1 but not sure yet.... didn't have time to figure out what do you think? /vty

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[atlas]UI for "My Probes" in IE7 broken (again)?
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

It looks like th UI for the "My Probes" section is broken again for IE7. All the other sections of the site seem to work. Wilfried.

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[atlas]Probe with static IPv6 can 'lock up' if unreachable on IPv6
by Kenneth Aalberg 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Greetings. As advised by other members of the list, I've moved my probe from behind a router that provided IPv6 tunneling and to the pure IPv4 network. However, when reconfiguring the probe, the static IPv6 address I added to it seems to not 'let go'. It now gets an IPv4 address as it should, but it shows as down in the probe list. The configuration page also claims it still has the static IPv6 address configured. I mentioned earlier about fallback to IPv4, but I'd also like to extend the question towards whether there is any functionality that lets the probe try 'last ditch efforts' to connect in cases where its configuration just doesn't work? (As in, give up on static addresses and try DHCP even if it has been assigned a static address) Best regards, Kenneth Aalberg

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