isp-performance: smokeping with github-pages

Shell-script solution which combines the great smokeping-tool with github-pages: runs on a raspberry pi and pushes the results of the smokeping-measurement to a github-repository, so that the charts with the performance of your internet service provider are available for everybody.

Preliminary

Setup your smokeping-server.

The blog.kugelfish.com or the how-to on the spiceworks community page are a good starting point. Find the configuration files in /etc/smokeping/config.d/ (see my my configuration in the folder smokeping.config.d in this repository)

Start smokeping with /etc/init.d/smokeping start

Steps for setting up the Gitup push script

Here are the steps to setup the script on your own raspberry pi:

• create a github-project (or clone this project)

• create a public-private key without password-protection*

• put the public key to your github settings (rtfm)

• clone your github repository on your raspberry pi

• adapt the git.upload.sh script with your local paths

• set the execution-bit for the user running the script (chmod u+x git.upload.sh)

• create a crontab entry with crontab -e

   05 */2 * * * /home/pi/smokeping/bin/git.upload.sh >> /home/pi/smokeping/logs/git.upload.log 2>&1
  

  (updates the graphics every 2nd hour)

Note

• You can test your script be manually calling the github.upload.sh
• If you want to use the configuration files from this repository, change the paths in the /etc/smokeping/config.

Sites

• Unitymedia - Frankfurt Ostend
• Telekom - Frankfurt Nordend

*): I don't know how to include a ssh-agent into the crontab-script, so that a password is not required when accessing the private key.