Install SmokePing inside LXD OS-container.

• Create debian container:

  lxc launch images:debian/stretch/amd64 smokeping

• Configure container to start at boot:

  lxc config set smokeping boot.autostart true

• Enter container:

  lxc exec smokeping bash

• Install required packages:

  apt update
  apt install curl rrdtool perl librrds-perl build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev fping

• Download latest version:

  curl -OL https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/smokeping-2.7.3.tar.gz

• Extract:

  tar zxvf smokeping-2.7.3.tar.gz

• Configure:

  cd smokeping-2.7.3
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/smokeping

• Compile and install:

  make install

• Install required packages:

  apt install lighttpd

• Download fping:

  curl -OL http://www.fping.org/dist/fping-4.1.tar.gz

• Extract:

  tar zxvf fping-4.1.tar.gz

• Compile:

  cd fping-4.1
  ./configure
  make -j4
  make install

• Configure lighttpd:

  cd /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled
  ln -s ../conf-available/10-fastcgi.conf .
  ln -s ../conf-available/10-accesslog.conf .
  mv /opt/smokeping/htdocs/smokeping.fcgi.dist /opt/smokeping/htdocs/smokeping.fcgi

• Edit /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

  server.modules = (
  #        "mod_access",
          "mod_alias",
  #        "mod_compress",
  #        "mod_redirect",
  )
  
  server.document-root        = "/opt/smokeping/htdocs"
  server.errorlog             = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
  server.pid-file             = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
  server.username             = "www-data"
  server.groupname            = "www-data"
  server.port                 = 80
  
  index-file.names            = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.lighttpd.html" , "smokeping.fcgi" )
  #url.access-deny             = ( "~", ".inc" )
  static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
  
  fastcgi.server = (
          ".fcgi" =>
          ((
                  "bin-path" => "/opt/smokeping/htdocs/smokeping.fcgi",
                  "host" => "127.0.0.1",
                  "port" => 8001,
          )),
  )
  
  alias.url = ( "/cache/" => "/opt/smokeping/cache/" )
  alias.url += ( "/data/" => "/opt/smokeping/data/" )
  
  # default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
  include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
  include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
  include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"
  

• Create directories:

  mkdir /opt/smokeping/{cache,data,var}

• Modify rights:

  chown -R www-data. /opt/smokeping

• Enable and start lighttpd:

  systemctl start lighttpd
  systemctl enable lighttpd

• Add systemd service in: /etc/systemd/system/smokeping.service:

  [Unit]
  Description=Latency Logging and Graphing System
  After=syslog.target network.target
  
  [Service]
  ExecStart=/opt/smokeping/bin/smokeping --config=/opt/smokeping/etc/config 
  ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
  StandardError=syslog
  Type=forking
  PIDFile=/opt/smokeping/var/smokeping.pid
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target

  systemctl enable smokeping
  systemctl start smokeping

• Error IO-Tty-1.12 → FAIL Timed out (> 60s). Add --verbose to cpanm command. Edit ./smokeping-2.7.3/thirdparty/Makefile:

  touch: CPAN/touch ../config.status ../PERL_MODULES 
          $(AM_V_GEN)cat ../PERL_MODULES  | grep -v '#' | PERL_CPANM_HOME=$(THIRDPARTY_DIR) xargs $(PERL) $(THIRDPARTY_DIR)/bin/cpanm --verbose -q --notest --local-lib-contained $(THIRDPARTY_DIR)  --mirror file://$(THIRDPARTY_DIR)/CPAN --mirror-only 
          $(AM_V_GEN)touch touch