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Smokeping User documentation

Contents
User documentation
Principles
Access and architecture
Logical organisation of the menus
Use cases
International service from a country

User documentation
Principles

Smokeping is a tool to measure latency (time for a destination to answer to the polling point, using different
Protocols, following the packets full travel, forth and back, oen called Round-Trip Time (RTT) or Round-Trip
Delay (RTD)).

Primarly, this latency is measured using icmp, and by default this is done in Smokeping sending 20 echo
request icmp paquets, and mesuring the loss and median time to get the corresponding echo reply icmp
paquets.
Graphs show a colored line showing the median answer time for all received packets, its color
indacting an eventual loss as described at the bottom of each graph (on this example, green is
no loss, light blue shows 1 packet lost on 20)
The grey stacked lines show the repartition of each measure (known as jitter') in a poll (the
lighter the cloud is, the less packets are in this derive, the darkest the most packets are).

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Some tests use a more complex protocol, such as dns (udp on port 53), or different parameters.

Access and architecture

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Smokeping is accessible using the URL hps://smokeping.canalbox.net/ in a browser, without

authentication (it is a read only interface, no sensible data on it anyway, and only accessible from our
networks).

e global Smokeping architecture consists of a central instance, in the TH2 datacenter (Paris, France),
and several pollers spread in the country we have system architecture in (Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo,
Gabon, Congo, and Rwanda). e pollers download their configuration from Paris, then send back the
results regularly, all using the web interface.

On this map, you can see the central instance, shown as a web server, and local polling instances shown
as common servers.

Logical organisation of the menus

Each first level in the menu is showing the origin of the graphs
that will be shown when deployed (well, except the very first
entry charts), so it can be, in april 2021 :

France (th2 site)

Ivory Coast (gbo site)
Burkina Faso (onu site)
Togo (cbx site)
Gabon (lbs site)
Congo (bol site)
Rwanda (rem site)
en, on the second level of the menus, you will have entries
either global or specific to a poller, which is determined by the
configuration (which you cannot figure only with the interface,
but the entries Infra (France), and Reseau GVA are global, others
are specific).

Finally, on the last level of menus, you have entries.

Close-up of the menu

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Use cases

International service from a country

For instance, let's put you want to see how is the latency to Google from Congo. You will deploy
Congo in the menu, then International, and at last www.google.com.

Google latency from Congo use-case

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