SmokePing 3.0 Project - swinog

21 Nov 2016

Good Morning 

At SwiNOG-30, I was approached by several people, praising the merits of SmokePing and
also wondering when version 3 will come out. I was happy for the praise, but did not have
any concrete announcements for a new version, beyond bugfixes. 

So that got me thinking ... would there be sufficient support among SwiNOG members to
raise the money for writing Smokeping version 3?

Here is my feature shortlist: 

 * non-blocking polling engine - by using an event loop at the heart of the polling
engine, smokeping becomes much more scaleable, as it can wait for many probes to return
information in parallel without forking, thus reducing the memory impact.

 * interactive charts as shown in the demo at SwiNOG without

 * a responsive UI working with mobile devices

 * the ability to pull in target information from a database

My current estimate creating this rewrite of is around 50k CHF.

If you are willing to chip in, and if you have requirements of your own, please be in
touch.

cheers
tobi

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Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
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