1. What smokeping-prober Is smokeping-prober is a tool for probing network quality. It probes network quality by sending ICMP requests to target nodes. 2. Deploying smokeping-prober 2.1 Generating the smokeping-prober.yaml Configuration File 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 cat > smokeping_prober.yaml <<EOF --- targets: - hosts: - 1.

If you need to monitor the network status between two hosts, or between a host and an external service, then the Blackbox Exporter mentioned in this article is worth a try. 1. Installing Blackbox 1.1 Deploying on a Host Download the binary package 1 2 3 4 5 wget https://github.