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Atlas infrastructure upgrades
by Robert Kisteleki 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Dear Atlas users, During the course of this week, we'll be busy with a major upgrade to virtually all components of the Atlas infrastructure. This affects the UI, the backend database, and the probe controllers as well. Please don't be alarmed when your probe disconnects, or if you cannot reach the web interface. We apologize the inconvenience this may cause. Regards, Robert

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Re: [atlas] Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Roman Mamedov 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:35:42 +1000 "Robert" <robert(a)robert.id.au> wrote: > What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes > offline or online? Wasn't something like this implemented just recently? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert Kisteleki <robert(a)ripe.net> To: ripe-atlas(a)ripe.net Subject: [atlas]Atlas current news Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:46:26 +0200 Sender: ripe-atlas-admin(a)ripe.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 Organization: RIPE NCC Dear Atlas users, We've added two new features to RIPE Atlas recently: 1. Automatic notification about down probes: if your probe has been down for some time, you'll get a one-time automatic notification. This happens after five consecutive days of downtime. 2. Static network configuration: after the testing round with volunteers, we decided to make this feature publicly available, thus released the 4.030 firmware version. You can read more about this feature at https://atlas.ripe.net/doc/static-config Regards, Robert Kisteleki, for the RIPE Atlas Team -- With respect, Roman

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R: Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Simone Nulchis 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hi all, >What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes offline or online? I think it could be a nice feature; in my opinion it should be implemented in "my probe" section of Ripe ATLAS under "Probe's Settings" a specific section that permits to enable such feature and customize the threshold and contact addresses. Simone Nulchis Lucense SCpA

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New Face(s) in the Measurements and Tools Area
by Daniel Karrenberg 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Gentlepeople, I am very happy to announce that we have a new community builder for measuremnts and tools: Vesna Manjolovic. Many of you will know Vesna already as a trainer and through her very enthousiastic work on our IPv6 promotion and IPv6 related measurements. Vesna has been with the RIPE NCC for more than 10 years; it gives me great pleasure to promote her to a position that makes optimal use of her capabilities and ambitions. Vesna's first priorities will be to establish relationships with current and potential sponsors of RIPE Atlas and to help develop a plan for the evoloution of RIPE TTM. RIPE Atlas sponsors and RIPE TTM customers will hear from her soon. The decision to hire internally not only affirms that initiative and effort are rewarded at the RIPE NCC; it also provides the budgetary room to engage another person to help with the community building for measurements: Ann Barcomb will therefore join Vesna in October. >From that time both Vesna and Ann will start to work on additional goals such as building a strong community around RIPEstat. Please join me in welcoming Vesna and help her to achieve her goals, which are also our common goals. Daniel

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Re: [atlas] Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Bert Wijnen 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

On 9/7/11 4:35 AM, Robert wrote: > What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes offline or online? > > I’d like this is at will alert me to any network issue as soon as it happens allowing for that issue to be investigated and rectified. > > This means that the alert could serve a dual purpose: > > ·Increased network uptime > > ·Greater availability of the RIPE Atlas Probe (and thus increased data gathering). > > Anyway, this is something that I’d like to see – email alerts at a minimum. > Email alerts for sure. And pretty quick after the probe is detected to be offline. SMS might be nice, but I certainly would like to have a way to turn it off at times. Bert > Robert >

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Re: [atlas] Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Dennis Kögel 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Am 07.09.2011 um 05:53 schrieb Robert: > What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes offline or online? Doing this monitoring-style is not a job for the NCC, IMHO, as this certainly involves way more work that one might think at first. This is a case for your local monitoring solution, which does that job much better. That being said, it might make sense to e-mail hosts if a probe has been down for a *long* time (something like "one e-mail per week of downtime"), just to catch dead hosts and unnoticed configuration fails. - D.

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Re: [atlas] Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Daniel AJ Sokolov 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

On 07.09.2011 00:53 wrote Robert: > What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe > goes offline or online? I generally like the idea. There should be a threshold though - for example the e-mail could be triggered once the probe is offline for 5 minutes. BR Daniel AJ

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Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Robert 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes offline or online? I'd like this is at will alert me to any network issue as soon as it happens allowing for that issue to be investigated and rectified. This means that the alert could serve a dual purpose: . Increased network uptime . Greater availability of the RIPE Atlas Probe (and thus increased data gathering). Anyway, this is something that I'd like to see - email alerts at a minimum. Robert

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Re: [atlas] Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Richard L. Barnes 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

This might not actually be desirable until the probes stop crashing so often :) It might be more useful to have alarms that trigger on things like sudden or sustained increases in latency or loss, configurable by the probe host. --Richard On Sep 6, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Robert wrote: > What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes offline or online? > > I’d like this is at will alert me to any network issue as soon as it happens allowing for that issue to be investigated and rectified. > > This means that the alert could serve a dual purpose: > > · Increased network uptime > · Greater availability of the RIPE Atlas Probe (and thus increased data gathering). > > Anyway, this is something that I’d like to see – email alerts at a minimum. > > > Robert >

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Email or SMS alert when probe goes offline/online
by Robert 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

What do other participants think about having email alerts when a probe goes offline or online? I'd like this is at will alert me to any network issue as soon as it happens allowing for that issue to be investigated and rectified. This means that the alert could serve a dual purpose: . Increased network uptime . Greater availability of the RIPE Atlas Probe (and thus increased data gathering). Anyway, this is something that I'd like to see - email alerts at a minimum. Robert

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