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how to do speedtest of internet using solarwinds NPM ?

mulala

hey guys

kindly assist on how i can do speedtest using NPM

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mat12

mulala I think SAM or NTA will help you more on this part. You may check this out: Speedtest.net

KMSigma.SWI

I used to do this with SAM using a PowerShell script to download a known file in the internet.

Pseudocode:

Download internet file to %temp% while calculating the time taken in seconds.
Get file size ($file.length)
Divide time taken by file size.
Return results to SolarWinds Orion

adatole

Building on this idea, but removing the need for SAM through the power of Linux and SNMP OID wizardry:

On a spare Linux machine (can be a VM or whatever) create a script (shell, perl, whatever) that does the following:

Download internet file to /tmp while calculating the time taken in seconds.
Get file size
Divide time taken by file size.
Save size to /var/log/speedtest.log (over-write the file, do not append)

Create another script called "readspeed.sh" that does nothing except read "speedtest.log" and echos the value there.

Edit snmpd.conf with the following info:

exec .9.9.9.9.9.9 get_speed /<scripthome>/read_speed.sh

Finally, create a Universal Device Poller that reads 9.9.9.9.9.9 from the node, which SHOULD collect the speed value and let you chart, report, and alert on it.

mat12

This is really cool adatole Thanks for sharing!

Hoping we can get this by default in the future versions of SAM templates for those non-technical admins as well (Solarwinds - unexpected simplicity).