cfping

Test the performance and availability of the Rackspace cloudfiles or Openstack swift service.

Example

$ cfping
Pinging storage (sending request every 1 seconds with 81.0 bytes ):
    seq. #       auth    connect  container      write       read     delete      total
         1      0.100      0.061      0.041      0.286      0.009      0.034      0.532
         2      0.068      0.059      0.031      0.168      0.010      0.014      0.351
         3      0.067      0.058      0.027      0.085      0.009      0.013      0.260
         4      0.066      0.059      0.012      0.090      0.009      0.014      0.251
         5      0.066      0.061      0.044      0.052      0.010      0.014      0.247
^C
5 requests

Usage

usage: cfping [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-k KEY] [-a AUTHURL] [-t TENANT ]
        [-c CONTAINER] [-s] [-i PING_INTERVAL] [-r PING_REPETITIONS]
    [-t TEST_DATA_SIZE] [-m] [-d]
        [--graphite-root-metric-path GRAPHITE_ROOT_METRIC_PATH]
        [--carbon-server-ip CARBON_SERVER_IP]
        [--carbon-port CARBON_PORT]

        Test the performance and availability of the Rackspace cloudfiles or Openstack swift service.

        optional arguments:
        -h, --help            show this help message and exit
        -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                  Storage service username (default: OS_USERNAME)
        -t TENANTNAME, --tenantname TENANTNAME
                    Storage service username (default: OS_TENANT_NAME)	
        -k KEY, --key KEY     Storage service API key (default: OS_PASSWORD)
        -a AUTHURL, --authurl AUTHURL
                  Storage service auth URL (default:
                  https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0)
        -V AUTH_VERSION, --auth_version AUTH_VERSION
                    Storage service auth version (default: 2 if OS_AUTH_VERSION absent
        -c CONTAINER, --container CONTAINER
                  Use the specified container (default: use the first
                  container [index 0])
        -s, --service-net     Use the Rackspace service network (default: use public
                  network)
        -i PING_INTERVAL, --interval PING_INTERVAL
                  Seconds to wait between ping requests (default: 60
                  seconds)
        -r PING_REPETITIONS, --repetitions PING_REPETITIONS
                  Number of repetitions (default: infinite) 
        -T TEST_DATA_SIZE, --test-data-size TEST_DATA_SIZE
                  Test data size in Bytes (default: 81 Bytes)
        -m, --machinereadable
                  Output results with no headers
        -d, --data            Output statistics for the tests, min, max, and average
                  (mean)
        --graphite-root-metric-path GRAPHITE_ROOT_METRIC_PATH
                  The root of the graphite metric path (default:
                  GRAPHITE_ROOT cfping.)
        --carbon-server-ip CARBON_SERVER_IP
                  IPv4 address of the carbon server (default:
                  CARBON_IP)
        --carbon-port CARBON_PORT
                  Carbon server port (default: CARBON_PORT 2003)

Environment

cfping accepts the following environment variables:

• OS_USERNAME, the account username. The -u option, if provided, takes precedence.
• OS_PASSWORD, the account key. The -k option, if provided, takes precedence.
• OS_AUTH_URL, the authentication endpoint. The -a option, if provided, takes precedence.
• OS_AUTH_VERSION, the authentication version. Defaults to 2
• CARBON_PORT, the port that graphite carbon is listening on.
• CARBON_SERVER_IP, the IPv4 address of the server.
• GRAPHITE_ROOT, the root of the metric path, cfping.metrics.read

Installation

cfping is a Python program and can be installed with pip (or easy_install):

$ pip install cfping

Contributing

cfping is open-source software and your contributions are welcome.

Open an issue on GitHub to report a bug or suggest an enhancement, or better yet, fork the repo and send a pull request.