MTR is a network benchmarking tool (a supercharged combination of ping and traceroute). This salt formula can be used to install it from the package repository or from source, and execute it and store the execution output in a specified directory.

See the full Salt Formulas installation and usage instructions here.

• mtr.install - to install mtrg (from the OS packages - the default, or from source if the pillar mtr:lookup:install_from_source is set). For example:

salt \* state.apply mtr.install pillar='{"mtr":{"lookup": {"install_from_source": True}}}'

You can also set the mtr version via a lookup pillar stressng_source_url; the stress-ng source archives are available here.

• stressng.execute - Run mtr.

The output directory (out_dir) is specified in the pillar. The formula will create a subdirectory under the out_dir folder whose name will correspond to the job-file name. All the stress-ng results for that job file will be stored in this subdirectory. The job file will also be stored in this subdirectory under the filename job.stress.

Look at the pillar.example file for more examples.