Net Ping Plug-in

Introduction

GENEOS UNIVERSAL Net Ping Plug-in monitors network response times by sending ping (ICMP echo request) messages on a regular basis and waiting for the echo reply.

This Plug-in was originally designed to verify that GL secondary servers were kept in sync with their primaries, and is therefore limited to only two host addresses.

View

The UNIVERSAL Net Ping Plug-in produces a single view.

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Table Legend

Name	Description
Host	The name or IP address of the hosts to monitor.
State	The state of the host - "Up", "Unknown", "Unreachable" or "Timed Out".
RoundtripTime	The elapsed time (in ms) between sending the ping message and receiving a reply.

Plug-in Configuration

This plug-in monitors the turnaround time on a "ping" request to another TCP/IP enabled device.

Note: Only the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or resolvable computer's host name can be passed as name variable to Net ping plug-in. This plug-in does not allow IP address to be used in names.

hosts

List of Host, (IP address or name)

Maximum of 2 hosts, minimum of 1 host.

Mandatory: Yes

command

The command to execute 'ping' if not in the probe's path.

Mandatory: No

Default: [Value]

timeout

Elapsed time after which a host will be considered "Timed Out".

                      Unit: Seconds
                    
                      Mandatory: No
                    
                      Default: 10 seconds