Agreed, I think you will find out more by sending a burst of 10 pings every 1-5 minutes. Now you can calculate and plot packet loss as well as min/avg/max latency. One lonely ping doesn’t tell you much. We do it with PRTG but I suspect most network monitor tools can do this.
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 6:25 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ping monitoring? We use a cacti plugin called "Advanced Ping". It will perform a group of pings every polling period. We don't use it on every client, but use it on ones that we know have occasional latency and/or packet loss issues. We generally have it do a barrage of 10 pings every polling period (once every 5 minutes, or once every 1 minute depending on the cacti configuration). It records min/max/average latency, and also % packet loss. Puts the info into a graph. Looks like this: bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 1/19/2017 7:10 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote: I think a better question is: What are you trying to accomplish? On Jan 18, 2017 8:36 PM, "Jon Langeler" <jon-ispli...@michwave.net <mailto:jon-ispli...@michwave.net> > wrote: I can't get smokeping to send a ping say every second and only one each time. Any alternatives or suggestions? Jon Langeler Michwave Technologies, Inc.
