Configuring ping

Enter the alias name, hostname or IP address of the network device you want to ping.

You must configure the device IP address if the alias name cannot get resolved to an IP address.

(Optional) Enter the IP address of the network device you want to ping.

You can leave this field blank if you have provided the actual hostname or IP address as the alias name.

Enter the IP address of the network device to monitor.

Protocol

If you have entered the device name in the Device name/IP field, select one of the following protocols:

• IPv4

• IPv6

  If you have selected the IPv4 protocol, then the device is pinged using the IPv4 address. If you have selected the IPv6 protocol, then the device is pinged using the IPv6 address.

Dynamic IP

Enable this option to configure the device with the dynamic IP address. If the IP address is dynamic, the device communicates with the DNS server during each poll interval to resolve the IP address.

Disable this option to configure the device with static the IP address. If the IP address is static, the device communicates with the DNS server only once to resolve the IP address.

By default, this option is disabled.

Poll interval (sec)

Select the poll interval time in seconds to ping the device. The default value is 300 seconds. The minimum value you can select is 10 seconds. The maximum value you can select is 3600 seconds.

Transmit packet size (bytes)

Select the transmit packet size in bytes.The default value is 32 bytes. The minimum bytes you can transmit is 32 bytes. The maximum bytes you can transmit is 65500 bytes.

Retries count

Select the number of echo request messages to send. The default value is 4. The minimum value you can select is 1 and the maximum value you can select is 10.

Timeout (ms)

Enter the timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply. The default value is 1000 milliseconds. The minimum value you can select is 1 millisecond and the maximum value you can select is 30000 milliseconds.

Enter the IP address range in the following format: IPAddress-Range.

For example, if you enter the IP address range as 10.64.109.1-10, all IP addresses in the range between 10.64.109.1 to 10.64.109.10 are configured.

(Optional) Enter the category for all IP addresses in the range. If you will leave this field blank, the group name is the IP address range.

(Optional) Enter comma-separated IP addresses to be excluded from the range.

For example, if you enter the IP address range is 10.64.109.1-10 and you want to exclude IPaddresses:10.64.109.6, 10.64.109.7, and 10.64.109.8, use one of the following options:

• 10.64.109.6,10.64.109.7,10.64.109.8
• 6,7,8
• 6-8
• 10.64.109.6-10.64.109.8

Select the poll interval time in seconds to ping the device. The default value is 300 seconds. The minimum value you can select is 10 seconds. The maximum value you can select is 3600 seconds.

Select the transmit packet size in bytes. The default value is 32 bytes. The minimum bytes you can transmit is 32 bytes. The maximum bytes you can transmit is 65500 bytes.

Select the number of echo request messages to send. The default value is 4. The minimum value you can select is 1 and the maximum value you can select is 10.

Enter the timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply. The default value is 1000 milliseconds. The minimum value you can select is 1 millisecond. The maximum value you can select is 30000 milliseconds.

Import devices from file

Enable this option to configure devices to be pinged automatically from files. The devices to be pinged automatically place the files at %PATROL_HOME%\PPM\Conf\ImportDevices\ directory. You can have multiple files for configuring devices and should specify an appropriate name to the files. The devices are grouped under these file names. By default, this option is disabled. For more information, see Importing devices from file.

Specify the location to load the configured files based configuration. If it is not specified then by default it considers %PATROL_HOME%\PPM\Conf\ImportDevices.

Select any of the following protocol to ping the configured devices:

• IPv4
• IPv6

Enable this option to configure the device with the dynamic IP address. If the IP address is dynamic, the device communicates with the DNS server during each poll interval to resolve the IP address.

Disable this option to configure the device with static the IP address. If the IP address is static, the device communicates with the DNS server only once to resolve the IP address.

By default, this option is disabled.

Select the transmit packet size in bytes. The default value is 32 bytes. The minimum bytes you can transmit is 32 bytes. The maximum bytes you can transmit is 65500 bytes.

Select the number of echo request messages to send. The default value is 4. The minimum value you can select is 1 and the maximum value you can select is 10.

Enter the timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply. The default value is 1000 milliseconds. The minimum value you can select is 1 millisecond. The maximum value you can select is 30000 milliseconds.

Root display name

Enter a display name for the monitor type to display a meaningful location name for the target agent. The target agent pings the configured destination devices. The default root display name is Network Devices.

Device Mapping

Enable logging

Select this option to enable logging. The log files are created at %PATROL_HOME%\PPM\logs. By default, this option is disabled.