Monitor Settings

Steelsonic Ping Monitor uses the parameters defined in the settings page while performing the ICMP request for the hosts being monitored. The program ships with the default settings which can be modified to suit your needs.




Explanation of the parameters which can be configured is as below...

• Ping Interval Seconds : Defines the time gap between each echo request to the host being monitored.
  
• Ping Timeout :  Refers to the duration, measured in milliseconds, that the ping command will wait to receive a reply from a remote host.
• Packet Size : This is the size of the packet that is sent as an payload with every ICMP echo request
• Time to Live : Time To Live (TTL) is the lifespan of a packet being sent across the network, measured in hops. Each time the packet passes through a host on its way to the destination, the TTL decreases by one. If the TTL drops to zero before the packet gets to where it's going, the packet is thrown away, and an error message is sent back. The TTL is there to prevent a packet that can't be delivered from endlessly looping around the internet.
  
• Delivery Failure : This is the count of the number of echo requests which could fail before a host is considered "Down". In standard settings, if a host fails to reply to our ping echo request for 3 times then we consider such host as "Down".

These settings are global in nature and will apply to all the hosts being monitored in ICMP ping mode.

The option "Hearbeat Monitor Interval" defines the time delay between each subsequent attempts to connect to the specific ports or keywords being monitored.