Any chance for Ping as a server test option?

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Any chance for Ping as a server test option?

Forum: Open Discussion

Creator: Nobody/Anonymous

Created: 2001-12-07

Updated: 2001-12-07

Nobody/Anonymous - 2001-12-07

Subject says it all. Some of the systems I am monitoring with autostatus are only available to the monitoring app by ping.

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- Some Guy - 2001-12-07
  
  NR is primarily designed to monitor TCP-based hosts, so I've never really had plans to implement ICMP requests. I'm assuming from your post that the servers in question have absolutely *all* TCP requests blocked off by firewall or server configuration, so I guess I'm also curious as to the kind of server you're querying.
  
  I will eventually be implementing UDP support into NR, (just as soon as the bugs are worked out of PHP to support it - see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=14261\), but I have no plans of implemeting ICMP requests.
  
  If ping is absolutely the only way to check your servers, and autostatus is working for you, I suggest you keep using it.
  
  Regards,
  Brad Fears
  
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