Ping Settings

The following settings are used by Ping service:

Property

Description

Enabled

Enables/disables ping for this host

Packet Data Size, bytes

Size of ICMP packet data (excluding headers)

Number of Echo Requests to send

Number of ping requests to send during every device synchronization (polling) cycle

Number of Echo Requests for Packet Loss Calculation

To calculate Packet Loss Rate, Iotellect Server takes several last ping results specified by this setting, and calculates percentage of failed requests

Number of Failed Echo Requests Activating Offline Status

Number of consecutive failed ping attempts that will change connection status of network host to Offline

Timeout, milliseconds

If no reply is received within this time period, ping attempt is considered as failed

Additional Addresses To Ping

Enables or disables additional addresses ping that are associated with the device account. There are three options provided:

  • None, meaning no additional addresses a pinged
  • By List, meaning the additional addresses to ping are listed in the Additional Addresses List table (shown when this options is selected)
  • By Expression, meaning a list

Additional Addresses List

Provides a list of addresses to ping a single String field table, each row specifying an additional IP-address or a host name to ping

Additional Addresses Expression

Should return a single String field table containing a list of additional IP-address or host names to ping (similarly to the Additional Addresses List table described above).

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