Blog Entry of 2006-Aug-14 in IPCheck
Using Multiple-Host-PINGs to monitor the performance of a WAN connection
The basic idea of this new custom sensor for IPCheck Server Monitor is that in many cases sending PINGs over a WAN connection to just one device is not a very reliable means of testing the connection. Every once and a while you will see dropped packets due to network overload, server trouble or whatever. On WAN connections you never know what happens between you and the server. Thus when monitoring just one distant system a number of lost PINGs don't tell you too much about the performance of the connection inbetween.
In a new knowledgebase article we introduce a new custom sensor that sends PINGs to any number of servers at a time and counts the successful ones. Based on the number of successful replies the user can then trigger notifications.
Go to the knowledge base article