i bought perpetual Multiping. I use it quite often, you can control the polled stuff a little better. its got a trial, but its so cheap its worth just buying it for the data collection
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 2:06 PM Trey Scarborough <t...@3dsc.co> wrote: > If its on a fiber Ethernet system I would buy some older accedian > metronids and put on either end. You can easily find them on ebay for ~$100 > you can set up oam reporting on them. It will give you much more detail > than a ping as you can set it up to set so many packets every x ms and it > will track it and in what direction the error was. They are also great for > running RFC2544 throughput tests. > > other than that I would recommend vaping its a alternative to smokeping > https://github.com/20c/vaping > > > Trey > > > On 6/20/2019 11:42 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: > > I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites. > Lately they have been having big problems on their fiber system. > > What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping > something and make a graph? I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but > it had a freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they > are going to want some money. > > I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure > someone has already done it. Really simple, ping something like Google DNS > every 30 seconds. If it is down, record the time. When it comes back > record the time. > > -- > > Trey Scarborough > VP Engineering > 3DS Communications LLC > p:9729741539 > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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