Ping / Packet Internet Gropper

PING stands for Packet Internet Gropper — a basic computer network administration software utility that uses ICMP to send out echo requests, and then uses the reply packets to calculate latency between the sending and the destination hosts.
Ping is most commonly used to verify that a particular IP address exists and can accept requests.

To see how it works, try a Ping Test from our test tools.

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Knowledge base

• PING Threshold
  
• Ping Basic Target Type
  
• PING information
  
• Alert on PING packet loss
  
• PING results
  

Howtos

• Configure Alert Dependencies
  

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