This module allows the monitoring of several hosts by pinging them, that is sending one or more ICMP echo requests and reporting the round trip time for each host.

Notes:

view of module tables

Data is displayed in 2 tables:

The list of hosts including specific options is kept in a file (hosts in the ping module directory, by default) passed as an argument to the module, as follows:

Error handling:

When an error occurs communicating with the nmicmpd daemon, a descriptive error message is generated. Displayed data is no longer updated until the daemon becomes reachable again.

Module options:

Hosts file format:

While comment lines begin with the # character, other lines in the file must either be blank or contain the following items, separated by blanks (tabs or spaces):

Examples:

$ moodss ping
$ moodss ping -f /home/jdoe/hosts.lst
$ moodss ping -r foo.bar.com