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DX11
5 years ago

PingMulti Datasource customization

Hello, I recently setup some monitoring using the PingMulti datasource after researching online and its working good. I would like to customize aspects like ping intervals between each ping &...
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    Mike_Moniz
    5 years ago

    You can change the frequency of the ping check by modifying the Collect Every field for the PingMulti- DataSource, if you want to change it globally.

    I don't believe you can change the number of pings without switching to scripts. I believe it's hardcoded to send 10 pings (unless it's in some collector config somewhere). You would want to send multiple pings like that though so you get a more precise packet loss datapoint though.

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Kris
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3 years ago

Hi All - Old thread that I am picking up on.

Has anybody attempted to find a custom way to achieve the above? I am looking at using ping multi to send 60 packets per minute and then measure and express availability, latency and loss this through an SLA widget to my client. Currently, 10 pings is just not sensitive enough and will report 10% packet loss when 1 packet it lost.

Using internal web pings does support changing this to 50 packets (which is good enough) but a) requires a license and b) does not have proper support in the SLA widget as it combines all websites in a group into a single SLA and and only reports on availability.


Regards,

Kris