Ping Monitoring

There are 101 ways to monitor your network but few are as integral to the longevity of your network as ping monitoring tools. The overall breakdown of statistical data is fairly sparse however, marking responsive hosts as OK, with a basic date, time and ping shown next to it. More than sufficient in many cases, but a rather basic approach when compared to the other options available.

Essentially, a Twinge flood is the same as a Ping flood and the solutions to protect a network from it are the same as for the main category of DDoS attack via ICMP: turn off ICMP, install a web application firewall or a stateful firewall, or install an intrusion detection system.

A DNS resolution function shows the hostname for a requested IP address if it can find it. The absence of a hostname for a record should raise alarms if that IP address was contactable because either your DNS records are out of date or you have an intruder on the network.

Administrators fill out these templates with the appropriate device or service information, name them for the service in question, and then add them to the monitor's database The fewer clicks we make and fields we need to fill out, the better as far as our testing results.

While this tends to be a less important issue in agent-based systems, since you're going to have to install software on each monitoring target synthetic monitoring tools anyway; for agentless systems, it needs to be as painless as possible because it's a big part of the overall installation process.

Pinging helps in assessing the state of a network connection and various elements connected to it. By pinging a network, administrators can extract crucial information such as the number of lost data packets, latency rate of network requests, and the status of available devices.

The response to an echo request is immediate and so if the program that sends the request takes a timestamp the moment that the echo request is sent, and another the moment the response arrives, the system can calculate how long a packet takes to get to the target and back.