Host Availability

This agent will send heartbeat messages (ping requests) to its host, monitoring the presence of the host on the network and the latency of its connection.

Local/Remote Modes

Because of the nature of its work, the agent only supports local mode.

Supported Versions

The agent can monitor availability of any TCP/IP enabled host, regardless of the architecture or operating system.

Configuration

The following parameters are available for configuration:

  • Ping timeout: The maximum number of milliseconds to wait on a ping heartbeat before declaring it a miss
  • Packet size: The number of bytes in the ICMP packet

Contents

The agent will populate the following values:

  • Response time: Ping response time in milliseconds
  • Heartbeat misses: The number of times the heartbeat timed out