Overview

The ICMP Plugin is designed to measure the round trip time to some machine and back of a small packet. Basically it does nothing but ping to the remote host and return in the notes of the result the rtt in milliseconds. Since it is based on RAW sockets, only root can perform tests based on this plugin.

Tests are executed in asynchronous manner.

 

Parameters

 

Host

Domain name of the measured machine. Usually derived from the Machine definition in configuration.

 

 

Not yet imlemented parameters

 

PacketSize

The size in bytes of the outgoing packets. The default value is 64.

 

NumPackets

Number of packets to be sent to the remote host. The default value is 3.

 

Wait

Number of milliseconds to wait between packets.

 

SuccessCount

Number of returned packets enough to make the test successful.

 

Trace

In case of timeout, traceroute is recorded in the notes.