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# dpinger
dpinger is a daemon for continous monitoring of latency and loss on a network connection. It is
dpinger is a daemon for continuous monitoring of latency and loss on a network connection. It is
intended for use by firewalls to monitor link health, as well as for providing information to
various monitoring systems such as Cacti, Nagios, Zabbix, etc.
The output of dpinger can either be file or socket based, and consists of three numbers:
<Average Latency in μs> <Standard Deviation in μs> <Percentage of Loss>
dpinger also provides for invocation of a command based upon threshold values
for Average Latency or Percentage of Loss. Arguments to the command are:
<Target IP> <Alarm on/off> <Average Latency> <Standard Deviation> <Percentage of Loss>
In addition to command invocation, dpinger can also log alerts via syslog.
If several instances of dpinger are being used to monitor different targets, or the same target
with different source addresses, etc., an Identifier can be added to the output to identify
which instance of dpinger is the source. This is particularly useful with syslog.
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Usage examples:
dpinger -t 300s -r 60s 192.168.0.1 >> /tmp/dpinger.out