From feb01fa2d3af74c4e15369cd378c83568ea89d3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dennypage Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:25:27 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add output and alert description --- README.md | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 40356f6..3d7d375 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,9 +1,26 @@ # 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: + + + +dpinger also provides for invocation of a command based upon threshold values +for Average Latency or Percentage of Loss. Arguments to the command are: + + + +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. + +
+ Usage examples: dpinger -t 300s -r 60s 192.168.0.1 >> /tmp/dpinger.out