Hi all,

I was looking for a Reverse Ping script so that it would go into alarm when a destination is reachable.
Is there any of you already using such a script? please let me know!

thanks in advance,

Timo

It would be nice if ALL monitors had a checkbox on them to "reverse" the logic. So failed = success. We run into this all the time. Particularly on monitoring services that should NOT be running.

From what i see there is no way to create a traditional Ping(ICMP) script as INM LUA doesn't support communication on that low of a level. As Techniques such as UDP ping and SYN scanning use the same layer as ICMP they are out of the question as well. As far as i know other than ICMP, there isn't a protocol that every device will respond to.

You could check for various Application level service such as RPC, SSH, Etc. However it would be more of an indication rather than concrete proof. Widows hosts will usually respond to RPC however *nix and network devices surely will not.

Hope that helps a little,

/jAzz

well the reason i need it is because we are waiting for a domain to get up, and if i could use a reverse ping script the monitor would only go RED when the domain is up. otherwise the 'Main status' will be red all the time...

I think the reverse option would be a nice addition to the wishlist forum... (If it isn't allready posted there )