RE: Gathering ping statistics

["DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis,

Just a heads up, by default Ping times out each packet at 1 second.  If your
intent is to detect network congestion problems, you should allow for longer
wait times.  We had one connection incorrectly reported as unavailable when
our ping monitor reported 0 of 5 pings successful.  In reality, all 5 were
received, just very slowly ( > 3000 ms).

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis Robitaille [mailto:denis_robitaille@cascades.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 7:09 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Gathering ping statistics
>
>
> I have done a program that does just that. Here is part of the source
> that is relevent to your question:
>
>              PGM        PARM(&ADR &INTERVAL &FIC &LIB)
>
>
>
>              DCL        &adr      *CHAR    15
>
>              DCL        VAR(&INTERVAL) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(4 0)
>
>              DCL        &fic      *CHAR   10
>
>              DCL        &lib      *CHAR   10
>
>              DCL        &msgid    *CHAR   7
>
>              DCL        &bin      *CHAR   4
>
>              DCL        &bina     *CHAR   1
>
>              DCL        &data     *CHAR   100
>
>
>
>              MONMSG     MSGID(CPF0000) EXEC(GOTO CMDLBL(ERROR))
>
>
>
>              OVRDBF     FILE(DRLOGP) TOFILE(&LIB/&FIC) MBR(*FIRST)
>
>
>
> loop:
>
>              PING       RMTSYS(&ADR)
>
> loop2:
>
>              RCVMSG     MSGDTA(&DATA) MSGID(&MSGID)
>
>              IF         COND((&MSGID *NE 'TCP3210') *AND (&MSGID *NE +
>
>                           '       ')) THEN(GOTO CMDLBL(LOOP2))
>
>
>
>              IF         COND(&MSGID *EQ 'TCP3210') THEN(DO)
>
>              CHGVAR     VAR(&BIN) VALUE(%SST(&DATA 1 4))
>
>              CHGVAR     VAR(&BINA) VALUE(%BIN(&BIN))
>              IF         COND(&BINA *NE '5') THEN(DO)
>              CALL       PGM(DRU0001R) PARM(&ADR &BINA)
>              ENDDO
>              ENDDO
>
>              DLYJOB     DLY(&INTERVAL)
>              GOTO       CMDLBL(LOOP)
>
>              GOTO       CMDLBL(ENDPGM)
>
> >>> oliver.wenzel@cibavision.novartis.com 06/28/02 03:10am >>>
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently running a ping monitor - it pings an AS/400 at a remote
> site
> every 5 minutes. How do I get that ping data
> into a database file for doing statistics.
>
> All our external traffic is going through a WAN line (mail, notes,
> internet,
> EDI). Every now and then the line is very
> busy and I'm getting high pings to the remote AS/400 (EDI).
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oliver