Need a complex ping monitor

[kylebrogers]

I need to find software that will let me ping a host and collect detailed stats on what happened over a 24-48 hour period.  Specifically I need it to be able to tell me the following:

1.  Were any packets lost and when (the when is a must)

2.  Lets me set a timeout for the pings and logs when pings pass a certain round trip time. 

3.  Lets me specify the payload size for the ping packet (this is optional)

4.  Must be free or nearly free- this is for a one-time issue so I don't want to pay for a product unless it's really cheap. 

5.  Must be a Windows app

I think the carrier is having intermittent delay issues and I need something that can tell me:

Reporting threshold is 500ms

At 13:25:42, a ping took 2475ms

At 15:27:41, a ping was lost (exceeded maximum ping threshold)

At 16:13:23, a ping took 3852ms

Thanks,

Kyle

[Jon Marshall]

Kyle

Have you thought of using a scripting language ?

Windows ping has all the options you need ie. buffer size, a timeout etc.  So you could script a loop that continues forever and run "ping -n 1 -l -w timeout"   where -n 1 means you send a single ping, and collect the response time.

This loop simply runs this command forever (until you want to stop it) and then if any pings exceed the threshold or are lost the script simply prints it out with the date.

This would be failry trivial in any scripting language.

Jon

[smitesh kharecha]

Hi Jon,

+5 for the idea and message out to community that before searching for complex solution, check the day to day thing we daily use.

[milan.kulik]

Hi,

some poeople like an application called PingPlotter (www.pingplotter.com).

I don't use it too much personally, but AFAIK, it should provide all you request.

HTH,

Milan

[johnlloyd_13]

hi,

we used to have smokeping before converting all monitoring to solarwinds. try to check it out:

http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/