Add/Edit Ping Monitor
How to get here
- Go to the Active Monitor Library.
- From the web interface, click . The GO menu appears.
- If the WhatsUp section is not visible, click . The WhatsUp section of the GO menu appears.
- Select . The Active Monitor Library appears.
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- From the main menu bar of the console, select . The Active Monitor Library appears.
- In the Active Monitor Library, do one of the following:
- Click , then select .
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- Select an existing Ping Monitor, then click . The monitor properties page appears.
Configure an Active Monitor to have WhatsUp Gold send an ICMP (ping) command to the device. This is the default monitor added to all devices during discovery.
- . The name of the monitor as it appears in the Active Monitor Library.
- . The description of the monitor as it appears in the Active Monitor Library.
- . The ping will fail if the device does not respond after this number of seconds.
- . The number of times WhatsUp Gold will attempt to send the command before the device is considered down.
- . The length in bytes of each packet sent by the ping command.
- .Select this option to have the monitor appear in the Active Monitor list on the Device Properties dialog. WhatsUp Gold will add the monitor type to the device during a rescan, which is launched using the button on the Device Properties dialog, if the protocol or service is active on the device.