Starting and stopping ping sessions

Start a ping session in the Node Check Manager by selecting Start Session from the Ping menu.

When you do:

• Each node on the node list is pinged in turn.

• If a node does not respond, the following occurs:

  • An alert appears on the screen, if Post Alert is selected.

  • An action you configured, such as sending notification mail to a responsible person, occurs if Perform Action is selected.

  • A description of the failure is always written to a history log, which is available from the View menu.

  • The node list displays an X next to each machine that did not respond to the ping packet.
  
  

• After all nodes on the list are pinged, the Node Check Manager pauses for a specified interval. This interval is shown in the lower right-hand corner of the window. After the interval is up, the Node Check Manager begins pinging the list again.