The PingER Tools

Introduction

There are 3 sets of tools which are collectively part of the PingEM suite:

The data monitoring & collection tools, including pinger.pl (replaces timeping.pl since Jun 2005) and ping_data.pl

The connectivity.pl tool which provides an HTML marked up report of the latest set of pings
The ping_data_plot.pl tool which provides a form to select site(s) and time frame for which to plot the ping packet loss and response time.

Only the first set is absolutely necessary unless you want to inspect the data collected locally. It is also very valuable if you can run a reverse traceroute server at your site, for more on reverse traceroute servers see Reverse Traceroute Servers.

Accessing Tools

Tools	URL to Demo the Tool
pinger.pl	See http://www.rnoc.gatech.edu/pinger2/
ping_data.pl	http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/tools/install2.html
connectivity.pl	http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/connectivity.pl
ping_data_plot.pl	http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/ping_data_plot.pl

You can also access a Web form at http://pinger.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/graph_pings.pl that provides plots of loss and response time for data gathered by the archive site from all collection sites.

Installing Tools

Tools	URL for Installation Information
pinger.pl & ping_data.pl	http://www.rnoc.gatech.edu/pinger2/
connectivity.pl	http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/tools/install.html
ping_data_plot.pl	http://icfamon.dl.ac.uk/ppncg/src/install.html

Prerequisites for Installing Tools

See Requirements for Pinger Monitoring Sites

Accessing the Data

For the file format see: http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/connectivity.pl?help=data
To get the data from HEPNRC (the archive site) use: http://pinger.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl
For examples of the long term reports see PingER History .

Revised 6 August 2006
URL: http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/tools.html
Comments to iepm-l@slac.stanford.edu