Select ADMINISTRATION > Agent Configuration > Application Ping.
Click the Create new button.
Specify a name for your new application ping.
In the definition field, specify the IP address or hostname of the server that you want to your application ping to connect to.
Examples:
URL=192.168.1.10
- or-
URL=www.google.comIn addition to the required IP address/hostname, you can specify two optional parameters:
Iterations to specify if the application ping should be carried out several times after each other. This can be useful in order to gain a sufficiently large data set if your network groups contain very few PerformanceGuard agents.
Delay specifying the required amount of seconds between the iterations.
- In the Interval field, specify the number of seconds that should pass before the PerformanceGuard frontend server gives the task of carrying out the application ping to the next PerformanceGuard agent that connects to the frontend server.
If you have many agents in your network groups, agents will connect to the frontend server more or less all the time, and every time the required number of seconds has passed, an agent from each network group will be given the task of carrying out the application ping. In that case, the interval will quite closely mirror the actual number of seconds that passes between each time the application ping is carried out from each network group. However, if you have few agents in a network group, the frontend server won't get so many agent connections from that network group, and in that case, the frontend server may have to wait longer than the interval you have specified before it can give the application ping task to the next agent that connects.
From the Type list, select Http request, Ping or Traceroute.
Click the Create button.
Your new application ping will be added to your list of existing application pings.
Now you must apply your application ping to one or more agent configuration groups. See the following.