Monitoring Ping Performance

Nodinite empowers you to proactively monitor Ping (ICMP) performance between your Windows Servers and any "pingable" device. This feature helps you detect network issues, receive real-time alerts, and access actionable metrics for continuous improvement.

✅ Instantly monitor connectivity to any device or endpoint
✅ Set custom thresholds for response times and receive timely alerts
✅ Access detailed metrics and historical statistics for informed decision-making
✅ Actionable alerts and Remote Actions within role-based Monitor Viewsto resolve issues fast

This page explains how Nodinite monitors the Ping Category using one or more role-based Monitor Views. You can configure state evaluation based on user-defined thresholds—either global or specific. Remote commands (Actions) are available to help you swiftly address reported problems. All implemented Remote Actions are detailed below.

Example list of monitored 'Pingable' resources in a Monitor View.

Monitoring Features

• Manually manage your Ping configurations. Sharing insights is easy with Monitor Views.
• State Evaluation – Set user-defined thresholds for a given duration to evaluate connectivity health.
• Category-based monitoring – Group monitored Resources by Categories for streamlined management.

State evaluation for Ping-based monitoring

Nodinite displays each monitored Ping configuration as a Resources. For example, if you have 2 Windows Server configurations with 2 and 3 ping configurations, you will have 5 'Ping' resources in Nodinite.

• The Resources name matches the name of the ping configuration.

• The 'Ping' resource belongs to the following Category:

  Category	Description
  Ping	Ensure Ping configurations stay within user-defined monitoring thresholds

  
  List of the Ping-related category as a filter in a Monitor View.

• The Application name is the Display Name from the configuration of the monitored Windows Server:
  
  Example of the Application path for a monitored Ping resource.

Each item (presented in Nodinite as a Resource) is evaluated with a state: OK, Warning, Error, or Unavailable.

You can reconfigure state evaluation at the Resources level using the Expected State feature.

Note

Depending on the user-defined synchronization interval for the Windows Server Monitoring Agent, there may be a delay before Nodinite Web Client/Monitor Views reflect changes. Click Sync All (or use the dropdown for individual agent selection) to force a resynchronization.

Option to force Nodinite to request a resynchronization with the monitoring agent.

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Monitoring Ping

For the Ping category, Nodinite evaluates the monitored state as described below:

	State	Status	Description	Actions
	Unavailable	Service not available	The server can't be reached or evaluated due to network or security issues	Review prerequisites
	Error	Error state raised	* The 'Ping' configuration is invalid

• Performance Error threshold is breached| Response time chart
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  Details|
  ||Warning|Warning state raised|Performance Warning threshold is breached| Response time chart
  Edit
  Details|
  ||OK|Online|The 'Ping' configuration is valid and response times are within user-defined thresholds| Response time chart
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  Details|

Actions for Ping

The following Remote Actions are available for the Ping Category:

• Edit thresholds
• Details
• Metrics

Available remote actions for the Ping category.

Edit thresholds

Manage alert thresholds for any Ping resource by clicking the Action button and selecting Edit thresholds in the 'Control Center' section.

Edit thresholds using the 'Edit' action.

Next, click the option to open the modal.

Example of the 'Edit thresholds' modal.

Details

View details for any Ping resource by clicking the Action button and selecting Details in the 'Control Center' section.

Open details modal using the 'Details' action.

Next, click the option to open the modal.

Example of the 'Details' modal.

Metrics chart: Metrics

View statistics for any Ping resource by clicking the Action button and selecting Response time chart in the 'Control Center' section.

Show Ping performance statistics using the 'Response time chart' action.

Next, click the option to open the modal.

Example of statistics for Ping performance over time.

This modal is designed to be used as a Widget in the Dashboard.

Ping statistics example as a Widget on the Dashboard.

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Configuration

Use Remote Configuration to manage Ping configuration.

Ping tab

Click the Ping tab to manage Ping-related monitoring options.

Example of the 'Ping' tab.

• Enable Ping Monitoring for this configuration – When checked, the localhost performs the ping operation against sunet.se.

Ping General Tab

Example of the 'Ping' tab.

• Name – The display name for this Ping configuration, also becomes the Resource name in Monitor Views
• Description – User-friendly short description for this configuration.
• Target (Host name or IP-address) – The target Host Name or IP-address of the device to ping from 'localhost'

Ping Thresholds Tab

Example of the 'Ping thresholds' tab.

• Response time Warning threshold (ms) – If the response time exceeds this threshold for more than 60 seconds (Duration), a Warning is raised.
• Response time Error threshold (ms) – If the response time exceeds this threshold for more than 60 seconds (Duration), an Error is raised.
• Duration (s) – Alert when the ping response time consistently breaches this duration (3-3600 seconds).

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Next Step

Add or manage Monitor View

Related Topics

Windows Server Monitoring Agent
Resources
Monitoring
Monitor Views