BSSM_Pinger

BSSM_Pinger

The BSSM_Pinger console command is a child of the BSSM_PingManager process which will ping the device that is passed to it and store the results in the database. This process will ping the device x many times to determine if the device is up, slow or down.

There are many pingers that will ping a device once, if it is not reachable it is down, which is usually good for small local networks, but for WANs a device can be down the first 5 pings, but up the next 2 and then down 3, which usually means that the site connection is slow, but now down. So since it was reachable 2 out of 10 times [try=x], then the device is marked as slow, and not down. In order for a device to be down it will have to fail all the amount set for the tries.

Switches

Switch	Description
/try=[number]	Try Pinging the device x amount of times
/sid=[number]	Device/Server Identifier, used for database inserts
/server=[servername]	The Server Name or IP Address that is going to be pinged
/ip=[IPADDRESS]	The IP Address of the device, used as a backup just incase the name doesn't resolve.

app.config

The app.config file ( BSSM_Pinger.exe.config ) file will also store other settings under the "appSettings"

App Settings

Key	Value	Description
DEBUG	false	Enable Debugging Log
CONSOLE	false	Push Messages to console window ( not useful when running as a service )
LOGFILE	logs\pinger.err.log	Application Error Log, if it breaks, check here
BUGFILE	logs\pinger.debug.log	Application Debug Log, extra messages are sent to this log file to allow you to see what it is doing.
PING_TIMEOUT	1500	The acceptable amount of time before the ping expires and returns as down
REPEAT_EVT_HRS	4	Look back x amount of hours before repeating an alert in the Events section
USETRACE	false	Use the trace data if available to determine where the the connect is dead at.