Ping tests

XorMon NG can ping VMs to check their availability
It presents it in the UI and can send alerts.

Support

Following server technologies are supported:
  • IBM Power System LPAR
  • VMware VM
  • Proxmox VM
  • Nutanix VM
  • Kubernetes host
  • RedHat OpenShift host
  • VMware Tanzu host
  • OS agent:
    • AIX
    • Linux
    • IBMi
    • Solaris
    • Hyper-V VM

Usage

  • Alert selection: To use it, you have to at first configure in in Alerting what VMs will be ping and where to send alerts:
    Ping tests setup

    You can even exlude non pingable networks based on network mask.
    Ping tests setup

  • You will find the output under XorMon NG ➡ Dashboard ➡ Health Status ➡ Ping:
    Ping tests dashboard