topic Re: Send ping? in Dashboards & Visualizations

Send ping?

Rhuen — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:18:19 GMT

Hy,

how can i create a Dashboard with a Ping to a target?
I will send a ping to ~5 ip-adresses every 60 seconds.

Can i configure splunk for this? Or need an app?

thx.

Re: Send ping?

Drainy — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:21:17 GMT

You could just write a scripted input that runs every 60 seconds and Splunk the output, then you just build your dashboard based on the expected ping detail.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/Developer/ScriptSetup

Re: Send ping?

Rhuen — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:35:36 GMT

Have you or anyone a example for me?
I was try with "Pinger" it works, but when i ping a IP-Adress i see only "access denied" but a normal ping is working. I dont know why.

Re: Send ping?

Drainy — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:05:11 GMT

Well, a quick google found this; http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/simple-linux-and-unix-system-monitoring-with-ping-command-and-scripts.html You could modify this to be your scripted input. You really need to learn and understand how this all works otherwise you can't hope to support it. Also it might be worth looking into the "access denied" error

Re: Send ping?

ndoshi — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:40:29 GMT

If you've indexed your data already and it contains URLs, IPs, or DNS names that you want to ping, you can use this ping status command add-on: http://apps.splunk.com/app/507/

Usage is in the README.txt. Then, have your dashboard refresh every 5 seconds to get the latest ping status in realtime for these machines or devices.

Re: Send ping?

saurabh_tek — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:31:55 GMT

@ndoshi how can we check the hosts mentioned in lookup file
pingstatus command works on extracted field - host but when i use..

then it does not show anything as in verbose results there is nothing since hosts are in lookup file not indexed and hence no extracted 'host' field

please suggest

Re: Send ping?

saurabh_tek — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 07:39:18 GMT

@ppablo @Drainy @Rhuen ·can u suggest something on this plz

Re: Send ping?

manjuase — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 06:19:41 GMT

Hi saurabh_tek,

@saurabh_tek
Did u find the solution for this ?

i am also having all host details in lookup file only ...when i do ping status it returns nothing...

Your reply will helpful

Thanks in advance