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    Ping with Time and Date Stamp

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    by ali.abbass ·

    Hi, I have been looking for a batch or vbscript to monitor ping response in either text/csv/xls file. I need to do ping test for a week continuously to monitor bandwidth behavior.

    Thanks.

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    • #3039675

      Clarifications

      by ali.abbass ·

      In reply to Ping with Time and Date Stamp

      Clarifications

    • #3040202

      Batch

      by chris910 ·

      In reply to Ping with Time and Date Stamp

      It is kind of crude and the file will be very large but it works. It will ping 1000 times and insert a timestamp then ping 1000 more times untill you use CTL-C or close the command window. your information will be in the Text.Txt file.
      ——-
      :START
      Date>Text.txt
      Time>Text.txt
      Ping -n 1000 127.0.0.1 >text.txt
      GOTO START

    • #3039921

      BitMeter

      by 93961 ·

      In reply to Ping with Time and Date Stamp

      You can’t monitor bandwidth by pinging. You can install BitMeter on server (Proxy) if possible. Google BitMeter.

    • #3040497

      Non Batch method

      by chris910 ·

      In reply to Ping with Time and Date Stamp

      This is the tool that I use to monitor bandwidth and availability on my networks.

      It is Free and takes just a few minutes to set up.

      MRTG

      http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

      • #3040381

        MRTG

        by ali.abbass ·

        In reply to Non Batch method

        thanks Chris,

        MRTG is bandwidth usage graph, but i want to see ping graph.

        Regards

    • #3040372

      sounds suspiciously like ping of death

      by cg it ·

      In reply to Ping with Time and Date Stamp

      bandwidth is your total capacity.

      Throughput is actual bandwidth taking in consideration X conditions of the line.

      latency is the X conditions such as a router in the path with lower response, overheads etc.

      speed is simply how fast traffic going from point A to B on available bandwidth.

      your continious ping test will send ping packets to a destination and cause congestion in the line [more overhead] and not only that cause latency because the routers in the path have to process the ping packets which cause higher CPU utilization. If you ping a router enough, you can cause it to use up most of it’s resources processing the ping packets.

      So that does nothing for monitoring you bandwidth. If anything gives you a false reading of available bandwidth, throughput and latency as the ping packets are causing lower throughput and higher latency.

      • #3041542

        Re: sounds suspiciously like ping of death

        by ali.abbass ·

        In reply to sounds suspiciously like ping of death

        Thanks, Yes you are right that is extra over head, but the purpose of this ping test to measure actual time of reaching, and of course this test would be use randomly.

        But i totally agree with your point. 🙂

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