host - ping a host
Check a host is pingable.
Tip
This monitor relies on executing the ping
command provided by your OS. It has known issues on non-English locales on Windows. You should use the ping monitor instead. The only reason to use this one is that it does not require SimpleMonitor to run as root.
- host
- Type:
string
- Required:
true
the hostname/IP to ping
- ping_regexp
- Type:
regexp
- Required:
false
- Default:
automatic
the regexp which matches a successful ping. You may need to set this to use this monitor in a non-English locale.
- time_regexp
- Type:
regexp
- Required:
false
- Default:
automatic
the regexp which matches the ping time in the output. Must set a match group named
ms
. You may need to set this as above.
- count
- Type:
int
- Required:
false
- Default:
1
the number of pings to send