The PingER Tools

Introduction

There are 3 sets of tools which are collectively part of the PingER suite:

The data monitoring & collection tools, including pinger2.pl (replaces timeping.pl since Jun 2005) and ping_data.pl

The connectivity.pl tool which provides an HTML marked up report of the latest set of pings
The traceroute.pl tool that provides a web CGI script to provide reverse traceroutes and pings.

Only the first set is absolutely necessary unless you want to inspect the data collected locally. It is also very valuable if you can run a reverse traceroute server at your site, for more on reverse traceroute servers see Reverse Traceroute Servers.

Accessing Tools

Tools	URL to Demo the Tool
pinger2.pl	See Ping End-to-end Reporting (version 2) PingER
ping_data.pl	http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/ping_data.pl?
connectivity.pl	http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/connectivity.pl
traceroute.pl	http://www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/nph-traceroute.pl

You can also access a Web form at http://www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pingtable.pl that provides access to the various metrics (RTT, loss, jitter, reachability, MOS etc.) available from the measurements gathered by the archive site from all collection sites.

Installing Tools

Tools	URL for Installation Information
pinger2.pl	http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/wan-mon/Pinger2/
ping_data.pl & traceroute.pl	http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/wan-mon/Pinger2/install2.html
connectivity.pl	http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/tools/install.html

Prerequisites for Installing Tools

See Requirements for Pinger Monitoring Sites

Accessing the Data

For the file format see: http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/connectivity.pl?help=data
For examples of the long term reports see PingER History .

Revised 7 February 2012
URL: http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/tools.html
Comments to iepm-l@slac.stanford.edu