topic Re: Any alternative than PING command ? in Operating System - HP-UX

Any alternative than PING command ?

sdip — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:47:51 GMT

Hi,

We have a script which does the check server availability via "ping" command before it execute command remotely. We have noticed ping generally takes around 11 seconds to return the status in case that server is down.

We are trying to reduce that 11seconds to minimum delay. Is there any alternative way to check the server status other than ping command which will return the status more faster way.

Re: Any alternative than PING command ?

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:26:28 GMT

Have a look at this:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1063876

The attached ping.pl script can use a -t timeout parameter to set the desired timeout to something other than the default 3 seconds. There is also another posible Perl solution that you might want to look at.

Invoke as ping.pl -u for full usage.

Re: Any alternative than PING command ?

Hein van den Heuvel — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:47:50 GMT

You may have to fidn yourself a better ping.

The one out-of-the-box for Hpux is lame.

Check out:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Misc/ping-99.10/man.html

I am used to the one from Tru64 which has a -f for flood and -t for timeout (default 10s, only used for -c=1):
http://btrcx1.cip.uni-bayreuth.de/cgi-bin/manpages/ping/8

fwiw,
Hein.