81 REMOTE -PING CONFIGURATIONRemote-pingOverviewIntroduction toRemote-pingRemote-ping is a network diagnostic tool. It is used to test the performance ofvarious protocols running in networks. Remote-ping provides more functions thanthe ping command.■ The ping command can only use the ICMP protocol to test the round trip time(RTT) between this end and a specified destination end for the user to judgewhether the destination end is reachable.■ Besides the above function of the ping command, remote-ping can alsoprovide other functions, such as testing the status (open/close) of aDHCP/FTP/HTTP/SNMP server and the response time of various services.You need to configure the remote-ping client and sometimes the correspondingremote-ping servers to perform various remote-ping tests. All remote-ping testsare initiated by the remote-ping client and you can view the test results onremote-ping client only.When performing a remote-ping test, you need to configure a remote-ping testgroup on the remote-ping client. A remote-ping test group is a set of remote-pingtest parameters. A test group contains several test parameters and is uniquelyidentified by an administrator name and a test tag.After creating a remote-ping test group and configuring the test parameters, youcan then perform a remote-ping test by the test-enable command.■ Being different from the ping command, remote-ping does not display the RTTor timeout status of each packet on the Console terminal in real time. To viewthe statistic results of your remote-ping test operation, you need to execute thedisplay remote-ping command.■ Remote-ping also allows you to set parameters for remote-ping test groups,start remote-ping tests and view statistical test results through a networkmanagement device.Figure 230 Remote-ping illustrationSwitch A Switch BRemote-ping ClientIP networkRemote-Ping Server
