Pinger - Client application for Peep: The Network Auralizer.
Pinger is a client for Peep which pings hosts and, if a host is unresponsive, initiates a broadcast to the Peep server, peepd, which then translates the event into an aural signal such as a chirping bird or laughing monkey.
This application is a part of Peep and requires that the Peep Perl modules have been installed.
pinger supports the following command-line options:
--interval=[SECONDS] The number of seconds to wait between each attempted ping of each host. --hosts=[STRING] A comma-delimited list of hosts which will be monitored. Hosts can also be specified in the Peep configuration file, Any hosts specified by the hosts option will override any specified in the Peep configuration file.
In addition, the following options are common to all Peep clients:
--config=[PATH] Path to the configuration file to use --debug=[NUMBER] Enable debugging. (Def: 0) --nodaemon Do not run in daemon mode --pidfile=[PATH] The file to write the pid out to (Def: /var/run/pinger.pid) --output=[PATH] The file to log logparser output to (Def: stderr) --noautodiscovery Disables autodiscovery and enables the server and port options --server=[HOST] The host (or IP address) to connect to --port=[PORT NO] The port to use --silent Does not produce output. To eliminate all output, either the debug option should be set to 0 or an output file should be specified. --help Prints a simple help message
pinger pinger --help pinger --nodaemon --noautodiscovery --server=localhost --port=2000 pinger --config=/usr/local/etc/peep.conf --debug=9 pinger --logfile=/var/log/messages --debug=9 pinger --output=/var/log/peepd/pinger.log --debug=7
Collin Starkweather <collin.starkweather@colorado.edu> Copyright (C) 2000
perl(1), peepd(1), Net::Peep::Client::Pinger, peepd.
http://peep.sourceforge.net
To install Net::Peep, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Net::Peep
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Net::Peep
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.