{"id":4626,"date":"2016-05-17T13:09:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T17:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avtech.avtechdesignworks.com\/articles\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:05:38","slug":"configure-pings-room-alert-4e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/4626\/configure-pings-room-alert-4e\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Configure Pings On Room Alert 4E"},"content":{"rendered":"

Room Alert 4E allows you to ping up to 8 IP addresses. The Room Alert Monitor will send a ping to those addresses to check if the host is reachable. If the host is up, the ping will return as successful and register a normal state; if the host is down, or the Room Alert Monitor cannot reach it, the ping will return as failed and register an alarm state<\/p>\n

Configuring A Ping Device<\/a><\/p>\n

Timing Between Pings<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/strong>Configuring A Ping Device<\/h3>\n

To configure a ping device in your Room Alert 4E, follow the steps below:<\/p>\n

1. Open your Room Alert Monitor\u2019s web interface. You may open the interface using Device Discovery, Device ManageR, or your account at RoomAlert.com<\/a>. You may also type the IP address of the unit directly into the address bar of your web browser.<\/p>\n

2. Navigate to Settings<\/strong>–>Ping<\/strong>\u00a0in the navigation bar to the left to open the Ping Settings<\/em> screen.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0In Retry Count<\/em>, you may enter the number connection attempts the Room Alert Monitor will make before an alarm condition is generated. The default is 1.<\/p>\n

4. In Timeout<\/em>, you may enter the number of seconds to wait for a reply to the connection attempt. The default is 1.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0In the Ping Host Addresses<\/em> table, you may enter up to 8 IP addresses. The default for each is 0.0.0.0.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Select Save Settings<\/strong> at the top or bottom of the page. Your Room Alert Monitor will automatically reboot and commit your changes.<\/p>\n

\"RA_Setings_Ping\"<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/strong>Timing Between Pings<\/h3>\n

Once the Room Alert 4E\u00a0sends a ping to a target, it waits approximately 4 seconds before sending a ping to the next target. The total interval between pings on any one target depends on how many ping devices you have set up:<\/p>\n

– If you have 1 ping device in Room Alert 4E, it will get pinged approximately every 4 seconds. The Room Alert Monitor pings the target, waits for 4 seconds, pings it again, etc. (1 ping device x 4 seconds = 4 second interval)<\/p>\n

– If you have 2 ping devices, each one will get pinged approximately every 8 seconds. The Room Alert Monitor pings the 1st<\/sup> target, waits 4 seconds, pings the 2nd<\/sup> target, waits 4 seconds, pings the 1st<\/sup> target again, etc. (2 ping devices x 4 seconds = 8 second interval)<\/p>\n

– If you have 3 ping devices, each one will get pinged every 12 seconds. The Room Alert Monitor pings the 1st<\/sup> target, waits 4 seconds, pings the 2nd<\/sup> target, waits 4 seconds, pings the 3rd<\/sup> target, waits 4 seconds, pings the 1st<\/sup> target again, etc. (3 ping devices x 4 seconds = 12 second interval.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0…and so on…<\/p>\n

– The largest interval would be for 8 ping devices, which would each get pinged approximately every 32 seconds. (8 ping devices x 4 seconds = 32 second interval)<\/p>\n

The 4 second interval may be slightly protracted by the Room Alert 4E performing another action during that time: if, for example, the Room Alert 4E sends an email during those 4 seconds, the next ping would get slightly delayed until the email is finished sending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Room Alert 4E allows you to ping up to 8 IP addresses. The Room Alert Monitor will send a ping to those addresses to check if the host is reachable. If the host is up, the ping will return as successful and register a normal state; if the host is down, or the Room Alert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n