Intro

PingER 2 is an update to the PingER project, primarily created and administered by Les Cottrell.

Data Flow

• PingER2 collects and stores data in the directory defined inside pinger.xml configuration file. It is currently in SLAC set to: /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pinger2/data/

• $ ls \-l /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pinger2/data/ total 365528 \-rwxrwxr-x  1 pinger iepm 163965926 Oct 31 16:40 ping-2009-10.txt\* \-rwxrwxr-x  1 pinger iepm  43266107 Nov 19 11:05 ping-2009-11.txt\* \-rwxrwxr-x  1 pinger iepm 103447435 Jan 31 15:39 ping-2010-01.txt\* \-rwxrwxr-x  1 pinger sf    63376205 Feb 10 16:40 ping-2010-02.txt\*

• Each file contains data of the form:

  pinger.slac.stanford.edu 134.79.240.29 www.ipc.bf 196.28.248.26 1000 1264982436 10 10 423.911 473.670 507.699 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 442 450 499 507 423 432 482 491 498 506 pinger.slac.stanford.edu 134.79.240.29 195.24.192.47 195.24.192.47 1000 1264982436 10 10 431.108 431.668 432.337 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 431 431 432 432 431 431 4 31 431 431 431

  This indicates, the hostname and the ip address of the node running pinger2, remote host to which ping tests are run, size of ping packets, timestamp of test, number of pings sent, number of pings returned,min rtt, avg rtt, max rtt, id numer of returned pings, rtt for each returned ping