What SolarWind tool can I use to ping external URLs to check round-trip and create reports? My understanding is that Ping Tool can only ping switches, routers, etc.
Below is an example of the report we get with the current tool.
Thanks
Does anyone have an answer to this question?
You could use the traceroute tool to get the said data and the response time monitor tool for the charts representing the response time through a line graph.
Thanks for the guidance. I'll give it a try and post the results here.
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You're not "pinging" the website. What you want to do is load a page, verify that it's complete (i.e. not a 404 error, etc) and time how long it takes to load. You could do that with custom scripts too: time curl www.website.com | grep </head> --Note this script is untested and the syntax may be wrong, but if you know what time, curl, and grep are, you get the idea.
You could ping the server, certainly, but that's not verifying that the website is functional, which appears to be what you want.
