I have a few question in regards to the nrpe agent install on aix servers. It is basically like ping, but is better, and has more features and functions. Just create a print queue using the printer as queue device in aix and start printing. Be aware that the transmission across the network also takes time. This file will download from the developers website.
Fastest way to find all active ip on a segment aix. Target audience this document is intended for use by nagios administrators who wish to monitor aix servers with nagios xi. I never worked with zabbix, how to install in linux and aix. In the reply there is the send time off the other side in milliseconds, so its possible to distinguish between delay that was caused sending and delay that was caused when receiving. Fping is a pinglike program that uses the internet control message protocol icmp echo request to determine if a target host is responding. Its a beta version of ibms aix port of java 2 sdk, standard edition, version 1. Give it an url, and itll show you how long it takes to connect, send a request and retrieve the reply only the headers. Install fping in ubuntudebianlinuxmint in ubuntu it is very simple to install this just execute the below command package will be installed sudo aptget install fping install fping in redhat 7. Fping download apk, deb, eopkg, ipk, rpm, tgz, txz, xz. Download nping for windows, linux, or mac os x as part of nmap from the nmap download page. Use the normal steps to compile nmap and nping will be compiled along with it. Ga release and development release for aix platform doc.
Hmm two posts in a row about stuff ive used for years that have now gone offline. He is currently the global web architecture gwa aix architecture team lead in boulder. Fping in windows cmd f stands for fast, fping is for fast pinging. Its a beta version of ibm s aix port of java 2 sdk, standard edition, version 1.
Download fping ping other computers on your network from the same host in order to determine the traffic speed for the network via this command line tool. Ads are annoying but they help keep continue reading testing connectivity with fping. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to my visitors. Aix toolbox for linux applications downloads by date ibm. Available aix open source packages on this web site. As a way round the issue and to allow for multiple host processing simultaneously with f, all the hosts that are alive are placed in a variable called alive and then the hosts in the tmphosts. Roland schemers did publish a first version of it in 1992 and it has established itself since then as a standard tool for network diagnostics and statistics. Options have been added since then and fping is now a very handy tool at least i think it is. Fping is a command line application that allows for data collection and recording of the ping command data.
There is also where xcat dep download pages point to. Still, i hope that the transition from fping version 3 to fping version 4 will be as smooth as. Time between pings can be adjusted at wish, ranging. For the very latest code, checkout nmap from our svn repository npingspecific code is in the nping subdirectory as described here. As the list of available packages became to long i have moved it to a separate page in order to speed up downloading of the homepage. Here is the list of available aix open source packages. Download release source distributions or the latest sources from github. Linux bash script that pings multiple ip addresses from a file. Get newsletters and notices that include site news, special offers and exclusive discounts about it. Download fping freeware fping is a simple ping program. He was also a contributing author of the book,exploiting rs6000 sp security. It seems that parsing the data from fping is somewhat difficult.
From time to time i need to scan the segment our aix box is on for all active ips. Power systems how to download iso images of aix install. Ibm cluster systems management for linux now available on. I have two different documents for the install and the first one lists package dependencies. This package comes in two flavors for the different aix levels. Fping differs from ping in that you can specify any number of targets on the command line or specify a file containing a list of targets to ping. It was first made to ping faster than once every second. This document describes how to install the aix monitoring agent on target aix servers. Bruno kerouantonis a system and security engineer working for sysicom in france. Protocol icmp echo request to determine if a host is up. Assuming aix is selected for operating system and v6r1 is selected for version, select 5765g62 aix standard edition to download installation images for the latest aix v6. Instead of sending to one target until it times out or replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next target in a roundrobin fashion. Aix open source packages main aix open source packages. It is most likely the same with normal cmd ping, but it can be simpler like by giving beep sound every time ping received fping.
This includes ips that arent directly communicating with the aix box. The most important feature is to log pings with time and date stamps to a file. Considering that these changes might break some installations, i decided to also maintain a version 3 branch without these changes. Right now im going through a simple script that pings each ip, but this is taking quite awhile especially for a class b segment. Search and download linux packages for alpine, alt linux, arch linux, centos, debian, fedora, kaos, mageia, mint, openmandriva, opensuse, openwrt, rhel, slackware. Pinging with fping and collecting ping performance data. The following publications are available from the web for download at the following site. Installing and updating cygwin packages installing and updating cygwin for 64bit versions of windows. First, download fping source package latest version is 3.
Instead of trying one host until it timeouts or replies, fping will send. Contribute to xcat2xcat dep development by creating an account on github. Theres a statement here about the so called longevity of things in the digital era. You can check it by logging as zabbix user and try to rung fping from command line. Some of the concepts and software are derived from ibm parallel system support programs for aix. It allows the parsing of data for hosts that is alive but not dead. It uses the internet control message protocol icmp echo request to determine if a target host is responding or not. I need a script which can be run in one of the server and that. Fping is a console program, much like the ping program that comes with windows.
Dear, i want to install zabbix in linux and aix servers, any useful tips to do in aix or linux. Linux bash script that pings multiple ip addresses from a. Ibm cluster systems management for linux now available on ibm cluster 0 running linux os enus2035. Download fping packages for alpine, alt linux, arch linux, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, mageia, netbsd, openmandriva, opensuse, openwrt, pclinuxos, slackware. Fping has the same options as the regular ping, and several options that are unique. Show all versions show obsolete packages show renamed packages. Fping is a simple ping program, intended to be used instead of the standard ping program that comes with windows. Hi we have some 300 servers in the data center and some of them are running with aix and some of them are running with solaris. This will send out icmp timestamp requests and print icmp timestamp replies. Fastest way to find all active ip on a segment aix just skins.
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