Simple ping monitoring

[xms_user]

I am a new to NetXMS so excuse my courage.

I need to monitor dozens of servers mainly by network availability (PING).
I'm kinda confused how to setup PING monitoring. I've already setup a new node (server) and now don't know where setup PING.
I've read documentation and there's something about loading/importing subagent and editing agent's config file with parameters of PING.
It's kinda weird for me, I find PING monitoring very essential to NMS, but OK, this is the way NetXMS handles the thing.

Is it possible to setup PING monitoring via GUI (enable PING and define PING parameters)?

[victor]

Hi!

Server do ICMP ping automatically during status polls for all registered nodes. If node didn't respond, SYS_NODE_DOWN event will be generated. You only need to setup PING subagent if you want to measure response time or want to ping some nodes from remote location. You can disable using ICMP for status polling by checking "Disable ICMP" on "Polling" page in node properties.

Best regards,
Victor

[xms_user]

Thanks for explanation.

@victor said in Simple ping monitoring:

You only need to setup PING subagent if you want to measure response time or want to ping some nodes from remote location.

How do I do that (in GUI)?

[alk]

http://wiki.netxms.org/wiki/Subagent:Ping