Chapter 6: Using the Software
Link Management
The Link Management screen is essentially an automated utility for pinging endpoints on your VOIP network. This utility generates pings of variable sizes at variable intervals and records the response to the pings.
Figure 6-6: Link management
Link Management screen Field Definitions
Field Name | Values |
Monitor Link | fields |
IP Address to Ping | n.n.n.n |
Pings per Test | |
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Response Timeout | 500 – 5000 |
| milliseconds |
Ping Size in Bytes | 32 – 128 bytes |
Timer Interval | 0 or 30 – 6000 |
between Pings | minutes |
Start Now command | |
button |
|
Clear command | |
button |
|
Link Status Parameters | |
IP Address column | n.n.n.n |
No. of Pings Sent | as listed |
No. of Pings | as listed |
Received |
|
Round Trip Delay | as listed, |
(Min/Max/Avg) | in milliseconds |
Last Error | as listed |
Description
This is the IP address of the target endpoint to be pinged.
This field determines how many pings will be generated by the Start Now command.
The duration after which a ping will be considered to have failed.
This field determines how long or large the ping will be.
This field determines how long of a wait there is between one ping and the next.
Initiates pinging.
Erases ping parameters in Monitor Link field group and restores default values.
These fields summarize the results of pinging. Target of ping.
Number of pings sent to target endpoint. Number of pings received by target endpoint.
Displays how long it took from time ping was sent to time ping response was received.
Indicates when last data error occurred.
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