5.3.2 Setting Ping Monitoring

This section describes how to make the required settings for ping monitoring, based on the network configuration shown in Figure 5.5.

Figure 5.5 Example of Ping Monitor Settings

Note

You must complete the physical and virtual adapter settings before making ping monitor settings.

For details on physical adapter settings, refer to "3.4.2 Preliminary Tasks: Physical Adapter Settings."
For details on virtual adapter settings, refer to "3.4.3 Virtual Adapter Settings."

Use the hanetpoll command to make ping monitor settings. Note that you must be a member of the Administrators group to execute hanetpoll.
The following example shows how to execute the hanetpoll command and gives a sample result.

In the sample procedure below, when the physical adapter Local Area Connection 1 is operational, the ping monitor target is 192.168.3.10, 192.168.3.20.
When the physical adapter Local Area Connection 2 is operational, the ping monitor target is 192.168.3.10, 192.168.3.20.

> hanetpoll create -t "Local Area Connection 1" -p 192.168.3.10,192.168.3.20
FJSVhanet: INFO: 00000: The command ended normally.
> hanetpoll create -t "Local Area Connection 2" -p 192.168.3.10,192.168.3.20
FJSVhanet: INFO: 00000: The command ended normally.

For more details on the hanetpoll command, refer to "6.2.4 hanetpoll."

If you set your destination systems as ping monitor targets, you can also monitor transmissions to those systems. You can also set ping monitoring so that users are merely notified of any failures on the transmission path by error messages, whereas adapters will not be switched. For more details, refer to "6.2.4 hanetpoll."

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To ensure that GLS is set and functions correctly, perform the following tasks after making settings for ping monitoring:

Set IP addresses.
For more details, refer to "3.4.5 Follow-up Tasks: IP Address Settings."
Activate virtual adapters.
For more details, refer to "5.1.2 Activating and Deactivating Virtual Adapters."
Start the ping monitor function.
For more details, refer to "5.3.3 Starting and Stopping the Ping Monitor Function."