The Ping driver is a generic driver used to verify whether an equipment is reachable over IP from the probe.
It returns a boolean metric:
To configure it, fill in the IP/Hostname field with:
Ping is a particular type of indicator.
A Ping failure (KO) is not an absence of data: it is a valid data point, simply with the value false.
In other words:
For the Ping driver, it is recommended to:
This is the correct approach to detect an unreachable equipment.
“No data” alarms are generally intended for drivers where the absence of reporting is meaningful.
For Ping, a “No data” alarm would indicate something different:
It is important not to confuse these two situations when configuring alerts.