Alarm Pinger

About Alarm Pinger

Alarm Pinger (apinger) is a little tool which monitors various IP devices by simple ICMP echo requests. There are various other tools, that can do this, but most of them are shell or perl scripts, spawning many processes, thus much CPU-expensive, especially when one wants continuous monitoring and fast response on target failure. Alarm Pinger is a single program written in C, so it doesn't need much CPU power even when monitoring many targets with frequent probes. Alarm Pinger supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The code have been tested on Linux and FreeBSD.

Download

Alarm Pinger source code releases are available for download at: http://apinger.jajcus.net/downloads/

Mailing Lists

There are three mailing list available for the project:

SVN Repository

You can browse the source code repository using the source browser.

The SVN repository URL for anonymous access is: http://apinger.jajcus.net/svn/apinger/

You may check out the latest code using:

svn checkout http://apinger.jajcus.net/svn/apinger/trunk apinger

Author

Alarm Pinger is written by Jacek Konieczny. Other people who contributed to the project (by sending patches) are mentioned in the SVN commit logs and the ChangeLog included in source releases.