`ping` plugin

This plugin send a ping.

Warn: This plugin will keep running until the count is done

Configuration

Fields	Description
`hostname`	ping destination
`count`	number of ping you want execute
`interval_second`	interval between two pings

Example

An action of type ping requires the following kind of configuration:

action:
  type: ping
  configuration:
    # mandatory, string
    hostname: example.org
    # mandatory, string as uint
    count: "2"
    # mandatory, string as uint
    interval_second: "1"

Note

The plugin returns two objects, the Output to fetch statistics about ping(s):

{
  "packets_received":1,
  "packets_sent":1,
  "packet_loss": 0.00,
  "ip_addr":"192.168.0.1",
  "rtts":"1s",
  "min_rtt":"1se",
  "max_rtt":"1s",
  "avg_rtt":"1s",
  "std_dev_rtt":"1s"
}

The Metadata to reuse the parameters in a future component:

{
  "hostname":"example.org",
  "count":"2",
  "interval_second": "1"
}

Resources

The ping plugin declares automatically resources for its steps:

socket to rate-limit concurrent execution on the number of open outgoing sockets
url:hostname (where hostname is the ping destination host of the plugin configuration) to rate-limit concurrent execution on a specific destination host

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