PING Adapter

Pings configured IP addresses.

Pings specified IP addresses in a defined interval and monitors the results.

This adapter uses Sentry libraries to automatically report exceptions and code errors to the developers. For more details and for information how to disable the error reporting see Sentry-Plugin Documentation! Sentry reporting is used starting with js-controller 3.0.

Ping from javascript adapter

You can ping any IP address from the JavaScript adapter with command:

sendTo('ping.0', 'ping', '192.168.1.1', (res) => {
    console.log('Result: ' + JSON.stringify(res)); // Result: {"result": {"host": "192.168.1.1", "alive": true, "ms": 250}}
});

Known Issues

• if it is not possible to ping your linux client, check if iputils-ping is correctly installed on a client.

• ping command under linux requires root permissions.

You can give the adapter the rights to execute the ping command as root.

For this, you need to add the following line to the /etc/sudoers file with sudo visudo command: iobroker ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/ping.

Or you can allow the ping execution by sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep /bin/ping command.

You must install setcap with sudo apt-get install libcap2-bin before if setcup not found.

Todo

• [ ] Implement the possibility to monitor TCP ports

Changelog

1.7.9 (2024-10-01)

• (@GermanBluefox) Small changes the layout of the dynamic messages

1.7.8 (2024-09-28)

• (@GermanBluefox) Used iobroker/eslint-config
• (@GermanBluefox) Fixed some errors with setcup
• (@GermanBluefox) Corrected admin notification

1.7.6 (2024-09-21)

• (@GermanBluefox) Corrected notification message

1.7.5 (2024-09-18)

• (@GermanBluefox) Corrected small error about range length

1.7.4 (2024-09-17)

• (@GermanBluefox) Added support for dynamic notifications
• (@GermanBluefox) Added custom range settings

1.7.3 (2024-08-25)

• (@GermanBluefox) Added the functionality to poll the address range periodically

1.7.1 (2024-08-25)

• (@GermanBluefox) Added resolution of IP addresses to MAC addresses

1.7.0 (2024-08-17)

• (@GermanBluefox) Added possibility to browse the IP ranges

1.6.4 (2024-07-17)

• (@GermanBluefox) Added possibility to execute setcap command to allow ping without root rights

1.6.3 (2024-07-16)

• (@GermanBluefox) Updated the packages

1.6.2 (2023-07-19)

• (McM1957) Handling of state updates causing crashes with js-controller 5 has been corrected. (Issue #106)
• (McM1957) Trailing spaces are now removed from ip address and name. Trailing spaces blocked correct operation. (Issue #98)
• (@GermanBluefox) Added JSON config
• (@GermanBluefox) Added different intervals for online and offline devices
• (@GermanBluefox) implemented export/import of devices

1.5.3 (2022-02-24)

• (Apollon77) Fix the ping retry logic

1.5.2 (2022-01-20)

• (basti4557) Number of retries can be defined if a ping request failed. This should minimize wrong offline detection.

1.5.0 (2021-07-14)

• js-controller 2.0 required at least
• (Apollon77) optimize for js-controller 3.3

1.4.12 (2020-09-18)

• (Apollon77) Prevented a crash case when no devices are defined (Sentry IOBROKER-PING-R)

1.4.11 (2020-08-26)

• (Apollon77) update js-controller dependency to correct version (1.5.8)

1.4.8 (2020-06-29)

• (Apollon77) Prevent adapter crashes with invalid state/channel names, see error log! (Sentry IOBROKER-PING-H, IOBROKER-PING-P, IOBROKER-PING-B)

1.4.7 (2020-05-02)

• (Apollon77) finally try to catch spawn errors (Sentry IOBROKER-PING-2)

1.4.6 (2020-04-29)

• (Apollon77) Make sure the adapter does not crash if ping command cannot be executed (Sentry)
• (Apollon77) Catch error when ping.probe could not be started (Sentry IOBROKER-PING-2)

1.4.5 (2020-04-23)

• (Apollon77) Fixed a potential crash case (Sentry)

1.4.4 (2020-04-17)

• (@GermanBluefox) Added support for Admin3

1.4.3 (2020-04-17)

• (Apollon77) Add Sentry for js-controller 3.0
• (Apollon77) update dependencies

1.4.2 (2020-01-23)

• (JayVee2) Sort the IP addresses

1.4.1 (2019-01-08)

• (simatec) supported compact mode

1.4.0 (2018-01-25)

• (vdemidov) refactored, added ping time and roundtrips per second for every host

1.3.2 (2017-09-20)

• (ldittmar) object values are converted to the valid type

1.3.0 (2017-02-21)

• (@GermanBluefox) allowed removing host name from state's name

1.2.0 (2016-12-09)

• (@GermanBluefox) change configuration dialog

1.1.3 (2016-11-16)

• (@GermanBluefox) catch error if no IP defined

1.1.1 (2016-04-10)

• (@GermanBluefox) remove ms

1.1.0 (2016-04-10)

• (@GermanBluefox) rewrite ping for windows

1.0.0 (2016-04-03)

• (@GermanBluefox) support for freebsd and all windows languages
• (@GermanBluefox) add tests

0.1.3 (2015-01-26)

• (@GermanBluefox) Fixed the error if the configuration changed

0.1.2 (2015-01-14)

• (@GermanBluefox) Fixed the configuration page

0.1.1 (2015-01-03)

• (@GermanBluefox) Enabled npm install

0.1.0 (2014-11-26)

• (@GermanBluefox) Used ping npm module instead of static one

0.0.5 (2014-11-21)

• (@GermanBluefox) Made possible to have shorter ping intervals (down to 5 seconds)

0.0.4 (2014-11-07)

• (@GermanBluefox) fix ping node

0.0.3 (2014-11-03)

• (@GermanBluefox) fix ping node (do not forget to remove package from git when the npm gets the update)

0.0.1 (2014-11-02)

• (@GermanBluefox) support of server (actually no authentication)

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014-2024, @GermanBluefox

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