Running the ping utility

To run the ping utility:

  1. In the menu, go to the SD-WAN → CPE section.

    A table of CPE devices is displayed.

  2. Click the CPE device on which you want to run the ping utility.

    The settings area is displayed in the lower part of the page. You can expand the settings area to fill the entire page by clicking the expand icon expand_panel_up_icon_2. By default, the Configuration tab is selected, which displays general information about the CPE device. This tab also displays the table of Out-of-band management tasks being performed by the orchestrator.

  3. Select the Utilities tab.

    By default, the Ping tab is selected, which displays the ping utility settings.

  4. In the Destination IP address field, enter the IPv4 address to which you the CPE device sends ICMP requests.
  5. If you want the CPE device to send ICMP requests from a created network interface, in the Source network interface drop-down list, select the network interface.
  6. In the Count field, enter the number of ICMP requests that the CPE device sends. Range of values: 1 to 1,000,000. Default value: 5.
  7. In the Timeout (sec.) field, enter the time in seconds after which the CPE device must receive an ICMP response to consider the request a success. Range of values: 1 to 3600. Default value: 2.
  8. In the Size field, enter the size of the ICMP request in bytes. Range of values: 1 to 65,535. The default value is 56.
  9. In the TTL field, enter the maximum number of hops for ICMP requests. Range of values: 1 to 255. Default value: 255.
  10. In the Interval field, enter the interval in seconds for the CPE device to use when sending ICMP requests to the specified IPv4 address. Range of values: 1 to 300. Default value: 1.
  11. Click Run.

The ping utility is run on the CPE device, and a report containing the output of the ping utility is displayed in the lower part of the settings area.

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