Probe (Ping +)
TL;DR
Lumics provides more than just ping (up/down) so we call it Probe.
Lumics sends a flurry of packets to ping-only devices to measure latency and packet loss.
Lumics also does TCP monitoring and HTTP ping.
Combine Probe data with info from other devices in your system for a single pane of glass view.
Lumics saves customers money by including a group of Probe licenses with every base license.
More than just ping
Most ping-only licenses allow you to simply test up/down status on the device. Typically, a single packet is sent to the device periodically and the device’s status is reported on a dashboard or triggers an alert.
Lumics is unique in that it sends a flurry of packets (24 packets within a 6-second interval, repeated once per minute). This has little impact on the system from a performance standpoint, but allows us to collect other valuable data from the device beyond just up/down status.
The packet count and the frequency are configurable on a per-device basis giving you the administrative control you need to get the data you want but also keep the system running at peak performance.
Latency and Packet Loss
Sending a flurry of packets each minute reveals critical information on ping-only devices, such as latency and packet loss, which can be stored and visualized on dashboards, used for troubleshooting purposes, trigger alerts, and can be included in reports.
Monitoring this additional data often helps prevent critical failures on ping-only devices rather than just waiting to find out one is down and then scrambling to fix it as quickly as possible.
TCP port monitoring and HTTP ping
In addition to basic ICMP pinging, Lumics’ Probe has the ability to monitor TCP port services.
Lumics can check to see if specific services are responding on a particular port number and report when they are down. This is unique compared to other ping-only monitoring licenses.
Lumics advanced TCP monitoring allows us to send data and evaluate the response, such as DNS health checks (you construct the packet that you want to send to the TCP port and evaluate the result).
Lumics Probe license also includes HTTP monitoring, giving you the ability to check the response time of a web page via HTTP or HTTPS and add that data to a graph, dashboard, or report.
Lumics can also query and evaluate the response code from a website to check up/down status and generate alerts when needed.
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The Lumics Lens
With Lumics’ customizable Dashboards and Reports, Probe data from ping-only devices can be combined with other important data from your network environment.
Lumics allows you to create a “single pane of glass” to monitor all the critical components of your system without having to switch between multiple platforms, applications, or windows.
With Lumics, you can get to the root of almost any problem – as well as preventing many of them from happening in the first place – very quickly and with extremely accurate data. Eliminate the noise, don’t miss critical events, and stay on top of system performance even with the simplest of the devices you are monitoring.
Pricing for Probe
Lumics includes a group of Probe Licenses for FREE with every Base License purchased, so most Lumics customers pay nothing extra to monitor all their ping-only devices.
In the event you have an extremely large number of ping-only devices you want to monitor, Lumics offers additional Probe License packages at a nominal fee with volume discounting.
You can request a custom price quote for your environment by completing this Quote Request form and sharing some basic information about your current device configurations.
