node-red-contrib-advanced-ping
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A Node-RED node which takes input and pings a remote server.
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node-red-contrib-advanced-ping
A Node-RED node which takes input and pings a remote server.
This is a modification of the node-red-node-ping node. Difference is that this node will perform a ping when it recieves input where the node-red-node-ping node performs pings on a set interval. You may also programmatically pass ping settings to this node. For periodical checks, wire an inject node to this ping node.
Install
Run the following command in the root directory of your Node-RED install
npm install node-red-contrib-advanced-ping
Usage
- Pings a machine and returns the trip time in ms. Ping time is returned in
msg.payload
. Returns boolean false if no response received within 5 seconds, or if the host is unresolveable. - Will perform ping on any input.
- You may override the host set in the configuration by passing in a value in
msg.host
. - For legacy reasons, the node will output the host as
msg.topic
(the original node-red-node-ping does it this way). - Any incomming data will be passed on to the output.
- Incoming
msg.payload
data will be outputted asmsg._payload
(as the newmsg.payload
will contain the result of the ping). - Incoming
msg.topic
data will be outputted asmsg._topic
(as the newmsg.topic
will contain the the host).
- Incoming
Todo
Ability to set ping options in node configuration/by incomming message. Right now, these settings are hardcoded
- Linux: -n -w 5 -c 1
- Windows: -n 1 -w 5000
- Mac: -n -t 5 -c 1