pinguin

Just another ping wrapper for nodejs.

Motivation

Actually, pinguin is a fork of node-ping. It's awesome, but maintenance of this package leaves much to be desired. Usually, they merge PRs very rarely. Moreover, this package doesn't support NodeJS standard events mechanism. For now, pinguin is fully equaled the source package.

Installation

npm install pinguin

Usage

Below are examples extracted from examples

Tradition calls

var ping = require('ping');

var hosts = ['192.168.1.1', 'google.com', 'yahoo.com'];
hosts.forEach(function(host){
    ping.sys.probe(host, function(isAlive){
        var msg = isAlive ? 'host ' + host + ' is alive' : 'host ' + host + ' is dead';
        console.log(msg);
    });
});

Tradition calls with configuration

var cfg = {
    timeout: 10,
    // WARNING: -i 2 may not work in other platform like window
    extra: ['-i', '2'],
};

hosts.forEach(function(host){
    ping.sys.probe(host, function(isAlive){
        var msg = isAlive ? 'host ' + host + ' is alive' : 'host ' + host + ' is dead';
        console.log(msg);
    }, cfg);
});

Promise wrapper

var ping = require('ping');

var hosts = ['192.168.1.1', 'google.com', 'yahoo.com'];

hosts.forEach(function (host) {
    ping.promise.probe(host)
        .then(function (res) {
            console.log(res);
        });
});

Promise Wrapper with configable ping options

hosts.forEach(function (host) {
    // WARNING: -i 2 argument may not work in other platform like window
    ping.promise.probe(host, {
        timeout: 10,
        extra: ['-i', '2'],
    }).then(function (res) {
        console.log(res);
    });
});

Support configuration

Below is the possible configuration

/**
 * Cross platform config representation
 * @typedef {Object} PingConfig
 * @property {boolean} numeric - Map IP address to hostname or not
 * @property {number} timeout - Time duration for ping command to exit
 * @property {number} min_reply - Exit after sending number of ECHO_REQUEST
 * @property {string[]} extra - Optional options does not provided
 */

Output specification

• For callback based implementaiton:

/**
 * Callback after probing given host
 * @callback probeCallback
 * @param {boolean} isAlive - Whether target is alive or not
 * @param {Object} error - Null if no error occurs
 */

• For promise based implementation

/**
 * Parsed response
 * @typedef {object} PingResponse
 * @param {string} host - The input IP address or HOST
 * @param {string} numeric_host - Target IP address
 * @param {boolean} alive - True for existed host
 * @param {string} output - Raw stdout from system ping
 * @param {number} time - Time (float) in ms for first successful ping response
 * @param {Array} times - Array of Time (float) in ms for each ping response
 * @param {string} min - Minimum time for collection records
 * @param {string} max - Maximum time for collection records
 * @param {string} avg - Average time for collection records
 * @param {string} stddev - Standard deviation time for collected records
 */