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ipPulse™ is a Connectivity and Device Status Monitoring Tool. Use ipPulse to monitor the status of IPv4 connected devices (nodes) on any IP connected network. ipPulse uses a variety of methods including ping, tcp connect attempts, and SNMP to poll and check the network connectivity of a list of user-defined nodes. ipPulse alerts you to failures using a variety of techniques ranging from audible messages to email notification.

Monitoring Test Methods: each IPv4 address can be tested with a Primary test and optionally a Secondary test.

Primary test can ping the target to see if it responds or connect to a TCP port* to see if the connection is accepted.
Secondary test can be disabled or you can have it connect to a TCP port* to see if the connection is accepted or it can use SNMP v1/v2c to find out if a network interface is down.

Features

Supports a large list of target hosts entered as either hostnames or IP addresses. The list can be imported from a text file.
Polls the list on a cyclical basis with full control over the list cycle timing parameters.
Supports a primary and secondary test.
Supports standard Ping (ICMP Echo Requests/Replies). Primary test only.
TCP Port numbers for TCP connect tests are assignable on a per-node basis. Primary or secondary test.
Optionally uses SNMP v1/v2c as a secondary test by requesting MIB2 ifOperStatus for every interface found on the target node. Community names are assignable on a per-target basis.
Optional SNMP queries can be made for obtaining more extensive data from the target host. ipPulse includes a number of OID presets and 12 user defined OIDs. Example: you can obtain MAC addresses for every interface from an SNMP enabled host.
Multiple alerts and logging. Alert options include beeping your computer, playing a wave file, notifying someone by email, or sending an email to a cell phone. Logging options include logging all test results to a text file, logging only errors to a text file, or logging errors to a dynamically created HTML page. Any combination of logging options can be used. Alerts are issued upon failures using user-defined criteria. Changes from a FAIL state to a PASS state can generate email messages or pager messages.
Email notification via the SMTP protocol with the server of your choice. It supports standard SMTP messaging (no authentication), SMTP AUTH Login and STARTTLS (TLS) messaging.
Remote Control allows you to view log files and start, pause or stop a scanning cycle. Remote Control is password protected and can reside on any port. It is disabled by default.
All documentation is contained in a standard help file and in HTML help files.