Ping Data

Ping Data was created when I was having internet connectivity issues and wanted some way to determine when my connection had dropped out or pings were taking an excessive amount of time.

Installation

First, you need to install Node.js, then follow these steps:

$ git clone https://github.com/clempaul/ping-data.git
$ cd ping-data
$ npm install
$ npm -g install forever
$ mkdir data

Configuration

You should edit config/default.json to have settings appropriate to your machine and location.

Startup

There are two components to run:

• pinger sends pings as specified in your config file
• web starts the web interface for viewing the results

These should both be run under forever, which handles restarting the processes if they stop (which pinger does when it needs to rotate the log file) whilst also running as a daemon.

$ forever start forever.json

To verify that these are running, you can check the process list:

$ forever list

By default, the web interface runs on port 3000 (although this is configurable). To view your data, visit http://localhost:3000/.