Multi-Tech Systems MVPGSM-2 User Manual
Chapter 6: Using the Software
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Link Management
The Link Management screen is essentially an automated utility for pinging endpoints on your VOIP network.
This utility generates pings of variable sizes at variable intervals and records the response to the pings.
This utility generates pings of variable sizes at variable intervals and records the response to the pings.
Link management
Link Management screen Field Definitions
Field Name
Values
Description
Monitor Link fields
IP Address to Ping
n.n.n.n
This is the IP address of the target endpoint to be pinged.
Pings per Test
1-999
This field determines how many pings will be generated by the Start Now
command.
command.
Response Timeout
500 – 5000
milliseconds
milliseconds
The duration after which a ping will be considered to have failed.
Ping Size in Bytes
32 – 128 bytes
This field determines how long or large the ping will be.
Timer Interval
between Pings
between Pings
0 or 30 – 6000
minutes
minutes
This field determines how long of a wait there is between one ping and
the next.
the next.
Start Now button
--
Initiates pinging.
Clear button
--
Erases ping parameters in Monitor Link field group and restores default
values.
values.
Link Status Parameters
These fields summarize the results of pinging.
IP Address column
n.n.n.n
Target of ping.
No. of Pings Sent
as listed
Number of pings sent to target endpoint.
No. of Pings Received as listed
Number of pings received by target endpoint.
Round Trip Delay
(Min/Max/Avg)
(Min/Max/Avg)
as listed,
in milliseconds
in milliseconds
Displays how long it took from time ping was sent to time ping response
was received.
was received.
Last Error
as listed
Indicates when last data error occurred.