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Table of Contents

• What is PINGER?
• Features
• Install the extension
  • Chrome WebStore
• How to Use Pinger?
  • Check status of a Website
  • Check the status of a Server
  • Check the status of a RemoteDB
  • Customize Pinger by updating the settings
• Contribute
• License

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What is PINGER?

Pinger is a simple but elegant chrome browser extension to monitor the status of a remote server, website or a remoteDB from your chrome browser.

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Features

• Pinger lets you check the status and be notified about the status of any remote server, website or a remoteDB.

• Pinger notifies you on chrome by push notification as well as via email.

• Pinger allows you to configure how frequently you want to check the status.

• Note:

  • Pinger will run in the background even when the browser is closed. When running in the background an icon is added in the notification tray of the task bar

  

  • Pinger will only track the status of IP's and URL's which are publicly exposed. Therefore you will not be able to track the IP's and localhost within your domain.
  • If you clear the history of your chrome browser pinger will get reset, you will lose all your existing data in the pinger extension.

Status Icons

• The following table consists of the status icons and what exactly they depict.

  	Waiting for the response
  	Entity is down and polling is done periodically
  	Entity is Up and polling is done periodically
  	Pinger Extension couldn't reach the Pinger API(Check your Internet connection)

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Install the Extension

You can install the Pinger from chrome WebStore or using the developer mode option on chrome settings.

Chrome Web store

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How to use pinger?

Website

• Adding a Website to monitor the status
  • Click on the Pinger icon in the chrome menu to use the extension.
  • By default the Website tab is selected.
  • Click on the Add Button to add the Entity and email(optional) to notify in the respective fields.
  • The extension polls the entity for every 5 min by default. (how to change the polling interval).
  • Example:

  • Entity: https://google.com (Note: default protocol is http and default port number is 8080)
  • Entity: 216.58.197.46:8080

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Server

• Adding a Remote Server to monitor the status
  • Click on the Pinger icon in the chrome menu to use the extension.
  • By default the Website tab is selected, so head to the Remote Server tab.
  • Click on the Add Button to add the Entity with the Port number (mandatory) and email (optional) in the respective fields.(Tooltip helps you with the default Port numbers)
  • Example:

  • Entity: 10.211.0.118:3389 (Note: if you are trying to keep track of a windows machine the default port number would be 3389 and for Linux, it is 22)
  • Entity: 10.211.0.118:62949 (Note: the port number could be any valid port)

  • The extension polls the entity for every 5 min by default. (how to change the polling interval).

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RemoteDB

• Adding a Remote DataBase to monitor the status
  • Click on the Pinger icon in the chrome menu to use the extension.
  • By default the Website tab is selected, so head to the Remote DB tab.
  • Click on the Add Button to add the Entity with the Port number(mandatory) and email(optional) to notify.(Tooltip helps you with the default Port numbers)
  • Example:

  • Entity: 192.168.1.96:1433 (Note: if you are trying to keep track of a Sql server the default port number would be 1433 and for Oracle, it is 1521)
  • Entity: 192.168.1.96:19323 (Note: the port number could be any valid port)

  • The extension polls the entity for every 5 min by default. (how to change the polling interval?).

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Settings

• To Change/Reset the Settings of Pinger
  • Click on the Pinger icon in the chrome menu to use the extension.
  • By default the Website tab is selected, so head to the Settings tab.
  • Add Global Email Address
    • Global Email address is used as a default notifying email for all the entities across all the tabs. (NOTE: This field accepts maximum of 5 emails separated by ,)
    • Run Interval In Minutes field allows you to configure how frequently you want to track the status. (NOTE: Use the navigation buttons to increase/decrease (or) Fill in with custom number of minutes. By default it is 5 mins and the number cannot be less than 5 and more than 180)
    • Enable Desktop Notifications checkbox is used to enable/disable desktop notifications.
    • Reset Pinger Plugin Button is used to reset the plugin. (Note: you may lose all the data entered )

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Contribute

Contributions are always welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines here.

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License