3.6.8 PING

The PING scanning module for the OpenVMS server sends PING commands to any host or hosts you declare in the [Host hostname] section of the configuration file.

There is not, by default, any host that is automatically checked; but when you specify a host, and (optionally) specify an IP address in the format Address=IP address , Mail Monitor applies default values for the other command parameters as specified in Chapter 7. You can change these default values by modifying entries in the [PING] section of the configuration file.

If you want to change the PING command parameters in a way that affects only a particular named host, add to the [Host hostname] section any of the following optional entries:

• PacketNumber=n

  The number of packets for the PING message.

• Severity=n

  The severity value for a problem, as defined in the note at the beginning of Section 3.3.

• Syntax=PING command syntax

  The syntax of the PING command.