Copyright (c) 2001-2005 Stephen M Moraco <stephen at debian dot org>

TkPing is an application written in Perl/Tk which helps you monitor hosts on a network. It is intended primarily for system administrators / network administrators who need to detect when crucial hosts and other network nodes go down.

TkPing - created by Stephen M Moraco.

Updates

Mon, Apr. 11 2005

Uploaded 1.1.1  fix bug: now uses fully qualified hostnames in pings

Thu, Sep. 04 2004

Uploaded 1.1.0  fix Mark Down handling and 'recheck counting' bug

Thu, Sep. 03 2004

Uploaded 1.0.1  fix ping statistics gathering bug

Thu, Sep. 02 2004

Uploaded 1.0.0  first version with full originally-intended functionality

Sat, Aug. 11 2001

Uploaded 0.1.1  general updates.

Fri, Jun. 1 2001

Uploaded 0.1.0   first release.

Getting it

TkPing is currently available in two forms:

1. A pre-built ready to install Debian GNU/Linux package which can be obtained using a command line install using something like:

   sudo apt-get install tkping

   or can be downloaded from the tkping package page at
   http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/tkping.html
   and then installed using something like:

   sudo dpkg --install tkping_1.0.0-1_all.deb

2. A source package (gzip'd tarball) downloadable from this site
   by clicking on the following link:  tkping-sources.

Release Notes

See the files NEWS and ChangeLog, included with the distribution.

News of Releases, Bugs

As Debian users work with a package they report problems and/or request enhancements to the package.  You can view reports/requests for tkping at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=tkping

You can review the overall status of the tkping package and subscribe to upload notices at the Debian Package Tracking System page for tkping: http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tkping.html

Building/Installing

Please following the instructions in the file INSTALL provided in the source package.

Using

Once you have installed tkping, run 'tkping -help'  for a list of command line options and read the tkping.1 man page for details on how to configure TkPing.

Further documentation is included in the README and example files.

Credits

TkPing is a reimplementation of a utility called XPing found on HP-UX systems. XPing was an update (by Jeff Okamoto and Ken Stone, Hewlett-Packard) of an earlier utility written for X10 by Mike Harris. An even earlier version of XPing was available from the Interex Association Contributed Software Library (according to the XPing man page).

I had been using the XPing utility for years while administering many HP-UX systems at Hewlett-Packard and found that I wanted the same utility to be available on Debian GNU/Linux (or other Linux) Systems.
 

While creating tkping I had no access to the xping source.  I exercised xping and patterned the behavior of tkping after xping. I did have access to the xping man page and configuration files and again patterned the tkping product after them.

 

Enhancements to TkPing (over xping) provide automatic and specified layout (row and column organization) of the button display and add right-mouse menus to the node buttons making it easier to interact with the individual nodes displayed.

I hope you find this utility useful.  -Stephen

TkPing is copyrighted by Stephen M Moraco and is licensed through the GNU General Public License. Read the COPYING file for the complete license.