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Ping scanning is a quick and efficient way to tackle network discovery in a large enterprise, which can be made easier with the flexible ping sweep features in SolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset™ (ETS).
Learn which IP addresses are in use and which ones are currently free by pinging multiple devices and IP addresses at the same time. This information is essential for network monitoring, troubleshooting, and resource provisioning. You can also allocate resources more effectively by knowing which IP addresses in a specific range are active and inactive.
The ping sweep tool in ETS can help you create a comprehensive network directory. While executing an ICMP sweep, ETS can also look up the DNS name for each IP address. You can use this information to add more detail to your list of IP addresses, making it easier to stay organized even as your network grows or changes.
Once you’ve executed a ping sweep, you’ll need an easy and efficient way to share your analysis with your IT team. With the ETS ping sweep tool, results and calculations can be exported in many different formats, including CSV, TXT, XLS, and HTML page.
When it comes to preparing for audits, having the ability to provide reporting in various formats can help you more easily demonstrate compliance in whatever format an auditor prefers.
ETS is designed to be more than a first-class ping scanner. This intelligent ping sweeper can also help network administrators monitor and analyze pings as well. You can graph ping sweep results using intuitive bar, column, ribbon, step, or area graphs in addition to more easily visualizing response time problems to better troubleshoot performance issues. SolarWinds ETS can also help speed up ping sweeping with the ability to create custom profiles to automatically monitor a specific set of devices.
You may need more than an enterprise-grade ping sweeper to comprehensively manage and monitor your networks.
Engineer’s Toolset’s suite of over 60 products includes five top ping tools and seven top IP address management tools built to help ensure you have the solutions you need. All tools are accessible by a unified web console, and five of the most popular network management tools — Response Time Monitor, Open Port Scanner, CPU Monitor, Memory Monitor, and TraceRoute — are available online.
Ping is a signal used to see if a device connected to a network is reachable or measure how long it takes a networked device to respond to a request. The actual ping is a packet of 32 to 56 bytes containing an “echo” request for the host to respond to if it is online, available, and performing network operations at speed.
Ping is predominantly used to keep track of device availability and network latency, but this simple and effective technique has many different use cases:
Ping sweep, also known as ICMP sweep or a ping scan, is a network scanning technique you can use to find out which IP addresses map to live hosts. In contrast to a single ping, a ping sweep uses ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) ECHO requests to communicate with multiple hosts at the same time. Only the live hosts will reply or “pong” back, giving you equivalent results of multiple single pings in one fell swoop.
Ping sweeps have the same three major use cases as single pings — discovery, monitoring, troubleshooting — plus applications in network security. For instance, you could use ping sweep to detect any unauthorized devices on your network or make sure the IP addresses on your network match up to your records. Ping sweeps are also useful for auditing purposes.
Ping sweeps are more complex than single pings, but they’re also slower and may require more advanced ping sweep software with specialized capabilities to get the most out of them. An enterprise-grade ping sweep tool can help network administrators reap the benefits of using a ping sweep and avoid common pain points.
A ping command consists of two parts — an echo request and an echo response. The echo request/ping command is a set of packets sent to a single IP address or a range of IP addresses, and the echo response or “pong” comes from the IP address to which the ping was sent. The input value of the host determines what route the ping will take and exposes any performance issues along the route. It can be a domain name, an IP address, or a host. The echo response, or lack thereof, can reveal important information about networked devices to help aid troubleshooting.
Knowing how to run a ping sweep manually can help you check on a single address or get a quick look into your network’s devices. Here’s how to ping an IP address:
If the ping returns no data and your network connection is strong, it’s reasonable to assume the host you pinged is unavailable or offline. If the ping request timed out, you might have input the IP address incorrectly or the address doesn’t exist. If your ping statistics show many packets were lost, it’s reasonable to assume you have a connectivity issue. At this point, it’s best to use a ping scan tool to investigate further.
Ping is a quick and versatile method network administrators can use to find out valuable information about their network. If you’re managing a large enterprise, especially one handling VoIP calls or any other service taking a toll on your network, it’s critical devices and IP addresses stay online and operate as efficiently as possible.
Network administrators should use a ping sweeper to execute ping scans in their network because even though technological advancements have made it possible (and much faster) to ping multiple devices at once, using command-line prompts often don’t offer the same data collection, retention, and analysis capabilities dedicated ping sweep tools do.
SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset is a bundle of over 60 of the best network management tools, including tools for ping sweep. Key functions include:
Combine the ETS ping sweep tool with any of the other ping and IP address-related tools to achieve comprehensive network management.
Engineer’s Toolset brings together over 60 of IT’s best enterprise network management tools under one collection. This tool includes everything you need to execute a standard ping sweep, plus more advanced ping sweep tools.
The following list includes the top five tools related to ping and ping sweep in ETS:
For more help monitoring and managing IP addresses, you can also try these other included tools:
Ping is a signal used to see if a device connected to a network is reachable or measure how long it takes a networked device to respond to a request. The actual ping is a packet of 32 to 56 bytes containing an “echo” request for the host to respond to if it is online, available, and performing network operations at speed.
Ping is predominantly used to keep track of device availability and network latency, but this simple and effective technique has many different use cases:
Ping sweep, also known as ICMP sweep or a ping scan, is a network scanning technique you can use to find out which IP addresses map to live hosts. In contrast to a single ping, a ping sweep uses ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) ECHO requests to communicate with multiple hosts at the same time. Only the live hosts will reply or “pong” back, giving you equivalent results of multiple single pings in one fell swoop.
Ping sweeps have the same three major use cases as single pings — discovery, monitoring, troubleshooting — plus applications in network security. For instance, you could use ping sweep to detect any unauthorized devices on your network or make sure the IP addresses on your network match up to your records. Ping sweeps are also useful for auditing purposes.
Ping sweeps are more complex than single pings, but they’re also slower and may require more advanced ping sweep software with specialized capabilities to get the most out of them. An enterprise-grade ping sweep tool can help network administrators reap the benefits of using a ping sweep and avoid common pain points.
A ping command consists of two parts — an echo request and an echo response. The echo request/ping command is a set of packets sent to a single IP address or a range of IP addresses, and the echo response or “pong” comes from the IP address to which the ping was sent. The input value of the host determines what route the ping will take and exposes any performance issues along the route. It can be a domain name, an IP address, or a host. The echo response, or lack thereof, can reveal important information about networked devices to help aid troubleshooting.
Knowing how to run a ping sweep manually can help you check on a single address or get a quick look into your network’s devices. Here’s how to ping an IP address:
If the ping returns no data and your network connection is strong, it’s reasonable to assume the host you pinged is unavailable or offline. If the ping request timed out, you might have input the IP address incorrectly or the address doesn’t exist. If your ping statistics show many packets were lost, it’s reasonable to assume you have a connectivity issue. At this point, it’s best to use a ping scan tool to investigate further.
Ping is a quick and versatile method network administrators can use to find out valuable information about their network. If you’re managing a large enterprise, especially one handling VoIP calls or any other service taking a toll on your network, it’s critical devices and IP addresses stay online and operate as efficiently as possible.
Network administrators should use a ping sweeper to execute ping scans in their network because even though technological advancements have made it possible (and much faster) to ping multiple devices at once, using command-line prompts often don’t offer the same data collection, retention, and analysis capabilities dedicated ping sweep tools do.
SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset is a bundle of over 60 of the best network management tools, including tools for ping sweep. Key functions include:
Combine the ETS ping sweep tool with any of the other ping and IP address-related tools to achieve comprehensive network management.
Engineer’s Toolset brings together over 60 of IT’s best enterprise network management tools under one collection. This tool includes everything you need to execute a standard ping sweep, plus more advanced ping sweep tools.
The following list includes the top five tools related to ping and ping sweep in ETS:
For more help monitoring and managing IP addresses, you can also try these other included tools:
Engineer's Toolset
Automatically discover network devices as well as map network topology.
Track device availability, memory utilization, CPU load, interface statistics, and performance & latency of network paths.
Quickly troubleshoot your network with enhanced ping capabilities and packet route tracing.
