"Pinger" component (pinger)➧

Overview

Constant ICMP availability checks of devices: status, availability percentage, outage log.

What it provides➧

The "Pinger" tab on every device page — ICMP devices and Pinger
Availability status in the device list, on the map and in the dashboard widget
ICMP devices — monitoring any host without SNMP

How it works➧

Checks are done by a separate service (the wca-icmp-pinger container): it gets the list of enabled devices from WildcoreDMS, pings them constantly and sends results back.

WildcoreDMS stores the current status of each device and the outage log (when it went down, when it came back, duration), from which availability for 1/7/30 days is calculated.

Statuses are exported to metrics — they drive the "device unavailable" events and notifications, the status in the device list, on the map and in the dashboard widget.

The ping result is also used before accessing hardware: an unavailable device is marked unavailable immediately, without waiting for an SNMP timeout.

Permissions➧

Permission	What it allows
Show device info	Viewing status and log

Console commands➧

wca pinger:update-exporter-statuses — refresh statuses (runs automatically)

Enabling➧

The component is enabled in Configuration > System configuration → "Components" tab or with:

sudo wca component:control pinger enable