pinglog

A very simple ICMP Ping tool to log results to CSV and accompanying tool to generate graph data from the collected data. Useful when you need to provide a log of issues with your ISP.

The only dependency is ping3 which you can install via pip

Note: You may need to run this as root.

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Command Arguments

ICMP Ping Tool
options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --target TARGET_HOST [TARGET_HOST ...]
                        Target host to ping (default: 8.8.8.8)
  --targetfile TARGET_FILE
                        (Optional) New line separated file of target hosts.
  --count NUM_PINGS     Number of pings to send (default: 5)
  --timeout TIMEOUT     Timeout for each ping in seconds (default: 2)
  --timeoutunit {s,ms}  Timeout unit ([s or ms] default: s)
  --ttl TTL             Timeout for each ping in seconds (default: 64)
  --size PACKET_SIZE    Size of the ICMP Packet (default: 56)
  --continuous          Ping continuously
  --output OUTPUT_FILE  Output CSV file (default: ping_results.csv) [@ip@ will be replaced by current target]
  --print               Print output of each ping

Examples

• pinglog.py --target 1.2.3.4 - Pings to 1.2.3.4 with defaults of 2 second timeout and a total of 5 ICMP ping requests and write to the file ping_results.csv all the results
• pinglog.py --target 1.2.3.4 4.5.6.7 --print would print out the ping results with defaults of 2 second timeout and a total of 5 ICMP ping requests and write to the file ping_results.csv all the results of both 1.2.3.4 and 4.5.6.7.
• pinglog.py --target 192.168.1.2 192.168.3.4 192.168.5.6 --print --output 'ping_results-@[email protected]' --size 128 --continuous - This would print out the ping results with defaults of 2 second timeout and continuous ping requests. It would also create an ICMP packet of 128 bytes. It would create a unique file for each IP based on the template provided.

pinglog

Tool to generate graphs from the results. This tool needs pandas and matplotlib.

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Command Arguments

This command takes a single required argument --srcdir. This is the path to the CSV files generated by pinglog.py.

Example Output