Uses Napalm to connect to the selected target devices and performs a ping to a designated target. The output contains ping round trip time statistics.

Napalm Ping Service

!!! note

The iosxr driver does not support ping, but the ios driver can be selected instead.

Configuration parameters for creating this service instance:

  • All Napalm Service Common Parameters.
  • Count: Number of ping packets to send.
  • Size Size of the ping packet payload to send in bytes.
  • Source IP address Override the source ip address of the ping packet with this provided IP.
  • Ping Timeout Seconds to wait before declaring a ping timeout.
  • Ttl Time to Live parameter, which tells routers when to discard this packet because it has been in the network too long (too many hops).
  • VRF Ping a specific virtual routing and forwarding interface.