[solved] Windows Ping on certain times

[Karde]

Hi

Is there any way to run ping from cacti on certain times of a day? I don't wan't to load the pipe out or the link from the customers on day time.

A ping script or any way to limit access to certain exe files on the server (I now run tping.exe) on certain times of a day?
I have around 200 router which I wan't to ping, I know I can do this using a IP-SLA icmp-echo, but my graph dosen't have the same fine layout in cacti as when you perform a "normal" tping (packet loss on the graph) and this graph is to be presented to a customer.

Or do anyone have a nice template for IP-SLA echos?

Stupied question, but do you think I need to worry that there's a way that the ping will slow down the pipe out (100 fiber to 200 routers) to my customers, or the customers access to my core (some times only 8/1mbit adsl vpn tunnels to the core) on day times using ping?

Thanks for all the help!

[Karde]

Soloved this using bat files which renames the tping to ex. "tpingrest" with a windows scheduler, and renames it back during nighttime, but I appreciate input !

[BSOD2600]

Why don't you want to run the pings at every cacti polling interval?

[Karde]

Just don't want to load the router with uneccecary traffic, and only need the response time during night when there's no other trafic, but maybe I should'nt worry about load :/ after al it's just a ping.. Do you think this is any issue with my amount of host's and ISP capabilities?

[BSOD2600]

IMO, if you're worried about a few [dozen] pings creating additional load on your network, there are some much larger issues at hand. I wouldn't worry about it.