Let’s use Chrome’s DevTools: Go to the top right and click on the “hamburger” (that’s the icon of three horizontal bars) to open the Chrome menu and select Tools | Developer Tools. ![]() Nessoft, bless their hearts, haven’t documented the RESTful calls that can be made to PingPlotter’s Web server, so we’re just going to have to poke around a bit. Here’s what the default Web output looks like:Īh! If you can set a new host to trace through the UI then you can add that and anything else the UI permits from a command line with curl, an incredibly rich tool that lets you make protocol-based requests including HTTP and is available for just about every platform other than vacuum cleaners and toasters. This nifty addition lets you expose the PingPlotter display, albeit in a slightly condensed form, to a Web browser or to be used with simple command line tools to get data and configure the application. ![]() This latter facility would be great except for the fact that it uses the Windows Scripting host, which is not a platform I particularly care for, and the API isn't documented except by a number of scripts (decoding them seemed like a lot of work).īut wait! The Pro version of PingPlotter (cheap at $199.95) has a built-in Web server. PingPlotter is, as I discussed, extremely useful for this kind of problem or, indeed, as just a general host availability monitor, and in its bag of tricks is the ability to be scripted. As I explained, it looks like AT&T default DNS servers are behaving badly and I’m waiting to hear back from the “powers that be” at AT&T. ![]() Last week I wrote about PingPlotter and my quest to diagnose AT&T U-verse’s flaky service.
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