How to Configure Ping Interval/Timeout Settings for HA Path Monitoring

Overview

The Ping Interval setting for path monitoring specifies the interval between pings that are sent to the destination address. The Ping Count setting specifies the number of failed pings before declaring a failure. This document describes how to configure the settings for Ping Interval and Ping Count.

Steps

The settings can be updated from the web UI or CLI, as follows:

Web UI

1. Go to Device > High Availability > Link and Path Monitoring
2. Select or Add a Path Group
   
3. Adjust the Ping Interval value
   • Default: 200 milliseconds
   • Range: 200-60000 milliseconds
4. Adjust the Ping Count value
   • Default: 10 pings
   • Range: 3-10 pings
5. Commit the changes.

CLI

1. > configure
2. # set deviceconfig high-availability group 10 monitoring path-monitoring path-group virtual-router VR1
   + enabled             enabled
   + failure-condition   Condition to determine failure, default any (failure on any monitored IP)
   + ping-count          ping-count
   + ping-interval       ping-interval
   > destination-ip      Destination IPv4/6(s) to monitor
   Note: Apply the appropriate options to the command to update the desired setting values.
3. # commit

Run the following command to view the path monitoring configuration:

> show high-availability path-monitoring

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