Use the ping test to verify network connectivity and response time between the Safeguard for Privileged Passwords Appliance and the specified host.
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Navigate to Network Diagnostics:
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Click Ping.
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Enter the remote host's IP or Hostname.
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Optionally, click More Settings then configure these additional settings:
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Resolve IP addresses to hostnames
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Size: Buffer size; range from 1 to 65500
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Time to live: Enter a value from 1 to 255
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Record route for count hops (IPv4 only): Enter a value from 1 to 9
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Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply: Enter a value from 1 to 4000
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Number of echo requests to send: Enter a value from 1 to 65527
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Set "don't fragment" flag in packet (IPv4 only)
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Type of service: Enter from 1 to 255
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Time stamp for count hops (IPv4 only): Enter from 1 to 4
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Use internal address as source
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Click Ping to run the test. The test results display in the Output window.
Use Show Routes to retrieve routing tables to further investigate connectivity issues.
- Navigate to Network Diagnostics:
- web client: Navigate to Appliance > Network Diagnostics.
- Select Show Routes.
- Click Show Routes to run the test.
- The test results display in the Output window.
Use telnet to test TCP/IP connectivity between the Safeguard for Privileged Passwords Appliance and the specified host.
- Navigate to Network Diagnostics:
- web client: Navigate to Appliance > Network Diagnostics.
- Click Telnet.
- Enter the remote host's IP or Hostname.
- Enter the Port number on a target host. The default is 23 and you can enter a value from 0 to 65535.
- Optionally, click More Settings to configure the Connection Timeout from 1 to 15 seconds.
- Click Connect to run the test. The test results display in the Output window.
Test throughput to other appliances in the cluster.
- Navigate to Appliance > Network Diagnostics.
- Click Throughput.
- In Target Appliance, select the target cluster appliance from the list.
- In MB to Transfer, select the size of the transfer to test (1 to 1000 MB).
- Click Test Throughput to run the test. View the Output.