Ping
Ping will make you think one of two things. If it makes you think of irons and drivers and 18 holes of beautiful green fairway, then you are definitely CIO/CEO/CISO material. If it makes you think of submarines or bats, then you're probably geekier like me.
Packet InterNet Groper, or what we affectionately call ping, is a networking utility. It is used to test whether a host is “alive” on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. A host is a computer or other device that is connected to a network. It will measure the time it takes for a message sent from one host to reach another and echo back to the original host. Bats are able to use echo‐location, or bio sonar, to locate and identify objects. We do the same in our networked environments.
Ping will send an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to the target and wait for a reply. This will report problems, trip time, and packet loss if the asset has a heartbeat. If the asset is not alive, you will...