Ping Sweep tool

The Ping Sweep tool in ETS for the Desktop can scan a range of IP addresses using ICMP pings and show which IP addresses are in use and which ones are currently free. Ping Sweep can also look up the DNS name for each IP address using your configured DNS and WINS servers. Ping Sweep performs a fast ICMP sweep of your IP address range and displays the results in a table.

Open the Ping Sweep tool

• To launch the tool from the Toolset Launch Pad, locate the Ping Sweep tool and click Launch.

• You can add the tool to a tab in the Workspace Studio, and access it from there.

• To launch the tool from the Windows Start menu:

  1. Click Start > All > SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset.

  2. Right-click Ping Sweep, click More, and click Run as administrator.

Scan a range of IP addresses

1. Specify the IP addresses to scan:

   • Enter a comma-delimited list of IP addresses to scan. You can include dashes, wildcards (* and ?), and subnet identifiers.

     Examples:

     192.168.1.1-192.168.1.2552002::?1192.168.1.1/2410.1.1.1,10.2.2.2/30,1.10.21.*1,1.1.1.1-1.1.1.10

   • To scan a previously entered list, click the down arrow in the Enter ranges to scan box, and then select the list.

   • To scan a large IP range defined in a file, click From File, and then select the file.

     Each line specifies a range of IP addresses. The format must be the same as a manually entered range, as described above.

2. Select Responding, Not Responding, or All in the Scan for list.

3. Click Start Ping Sweep.

   The results of the sweep are displayed in a table.

Export the results of the scan

Save the results to a file in CSV, XML, HTML, or PDF format, or as an image.

1. In the upper-right corner, click .

2. Click Export Table.

3. Select the columns and rows you want to export.

   By default, all columns and rows are selected.

4. Under Export Format, select the format.

5. Click OK.

6. Specify the file name and location. If you selected Image, select the type of image from the Save as type menu. Then click Save.

Modify Ping Sweep settings

1. In the upper-right corner, click .

2. Click Gadget Settings.

3. On the Titles tab, change the title and subtitle displayed on the window to identify the tool.

4. On the ICMP Settings tab, specify any of the following values:

   Max outstanding packets	The maximum number of outstanding packets
   ICMP timeout	The maximum amount of time in milliseconds that Ping Sweep will wait for a response from the target IP address. If the target IP address does not respond within the specified number of milliseconds, it is assumed to be down.
   Pings per node	The maximum number of times Ping Sweep attempts to ping each IP address.
   Packet time-to-live	The number of hops allowed on the way to the specified address. With a setting of 32, a ping could pass through up to 32 different routers on the way to the remote address before being discarded by the network.
   Delay between Pings	The time in milliseconds between each successive ping to the target address. Setting this value very low will send a constant stream of pings to the target IP address.
   ICMP packet payload	The actual data included in the ICMP packet. You can enter text in the window to change the default. For most ping tests, only a small amount of data is needed.

5. Click OK.

Add a discovered device to the Workspace Studio

To add a device that was discovered, drag the device IP address from the Ping Sweep results table to the Devices tab in Workspace Studio.