Monitoring the Status of Your Remote Server with Ping Command

A step-by-step guide on how to use the ping command to check if your server is online and accessible from your Raspberry Pi device. …


Updated August 28, 2023

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A step-by-step guide on how to use the ping command to check if your server is online and accessible from your Raspberry Pi device.

Ping is a useful network diagnostic tool that allows you to check whether a remote server is online or not. In this article, we will show you how to use the ping command in Raspberry Pi to monitor the status of your server and ensure it’s accessible from your device. Follow these steps:

  1. Open up your terminal on your Raspberry Pi by clicking on the menu icon -> Accessories -> Terminal or pressing Ctrl + Alt + T keys simultaneously.

  2. Type ping followed by a space, then enter the IP address or domain name of the server you want to check. For example:

$ ping google.com

or

$ ping 8.8.8.8.8

In this case, we’re using Google’s public DNS server as an example.

  1. The terminal will return a series of results showing the round-trip time for each packet sent and received from the server. If there are no issues with connectivity, you should see output similar to this:
PING google.com (172.217.168.238) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lhr35s09-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.168.238): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=25.7 ms
64 bytes from lhr35s09-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.168.238): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=25.2 ms
64 bytes from lhr35s09-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.168.238): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=25.6 ms

If you receive “Destination Host Unreachable” or similar errors, it means the server is not responding to your requests and might be down.

  1. To stop the ping command, press Ctrl + C keys simultaneously in the terminal.

That’s it! You can now use this method to monitor the status of your remote server from your Raspberry Pi device. Remember that this is just one way to check if a server is online and there are other tools available for more advanced network diagnostics.