Description: Writing an IP address to ipPingTarget causes the LANtern network monitor to ping that host (using ICMP Echo). When the LANtern network monitor receives the echo response, a pingNotification trap is issued to the host that requested the ping. The data passed with the trap are ipPingTarget and ipPingDuration.

Note: There is a separate instance of this variable (indexed by the IP address of the host to receive the notification) for each ping outstanding. This is best illustrated by an example; suppose one wants to request the LANtern to ping host 130.57.1.2 and send the ping notification trap to host 130.57.8.9. Accordingly, a set request as follows has the desired effect: ipPingTarget.130.57.8.9 = 130.57.1.2