Welcome to the PingPlotter Pro Product Manual

Last revision date: 4/24/2012

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• Introduction
• How PingPlotter Works
• Operation
  • Basic Settings
  • The Interface - Graphs
  • Summary Graphs
  • Timeline Graphing
  • Timeline Graph Annotation
  • Tracing to Multiple Targets
  • Named Configurations
  • Web Interface
  • Reporting
  • Tracing from a remote server
  • Workspaces
• Common Tasks
  • Getting notified of a network problem (alerts)
    • Creating / Configuring Alerts
    • Troubleshooting Alerts
    • Email Setup (for alerts)
    • Alert Events
      • Event Notification
      • Event - Play a Sound
      • Event - Send Email
      • Event - Launch an executable
      • Event - Log to file
      • Event - Tray Icon Change
    • Variable Substitution
  • Running as a service
  • Exporting data for further analysis
  • Long term monitoring and auto-saving data
  • Automatically start tracing when starting PingPlotter
• Understanding Output
  • Getting Started Guide
  • Interpreting Results - A Quick Example
  • Interpreting Results - Longterm Monitoring
  • Interpreting Results - Gamers
  • Interpreting Results - ISP Problems
  • Interpreting Results - Bad Hardware
  • Interpreting Results - Bandwidth Saturation
  • Voice over IP (VoIP) troubleshooting
• Advanced Features
  • Command Line Arguments
  • Custom time graph intervals
  • Installer Options and MSI
  • Whois Setup
  • Running from a USB drive
• Reference
  • Options
    • General Options
    • Internet Options
    • Web Server Options
    • Windows Service Options
    • Email Settings
    • Named Configurations
    • Display Options
    • Engine Options
    • Auto-Save Options
    • Route Change Options
    • Plugins & Scripting
  • Menus
    • File Menu
    • Edit Menu
    • View Menu
    • Workspace Menu
• More Information
  • Support
  • Purchasing
  • Related and interesting links