ICMP packets are sent to the host according to RFC 792. This is just a standard echo via UDP, a connectionless, low overhead socket.

Host - The fully qualified domain name or IP address of the server to be tested.

Monitor Description (optional) - Whatever you want to call this monitored service to uniquely identify it from the others.

Max. Timeout (optional) - The maximum number of seconds that our "Bees" will wait for a connection or to receive data, before the test is considered a failure.

Paranoid Mode (optional) - When enabled, our system will notify you if it finds any hiccups with the particular services that this feature is enabled on. Be careful, if the service you set paranoid on is quirky, you will get a lot of alerts!