Health Check Tools

There are a number of ways to monitor and check the health of your Haivision solution. You'll find built-in commands and free third-party software can be very useful in gauging speed, bandwidths, and network transit delays.

Haivision highly recommends running a Trace Route to determine the quality and latency of your connection. Some Internet Service Providers lease lines and receive revenue to piggyback onto other networks, which can cause latency and additional “hops” for your signal to reach the CDN entry point.

Console UI Terminal Commands

When monitoring a device, enter these commands in the Console UI terminal window.

SpeedTest

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python -

Persistent TraceRoute (Over Time)

/sbin/mtr <address of external server>

For example:

/sbin/mtr 10.67.6.143

or

/sbin/mtr server.haivision.com

Sample of the variety of tools available.

Third-Party Tools

SpeedOf.Me – a speed test tool.
speedtest.net – a less realistic speed test than SpeedOf.Me.
Ping Plotter – graphs route between localhost and remote server (available for PC and Mac).