Watchdog

Watchdog diagram

Watchdog is a function periodically pinging to one defined IP address or URL. It's periodically checking reply from defined IP device by ping (ICMP). You can monitor physical presence of the IP device or Internet connectivity. You can use several WatchDog functions in parallel.

Based on each Watchdog state one or several RULEs can be executed. Each Rule can perform several actions (Set Output, Short Off (restart) output, Toggle output or send Alarm state to the NETIO Cloud service. Based on this Alarm state can NETIO Cloud send email to defined recipient. All Watchdogs are listed in the JSON protocol wit their current states. It can be used by 3rd party software.

Each Watchdog function state is the FAIL variable.

• Watchdog Fail = FALSE = ping answer is OK
• Watchdog Fail = TRUE = ping answer not received

Once network connection is not active the watchdog is not in operation. To detect these stater use Connectivity events in RULES.

Structure

Variable	Value	Description
target	IP / URL	Monitored address
pingInterval	int	[s] Time interval between pings
timeout	int	[s] Time waiting for answer
maxTimeouts	int	Number of failed pings required to evaluate to FAIL=TRUE
timeToReboot	int	[s] Time the Watchdog waits after announcing an error condition before starting a new cycle
maxRestarts	int	Maximum number of restarts when an error condition is declared. After this limit is reached, the WatchDog remains in an FAIL=TRUE state until the next successful ping. If set to 0, WatchDog will restart after each FAIL=TRUE is declared (This can cause indefinite restarts when the ping remains unsuccessful). If set to -1, WatchDog will NOT restart itself again. E.g. it remains in FAIL=TRUE state after it is declared.
startDelay	int	Starting delay in seconds at watchdog startup.(Enable or device power up)FW 4.0.0+

Example:

{
 "target": "192.168.101.130",
 "pingInterval": 5,
 "timeout": 1,
 "maxTimeouts": 2,
 "timeToReboot": 10,
 "maxRestarts": -1,
 "startDelay": 0
}