Tutorials / Monitor Your SMB Network in Under an Ho…
Small businesses do not need a Zabbix cluster to know whether the office router is alive. They need one tool that just works, runs on a machine they already own, and tells them “something is down” on their phone — without a five-figure annual contract.
That is exactly the gap PingTick fills. It is a single executable — no installer, no database to configure, no dependencies. This tutorial gets you from zero to a monitored network in about 45 minutes.
Copy the executable anywhere (e.g. C:\PingTick\) and double-click it. PingTick:
http://localhost:<port>.
No services to start, no config files to edit, no PATH to set. If you want it silent, right-click the system tray icon and it runs as a background daemon.
In the dashboard, add your first monitor. PingTick supports five check types — start with these three:
| Check | What it does | Example |
|---|---|---|
| ICMP Ping | Host reachability + latency + TTL | 192.168.1.1 — the office router |
| TCP Port | Is a service actually listening? | 192.168.1.20:3306 — MySQL server |
| SSL/TLS | Certificate expiry — days left | mail.example.com |
Ping is a good start, but TCP port checks catch the real outages — a server can be “up” and its database down. Monitor ports for anything that has one.
Want network traffic visibility? Enable SNMP on a managed switch or router and add it as an SNMP monitor — PingTick will chart throughput per interface. For Windows servers, the WMI monitor reports active network interfaces and byte counters without any agent.
@BotFather and copy the token.getUpdates).That is it. Now when the router stops answering, you get a message on your phone — and when it comes back, another one. Email works the same way via SMTP.
Let it run for a day, then open Reports:
Hide PingTick in the system tray. It will keep polling every few seconds, storing history locally in SQLite, and alerting only when something actually changes. Check the dashboard when you need to, not because you feel you have to.
Zero. PingTick is provided by Core Mtaalam as proprietary freeware for SMBs and MSPs. If you would rather have us deploy and manage it for you, that is a service we offer — but the tool itself is yours to run.
One honest caveat: the monitoring box itself should have a UPS. There is something embarrassing about your outage-monitoring tool going down in the same outage.
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