aping

The aping command is the APPN version of the ping utility and allows a management application to check the communications path from a local LU to a remote LU in the network.

Instead of using the aping command, you can use the APING program described in IBM Communications Server for Data Center Deployment on AIX or Linux APPC Application Suite User's Guide.

CS Linux aping is implemented using an internally-defined APPC TP. This TP sends data to the partner LU, and optionally receives data from the partner LU. If the TP completes successfully, aping returns information about the time taken to allocate a conversation to the partner LU and to send and receive data.

This command is intended for checking the path to an LU on a remote node. Using aping to check communications with a partner LU on the local node will impact the performance of other programs on the local computer, and is not recommended.

This command must be issued to a running node.