Argent Rules vary widely, some perform complex and involved tests requiring considerable resources

For example, System File Rules use considerable resources

In contrast, the System Down Rules simply determine if a server’s network card or a device is online

To just see if the server’s network card or device is online, then you can use Lightweight Ping option

The Lightweight Ping, as the name suggests, has been engineered to very both fast and very low on resources

The shortest interval for the Lightweight Ping is one second

But…

Remember: all pings only go to the low-level physical layer of TCP/IP – there may be a blue screen on the W200x server, but all pings return a valid status

To correctly check the actual operating system is running correctly, a ping should not be used, rather the more powerful options that check the health of the operating system should be used