Hi Zabbix devs,

Recently had to offload the ICMP Ping from simple checks to a little bash script for the following reason. 

• target - the host IP or DNS name;
• packets - the number of packets;
• interval - the time between successive packets in milliseconds;
• size - the packet size in bytes;
• timeout - the timeout in milliseconds;
• options - used for allowing redirect: if empty (default value), redirected responses are treated as target host down; if set to allow_redirect, redirected responses are treated as target host up.

Zabbix includes the number of packets sent, but it doesn't include a maximum number of packets sent. I'd like to be able to send 1 packet, if it succeeds stop there up to a maximum of X.

This is to work with dormant devices and reduce the number of packets (bytes) sent over costly wireless connections.