Overview
Ping-Admin is an automated web identity associated with Ping-Admin.Com.
It is used for website uptime and availability monitoring.
The documented User-Agent pattern is PingAdmin. User-Agent strings can be copied, so corroborate requests with operator documentation, network ownership, reverse DNS, or other request evidence.
Identity
- User-Agent
PingAdmin- HTTP Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PingAdmin.Ru/1.1; +http://pingadmin.ru/)- Identity Type
- User Agent
- Evidence Method
- Match the documented User-Agent pattern PingAdmin, then corroborate it with operator documentation, network ownership, reverse DNS, or other request evidence. User-Agent strings alone do not prove identity.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- Ping-Admin.Com
- Purpose
- monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- website uptime and availability monitoring
- Detection Notes
- Detect candidate Ping-Admin traffic using the documented User-Agent pattern PingAdmin. Confirm the identity with supporting evidence before enforcement.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Ping-Admin can be impersonated because its User-Agent pattern can be copied. Treat the identity as confirmed only when supporting evidence matches.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.