After upgrading to version 8 the ping monitor seems to be reporting false positives
ping.exe -n 3 -4 servername Ping request could not find host sliwfpa1t. Please check the name and try again. I removed the -4 option
C:ping.exe -n 3 servername Pinging servername [ipaddress] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from ipaddress: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=118 Reply from ipaddress: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=118 Reply from ipaddress: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=118