Advanced Ping Tool 2

[johnisotank]

Hi all,

can anyone recommend a (ideally free ) tool that can.

ping an IP address all day and

a) Send an email if it doesn't respond for x amount of pings and
b) Send an email at the end of the day with a summary of the days ping performance.

I;m using Colasoft CoolPing at the minute which is great but doesn't do either of the above.

Thanks
John

 

[Trevoke]

That can be written pretty painlessly. What OS will run the tool? Scripting languages like Ruby are your friend ;-)

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[johnisotank]

Hi, Thanks for the reply.

it will run on xp.

Never heard of Ruby, done a bit of work in VB but thats about it.

I'll give that a go as I'm very keen to be able to create my own tools like this.

Thanks a lot
John

 

[Trevoke]

Here's a few links to get you started:

http://tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=753

http://ruby-lang.org/

http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/4

http://rubyforge.org/projects/wping/

This last one may not do exactly what you want, but at least you'll know about rubyforge

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[dberg35]

Look at this it works great.

http://www.axencesoftware.com/index.php?action=NTPro

 

[johnisotank]

Thanks very much for that. I am using dberg35's recommendation and its doing exactly what I want.

Thanks again

John