ColdFusion Ping 2

[Signit]

I need to do a ping from ColdFusion. I am running ColdFusion MX 6.1. Is there a way to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[silverspecv]

Here is a little script I use internally after our occassional crappy power failures.. It is obviously somewhat tailored to my environment, such as the IP address range, and the fact that ping.exe is located in c:\winnt\system32 directory (windows 2000), and all I'm looking for is success or failure.. you could parse other info out of the file or use hostnames instead of ip addresses.. enjoy

<cfset dir=getdirectoryfrompath(getcurrenttemplatepath())>

<table>
<cfloop from="254" to="200" index="lp" step="-1">
	<cfset ip="10.1.1.#lp#">
	<cfset filename="10.1.1.#numberformat(lp,"000")#.txt">
	<cfexecute name="c:\winnt\system32\ping.exe" arguments="#ip# -n 1" timeout="5" outputfile="#dir##filename#"></cfexecute>
	<cffile action="READ" file="#dir##filename#" variable="txt">
	<tr>
		<td><cfoutput>#ip#</cfoutput></td>
		<td>
			<cfif txt contains "Reply from #ip#">
				SUCCESS
			<cfelseif txt contains "Request timed out.">
				-failed-
			<cfelse>
				<font color="Red">unknown</font>
			</cfif>
		</td>
	</tr>
</cfloop>
</table>

 

[TruthInSatire]

I haven't tested it, but good post.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

 

[Signit]

That is a pretty slick way of doing things. I am working on a solaris server so the syntax will be slightly different, but thanks for the help!