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Old March 23rd, 2007 Top | #1

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Ok i want to ping about 20 static ips (one or two at a time) and display if any did not respond or dropped a packet.. Any ideas? I was thinking about VB.net but i dont know how to do a ping in it and return a result that i can apply to logic?

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I found this and i think its a step in the right direction.. hehe
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why reinvent the wheel? There are are a ton of freeware/shareware/payware products out there to do simple system availability monitoring (http://www.programurl.com/software/ping-monitor.htm)
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I will look at them, However Id like to write it myself for a learning experience and to present to my boss as something that I made. hehe
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You will just create a bad re-implementation of something that has been perfected over the years. The wheel.

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in its simplest form although i agree there are far too many products out there that do this .... (see the prtg website they have an uptime monitor).

ping hostname > logfile.txt

will save the results in a logfile for you to peruse ... you could then use logfile parser (microsoft) .... to read the results where there were errors only.

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yep agree with all the above, plus it will reinforce the reason why the boss employed you when you reply with

"yeh thats an easy one, i will run a ping command and instruct it to save to a log file, then use the microsoft logfile parser to only show errors for the dead ip's, shouldn't take me more than an hour to setup a batch script to pull it off"

then spend 55 mins surfing where ever as you already set it up today
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I have to aggree also , there is no point in trying to reinvent anything, unless you really know what you want ahead of time and can perfect something that is all ready there, I see some young hotshots trying to impress by repacking MS updates in a wrapper or Sun Java and some how trying to get credit for work done by others , they come off as just plain stupid .

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eh making a batch file using this command really has done everything i need

I just add every static ip we have in regards to switches and AP's

Code:
ping -n 1 192.168.1.100

pause
Doest exactly what i need (measures connectivity of the device)
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