How to monitor remote computer by 10 minutes interval ping ?

5 Dec 2006 1:29 PM

Ken Philips

I would like to monitor if a computer in Internet with certain IP adress
is alive or currently shutdown/turned off. For that I am searching for a small local
tool which pings (e.g. every 10 minutes) this IP adress and give me
a popup when this IP is new available or if it is not available any more.

Does someone know such a tool (with GUI popup info dialog - not only a
command line tool/batch script).

Ken

5 Dec 2006 1:57 PM

Pegasus (MVP)

"Ken Philips" <ke***@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:45757426$0$30323$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net...
> I would like to monitor if a computer in Internet with certain IP adress
> is alive or currently shutdown/turned off. For that I am searching for a
small local
> tool which pings (e.g. every 10 minutes) this IP adress and give me
> a popup when this IP is new available or if it is not available any more.
>
> Does someone know such a tool (with GUI popup info dialog - not only a
> command line tool/batch script).
>
> Ken
>

You could use the Task Scheduler to invoke this batch file
once every 10 minutes:

L1 @echo off
L2 set IP=192.168.33.168
L3 if exist "%temp%\Previous.bat" (call "%temp%\Previous.bat" ) else (set
prev=xxx)
L4
L5 ping %IP% | find /i "bytes=" > nul
L6 if %ErrorLevel% EQU 0 (set status=used) else (set status=free)
L7 if %status% NEQ %prev% net send %ComputerName% "%IP% is now %status%"
L8 echo set prev=%status% > "%temp%\Previous.bat"

Make sure that the messenger service runs on your PC.

5 Dec 2006 2:04 PM

f/fgeorge

On 05 Dec 2006 13:29:11 GMT, ke***@yahoo.ca (Ken Philips) wrote:

>I would like to monitor if a computer in Internet with certain IP adress
>is alive or currently shutdown/turned off. For that I am searching for a small local
>tool which pings (e.g. every 10 minutes) this IP adress and give me
>a popup when this IP is new available or if it is not available any more.
>
>Does someone know such a tool (with GUI popup info dialog - not only a
>command line tool/batch script).
>
>Ken

I use the program lookatlan, it can be gotten here
www.filetransit.com/files.php?name=lookatlan

the website is www.lookatlan.com but it seems to be down.
Do a google search on lookatlan and it will come up.

5 Dec 2006 2:49 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

In news:45757426$0$30323$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net,

Ken Philips <ke***@yahoo.ca> typed:

> I would like to monitor if a computer in Internet with certain IP
> adress
> is alive or currently shutdown/turned off. For that I am searching
> for a small local tool which pings (e.g. every 10 minutes) this IP
> adress and give me
> a popup when this IP is new available or if it is not available any
> more.
>
> Does someone know such a tool (with GUI popup info dialog - not only a
> command line tool/batch script).
>
> Ken

Check out ServersAlive.

5 Dec 2006 2:52 PM

Chuck

On 05 Dec 2006 13:29:11 GMT, ke***@yahoo.ca (Ken Philips) wrote:

>I would like to monitor if a computer in Internet with certain IP adress
>is alive or currently shutdown/turned off. For that I am searching for a small local
>tool which pings (e.g. every 10 minutes) this IP adress and give me
>a popup when this IP is new available or if it is not available any more.
>
>Does someone know such a tool (with GUI popup info dialog - not only a
>command line tool/batch script).
>
>Ken

Ken,

PingPlotter will do this, and more.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/09/diagnosing-network-problems-using.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/09/diagnosing-network-problems-using.html

Also, The Dude (yes, what a name) will monitor and popup alerts.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/essential-tools-for-desktop-and.html#Mikrotek>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/essential-tools-for-desktop-and.html#Mikrotek

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Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
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actual address pchuck mvps org.

7 Dec 2006 8:40 AM

Toni Van Remortel

Ken Philips wrote:

> I would like to monitor if a computer in Internet with certain IP adress
> is alive or currently shutdown/turned off. For that I am searching for a
> small local tool which pings (e.g. every 10 minutes) this IP adress and
> give me a popup when this IP is new available or if it is not available
> any more.
>
> Does someone know such a tool (with GUI popup info dialog - not only a
> command line tool/batch script).

Hmm, I do know one that runs on any *nix distro: Nagios.
It can report through WinPopup.

Not really what you look for, but it can do it.

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Toni Van Remortel