How to monitor remote computer by 10 minutes interval ping ?

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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
 
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Pegasus \(MVP\)

Ken Philips said:
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.
 
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f/fgeorge

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.
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

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Ken Philips said:
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.
 
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Chuck

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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Toni Van Remortel

Ken said:
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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