Heartbeat

[Bozo]

I am looking for a program that can poll multiple computers on a network to see if they are 'alive'. A simple ping program would do but the ones I've found must be manually run. I need something that can be run from scheduled task and send an alarm via MS messenger service.

Thanks,
Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[Mercutio]

Er... the Windows Event Management service can do that.

 

[Mercutio]

Try setting an Alert for \\servername using the ICMP counter Messages/sec and setting the default action for "under 1" to "Send a Mesasge To". The only down side to that is you'll need the Messenger Service turned on to receive the alerts. It can also send an email. Given about half a second I could probably come up with a bat file to send a message through MSNim.

 

[Bozo]

Merc,
Pardon my dumbness, but you completely lost me.

Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[Mercutio]

Go to Control Panel, Administrative tools, Performance.
Open Alerts, right click and choose New Alert.

You can configure alerts for any computer on your LAN, via its UNC name (\\servername). There are all kind of counters you can track and there you can define any Action based on an over/under of those counters, that you can figure out how to write as a batch file or a vbscript (or whatever else is executable on your windows machines).

 

[Bozo]

http://www.tools4ever.com/products/free/

So simple, even a Bozo can figure it out


Bozo :mrgrn: