Ping plotter or other reachability tool?

[spidey07]

I quickly need something that will ping at quick intervals - say 5 seconds and record any timeouts and at what time they occured.

Any ideas? I'm desparate here.

 

[MichaelD]

This is exactly what you're looking for. It'll tell you a wealth of info about each IP you're pinging and you can set the ping interval anywhere from 1 second to whatever.

Grab FREEPing for Intel off this page. I use it to keep my dynamic IP at home static.

 

[mobly99]

do following at command prompt to create a scheduled task that runs every 5 min: (works on XP - in 2K you'd have to create thru GUI)
schtasks /create /sc minute /mo 5 /tn "PingxScript" /tr c:\pinghostx.cmd

make batchfile called c:\pinghostx.cmd with the following
@echo off
ping -n 1 10.200.10.254 | find "Lost = 1" >nul
if not errorlevel 1 echo 1 ping lost at %time% %date% >>c:\pingxlog.txt

-Dave

 

[mobly99]

Damn, can't read. You said 5 seconds not 5 minutes, lowest you can set scheduled task is for 1 minute..... Sorry about that

 

[spidey07]

Thanks guys.

I set FREEping to hit a few key IP addresses. Openview does this just fine but I can't just go around telling openview to ping/poll every 5 seconds.:Q

Talk about a netNOTworking. Poll 8000 nodes every 5 seconds. meltdown.

 

[mobly99]

there is a free utility called doze , that waits a specified number of seconds and then resumes, get it here

so the you could just do this in your batch file and keep it running
@echo off
:Begin
ping -n 1 10.200.10.254 |find "Lost = 1" >nul
if not errorlevel 1 echo 1 ping lost at %time% %date% >>c:\pinglog.txt
c:\doze.exe 5
goto Begin


-Dave

-edit-
I saw you already solved your problem, but for the hell of it in the above example you could use evenetcreate command to log to the Windows application log in eventvwr
- i.e.
replace
if not errorlevel 1 echo 1 ping lost at %time% %date% >>c:\pinglog.txt
with
if not errorlevel 1 EVENTCREATE /T ERROR /ID 999 /L APPLICATION /SO PING /D "Ping to host 10.200.10.254 Failed"

 

[spidey07]

Moby99,

I haven't done any kind of programming since I was in college. I prefer to keep it that way for the rest of my natural life and eternity unless god forces me to code something in my afterlife (he better not!) 😉 It just ain't natural or healthy.

Thanks a bunch though, I'm sure anybody reading this thread will benefit.

 

[blstriker]

Yeah, FREEping is a very cool utility. Love it.