Ping utility

[generic]

My organization has branches in different districts. We have found some programs for network monitoring but they have no all functions which we need. We need program with the following functionality:
1. Be able operate as Windows Service.
2. Be able ping hosts in quantity simultaneously.
3. It is desirable that hosts could be formed in lists on groups.
4. Be able to set own ping parameters for each host.
5. The program has to give a sound signal when host does not meet PING command.
6. The program has to keep log with date and time when host stops to meet PING command.
7. The program has to be able to give signals when time of ping response is more than specified meaning.

[Lourdes]

Have you looked into hiring someone to develop this? Shouldn't be difficult or expensive.

[chrestomanci]

Have you looked into hiring someone to develop this? Shouldn't be difficult or expensive.

Yes, sounds like about half a days work in a scripting language like perl or python. May be a couple of days if you want docs and a friendly UI.

Chances are there will be people in your organization that would be quite capable of writing something like this, so I would ask around, starting with anyone who uses Linux or any flavor of commercial unix.

[Disturbedguy]

SolarWinds is the program you need to be honest, although it doesnt do the sound thing.

Yes, sounds like about half a days work in a scripting language like perl or python. May be a couple of days if you want docs and a friendly UI.

Chances are there will be people in your organization that would be quite capable of writing something like this, so I would ask around, starting with anyone who uses Linux or any flavor of commercial unix.

If there are routers involved, then the language used and the difficulty to write the application would vary, as it would depend on the router software version, as an example Juniper based devices have the software on them written differently to others such as Cisco (Cisco and such meet the set standard, Juniper use there own) therefore with SolarWinds, the Juniper devices dont recognise/ respond to SNMP requests correctly/ at all and id suspect someone writing their own application could struggle.

SolarWinds is an all in one package, that even offers pretty graphs for you to look at and stores histroical data.

[Splash]

He's not looking for SNMP though, he's looking for ICMP, and so long as all the network hardware is configured to respond to ICMP PING it shouldn't matter what language is used.