As for the Up and Down field, maybe have the results create a text file on
the server then create a Menu of Menu Type of File to access the text file.
Then connect the menu to a character field.

Steve


On 1/30/08, William H. Will Du Chene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Why not...
>
> 1.) Develop a form that contains the ip address, or host name of the
> machine that you want to ping.
> 2.) Develop a view form with a table field that queries the host form.
> 3.) Develop a simple Perl script and place it on your server to be run via
> an escalation every X minutes.
>
> The Perl script would then use the ARSPerl module to open up the host form
> within the AR System and retrieve a list of the hosts that it needs to
> contact. It would then cycle through each of the servers therein, and
> update the corrosponding server's host record within the AR System. The
> Perl script could use either one of the Net modules, or simply be a
> wrapper for the ping utility. Maybe you could even do something a bit more
> classy, such as open a connection to the any of the services that might be
> on the server and verify that they are available (for example, if this
> server is an IMAP server, your script could access an account, or if the
> server is a database server, it could create a row in a test table &
> database) and collect the delta for the amount of time that the operation
> took and place that into the host record.
>
> From your control panel form, use an active link that updates every X time
> period. The idea being that any servers that are down, or services that
> would be unavailable would be visible within the control panel. Of course,
> the accuracy is limited by the delta in time that is present between the
> last run time of the script and the refresh on the control panel, but it
> should work fine for the average stuff. Besides, if it's a major network
> or service outage, the customers will be on the phone anyway...
>
> Just a thought...
>
>
>
>
> --
>
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Steven Pataray
Senior Analyst, Help Desk
Bank of Hawaii
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