I'm creating an application for an Intranet that, among other things, is
supposed to check to see if particular hosts are online, and if so, what
their IP address is. Anyone know how I can accomplish this? I tried
using exec(host $host); (where $host is the hostname) and while this
gets the IP
Jason Giangrande wrote:
I'm creating an application for an Intranet that, among other things, is
supposed to check to see if particular hosts are online, and if so, what
their IP address is. Anyone know how I can accomplish this? I tried
using exec(host $host); (where $host is the hostname) and
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 12:20, Adam Maas wrote:
why not try:
passthru(ping $host);
Adam
That still takes a little while to execute on multiple hosts, Plus I
need to modify the output of the command to print just the IP address
and discard the rest of the output.
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Jason Giangrande
Adam Maas wrote:
Jason Giangrande wrote:
I'm creating an application for an Intranet that, among other things, is
supposed to check to see if particular hosts are online, and if so, what
their IP address is. Anyone know how I can accomplish this? I tried
using exec(host $host); (where $host is
Jason --
...and then Jason Giangrande said...
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% I'm creating an application for an Intranet that, among other things, is
% supposed to check to see if particular hosts are online, and if so, what
% their IP address is. Anyone know how I can accomplish this? I tried
...
% a while to execute
Jason Giangrande said:
command (ping -c 1 $host), and while I could get that to work, since it
returns non-zero status if the host can not be contacted, it takes quite
a while to execute for even a few hosts at once.
fping may help.
Running a background job that just monitors ping status and
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 12:32, David T-G wrote:
3) At the very least, cut your ping timeout down to the smallest
acceptable; in general, a full second is plenty of time to get nearly
anywhere on your continent (ain't it great? :-) and so your intranet
should be more than happy with that
This may be OT but have you looked at Netsaint (http://www.netsaint.org/ and
http://www.netsaint.org/indexold.php), now called Nagios
(http://www.nagios.org/) by the looks of it. Note: It's not written in PHP from what I
remember. You may be able to get some ideas from it or even use
it. I've
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