Has anyone attempted to connect to What's Up from VB/C/C++? What I would like to do is write an application that will ask What's Up if a host is down. This application could be run on demand to determine if a given device or service was down. Additionally, it would be interesting to get a list of down devices.
I would like to put this data into another application that tests dependencies.
As an example, we have an application that runs at 2AM. It depends on our Oracle server being up. What I want to do is run an application at 1:55 AM and have it ask What's Up if the Orcale server is up. If it is up, I want it to run the application at 2AM. If not, do something else (to be determined.
Has anyone done this time of work? I see that What's Up has an ODBC interface, but I am not sure how to use it.
Thanks.
Richard Newton Jr.
Enterprise Network Engineer
