You could exec the ping command and analyze its output using regular expressions.
regards, Ewout de Boer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Koschmann - GKT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP General" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 8:09 PM Subject: [PHP] icmp ping, check port, etc. > Hello, > > I've been looking into setting up a site to check the hosts on my network. > Basically, I want it to ping each host and tell whether it is up or not, > then also check various services (www, ftp, smtp, pop3, dns, ssh) and see > if they are available. This would check either for a connection refused or > a timeout. I am wondering first, how to do the icmp ping. Then, will > fsockopen work for both seeing if the port is open, and checking for > timeout? I'm sure I can play with fsockopen and figure it out, but I > wanted to ask and make sure it was possible first. The ping portion is > where I am stuck at. > > Any help would he greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Bryan > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
