Server Ping

[varnix]

I am attempting to ping one of my servers from my CF script. I am using the CFExecute command as follows:


cfexecute
name="ping.exe"
arguments="ipaddress"


The output comes on the screen - but it is all jumbled. Is there any way to either format the output (I've tried using outputfile option but I haven't been able to include the data file) - or is there a way to obtain some sort of result in a different manner.

We're trying to build an online system that our operations staff can monitor the servers from.

Thanks!

 

[GunJack]

Hey Varnix,

I suspect you just need to change the DOS based line breaks to HTML <br> tags. You can either put <pre></pre> tags around the output to make it display correctly or just do a #replace(myOutput,#chr(10)#,&quot;<br>&quot;,&quot;all&quot# to convert to html.

Hope this helps,
GJ

 

[tleish]

When setting up a monitoring system, I'd recommend going further than just ping. Often times when a webserver goes down, you can still ping it, but it doesn't serve up any pages. Ping can be a way to check to see if the server is up or not, but it often doesn't tell.

I'd recommend using something like:

=== START CODE EXAMPLE ===
<cftry>
<cfhttp url=&quot;ipaddress&quot;
timeout=&quot;10&quot;
throwonerror=&quot;Yes&quot;/>

<cfset vStatusCode = cfhttp.statuscode>

<cfcatch type=&quot;COM.Allaire.ColdFusion.HTTPFailure&quot;>
<cfset vStatusCode = &quot;Can't Connect&quot;>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>

<cfoutput>
#variables.vStatusCode#
</cfoutput>
=== END CODE EXAMPLE === - tleish

 

[varnix]

I'm batting about .10 with this one, I think its something with the configuration of some of our servers though.

It worked great on my Linux web server, but my Coldfusion box I received a 401 error message, in another box I get a 403 forbidden error.

But, all of that aside - I'd also like to use this for monitoring other servers that are not web servers. Such as a few AIX services PC's and a couple of Compaq Alphas.

Any suggestion?

 

[tleish]

One way is to communicate to the TCP-IP ports. A great program for this is:

TCPClient

http://www.intrafoundation.com/tcpclient.html

- tleish