How can I ping an ip address remotely by ASP

Hey, Programming Guy! How can I ping an ip address remotely by ASP from an IIS server?
- Jennifer

 

Hi, Jennifer, we can use WScript.Shell to run a shell command to achieve this. Suppose the IIS have the access right for ping.exe which is located at system32 path inside windows. You can use the following VBScript by setting the id as a parameter to the destinated computer:

<%
url = Trim(Request("ip"))
if url<>"" Then
  Set objWShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 
  Set objCmd = objWShell.Exec("ping " & url) 
  strPResult = objCmd.StdOut.Readall() 
  set objCmd = nothing: Set objWShell = nothing 
 
  strStatus = "offline" 
  if InStr(strPResult,"TTL=")>0 then strStatus = "online" 
 
  response.write  strStatus 
End If
%>