Hey Ed,
Here's what we'll do. Assuming you have access to the ever ample PHP, crontabs and access to
shell_exec(), we'll begin.
The following is a script that will run the ping, and return a result.
PHP Code:
<?php
/*
Script written by Steve Castle (http://www.stscac.com)
Modified from http://shat.net/php/nqt/nqt.php.txt
For the purpose of this example, the filename of this file (PHP_SELF) will be named ping.php and located in server path erver/path/to/script/
The "$domain" variable is the domain name you are going to be checking. Use the domain name without the protocol.
(Good = namepros.com, Bad = http://www.namepros.com)
*/
$domain = "namepros.com";
function message($msg){
echo "<font face=\"verdana,arial\" size=1>$msg</font>";
flush();
}
function ping($domain){
message("<p><b>Ping Results:</b><blockquote>");
if (! $msg .= trim(nl2br(`ping -c5 '$domain'`))) #bugfix
$msg .= "Ping failed. Host may not be active.";
$msg .= "</blockquote></p>";
message($msg);
}
ping($domain);
?>
The following is the crontab that needs to be added to your server, so the PHP script above can be run every 1/2 hour.
Code:
30 * * * * server/path/to/script/ping.php
This only checks the results every 30 minutes. To report the results, you would have to email them or add them to a database.
Hope this starts you off in the right direction.
Cheers
!
-Steve
09-17-2005, 11:53 AM
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