Ping multi IP address

[James]

I would like to create a form that I can type in IP address and send a
automated ping and see the reply . I am try to set up a simple montoring
database to where I can input some IP address and the database will display
IP "A" is ok , IP "B" is offline and so forth ....can anyone help ...thanks .

 

[Steven Sutton]

James,

I can't help you with your actual Access question but if you just need a
program that can can scan IP addresses, I use one called IP Tools (home page
www.ks-soft.net/ip-tools.eng/index.htm) that not only scans IP addresses but
also NetBIOS names. The program has quite a few network utilities and might
do what you want. Hope this helps.

Steven

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

I would like to create a form that I can type in IP address and send a
automated ping and see the reply . I am try to set up a simple montoring
database to where I can input some IP address and the database will display
IP "A" is ok , IP "B" is offline and so forth ....can anyone help ...thanks .

Most Visual Basic API calls work just fine in Access. My favourite
site for such is vbnet.mvps.org.

Tony
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[James]

Thanks for reply , I tried that site ( ping machine with IP )and came up with
some error's .

 

[Pieter Wijnen]

http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/network/ipaddress.htm

Pieter

 

[James]

Thanks , I guess this might be over my head , I thought there might be some
simple code ( control array from vbnet code stumped me )

 

[Dave_TakaraCo]

If you have VS2008 you can creat a shared add-in (basically a .dll for office
including access)

do this:

Public Function pingme(ByVal addr As String) As Boolean
If My.Computer.Network.Ping(addr, 1000) Then
Return True
Else
Return False
End If
End Function

and then class from access.

I have a whole set of communication functions in a .dll that I use from
access all the time. (Checks the health of my sql server etc...)

dave