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Script to ping an IP and send an email when ping returns consecutive timeouts or high timeout

Asked by HopperSI in Windows Batch Scripting, VB Script

Tags: VBScript

I would like a vbscript to ping an IP at certain time intervals (seconds ideally) and email me if the pings timeout. So far I have gotten the following code which runs the windows ping.exe, but the script completes and sends an email before the ping times out. The problem is in the switch I have on the ping command as you'll see below.

I am using this to ping a router on the other side of a VPN, so I will receive an email when the VPN disconnects. A combination vbscript and batch file would work as well.Start Free Trial

         
           
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             Rem Runs Ping command, outputs results to text file.
 
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
strComputer = "."
 
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * From Win32_LogicalDisk Where DriveType = 3")
 
For Each objItem in colItems
    strDriveLetter = objItem.DeviceID 
    strCommand = "ping 192.xxx.x.xxx -w 999"
    
    Set objExecObject = objShell.Exec(strCommand)
    Do While Not objExecObject.StdOut.AtEndOfStream
        strResults = objExecObject.StdOut.ReadAll()
    Loop
 
    strText = strText & strResults
Next
 
Rem Sends email alert
 
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("C:\PingFailed.txt")
objFile.Write strText
objFile.Close
 
Set objEmail = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
 
objEmail.From = "VPN_Dissconnect@domain.com"
objEmail.To = "admin@domain.com"
objEmail.Subject = "VPN from office to RemoteSite just disconnected" 
objEmail.Textbody = "The ping time from the Office to RemoteSite was just over 999ms, indicating the VPN probably disconnected." & strDate
objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item _
    ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item _
    ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = _
        "SMTP_server_name" 
objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item _
    ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Update
objEmail.Send
 
Rem Renames text file with time and date

           
         

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Script to ping an IP and send an email when ping returns consecutive timeouts or high timeout

Asked by HopperSI in Windows Batch Scripting, VB Script

Tags: VBScript

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