I know you can get utils like this :
http://www.angryziber.com/
I want to know what would be the best method to use to make a stand alone exe that would have the ability to scan an ip range on a subnet mask and would run through all of them and on each one would come up with whether its online or offline and also indicated by a red or green dot and also what the netbios name / computer or device name is similiar to the above utility
ie
Red LED / DOT is = RD
Green LED / DOT is = GD
GD | ip address | netbios / device name
RD | ip address | N/A no device is currently on this ip address
GD | ip address | Netbios name / device name
etc
I am presuming it would be WMI but not sure if there are any other methods that may be better suited ?
Also would like the option display wise to only show online devices and switch or turn this on and off.
Any info would be great including examples or suggestions.
As for what programming language - I am not sure what language to do this in if it was dot net then I would have to go for vb .net as I am not great at c sharp
Maybe C++ or Java possibly but not done too much with those languages so would need a bit more help if you suggest those languages.
Thanks
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as I said above I do know it has been done but I wanted some pointers and see how its done programatically hence the question and I wanted to do it in a language like vb dot net or something similiar.
Im asking for help not what utilities will do it.
I will look at those but am not too familiar with C++ or Java as per the question
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by: MikeDiehnPosted on 2009-01-08 at 12:12:38ID: 23329600
That's been done. Look for "fping" and "nmap"