Want to ping and telnet from an asp.net datagrid on the client side

I don't think that you can run exe on the client side due to the security settings. Maybe you can install an ActiveX on the client computer

I thought of a workaround for telnet:

telnet://www.yahoo.com

I can just do a response.redirect("telnet://" & Ipaddress) or something along those lines.  Ping doesn't seem to work from the browser though... I guess a hack would be to create a shell command like:

ping 10.1.1.1 > PingResults.txt

and try to response.redirect to that file on the server.  Definitely a hack, but I'm going to try that

Well, the ping seems to work pretty consistently (writing ping results to a text file, redirecting to it), but the telnet://IpAddress doesn't work - gives me a standard "The page cannot be displayed" and never redirects anywhere.  Any thoughts or other ideas to get that working?  I'm definitely still open to a better way to do the pinging too

Thanks!

Here's a link on how to do telnet from .Net (it's not easy)
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20815562/HIdden-telnet-session.html

here's how you can ping from the server (using code-behind), store the results to a variable and then do something with the string


               
               Process myCmd = null;
               ProcessStartInfo qOptions = new ProcessStartInfo(@"cmd.exe", @"/K ping 127.0.0.1");
               qOptions.RedirectStandardOutput = true;  // set to "true" to enable logging
               qOptions.UseShellExecute = false;  // set to false to enable logging
               
               myCmd = Process.Start(qOptions);

               StreamReader str = myCmd.StandardOutput;
               Response.Write(str.ReadToEnd());
               
               myCmd.WaitForExit();

Hey Tad,

First of all, thanks very much for the ping code.  I used:

            Path = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\PingResults.txt"  'on the server

            'capture the ip address in the row that is selected
            IpAddress = grd.SelectedItem.Cells(3).Text

            'write to a file
            PingCommand = "ping " & IpAddress & " > " & Path
            Shell(PingCommand, AppWinStyle.Hide)

            Response.Redirect(Path)

But i like yours much better...  So, using telnet://[ip address] will not work from a browser?  Man, you are not kidding - that class provided in the other article is complex!  I can't even tell if it's designed to allow an asp.net client browser to telnet to an ip or not.  

Thank you, i'm going to look for some kind of workaround for telnet...

I still can't understand why I can type telnet://ip into my browser address line and it will telnet to that, but if I do response.redirect("telnet://ip"), I get a page not found kind of thing.  

Hmm... found a way to make telnet work - <a href="telnet://www.yahoo.com">Telnet</a  

Works great...  Anybody know how to make a similar one for pinging?

Hey TAD, I get "StandardOut has not been redirected. " when I use your ping process code

Boy, what a hack this is, but it works...  I wrote a quick sp to return the data, then called it from my .net web form and pumped the output into a grid.  Both are posted below in case somebody else needs a way to do this and finds this question.  

Please give me some more detail on your ping solution TAD.  Your way is unquestionably better, but this hack will allow me to meet the deadline and I can update them later with a better fix.

Thanks


    Private Sub PopulateGrid()
        Dim cmd As SqlCommand, dr As SqlDataReader

        cmd = New SqlCommand("GetPingResults", Session("cn"))

        cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure

        cmd.Parameters.Add("@Ip", Session("Ip"))

        dr = cmd.ExecuteReader


        With grd
            .DataSource = dr
            .DataBind()
        End With


        dr.Close()


    End Sub


if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[GetPingResults]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsProcedure') = 1)
drop procedure [dbo].[GetPingResults]
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

CREATE PROCEDURE GetPingResults @Ip varchar(30)
AS

      
      DECLARE @strCmd VARCHAR(60)
      
      SELECT @strCmd = 'ping ' + @Ip
      
      EXEC Master..xp_cmdShell @strCmd


GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

I'm going to stick with my hack here, but TAD_, you comments were helpful and kind of what I ended up doing.  Thanks!

If it's a telnet component you're looking for, you could try:

http://www.whisperstream.com/software/commlib/

I dunno if they have any other components, but the telnet one they have is okay and seems to be free and not expire (always a bonus).