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Email Alert system for Win 2003 Server Crashes
Hello,
Im after a way that I can recieve a email if certain servers in the domain crash. I thought their might be a program that simply ping's the servers periodically and emails you if the ping fails but I cant seem to find anything yet. Even an email alert when certain services stop running would be useful.
Does anyone know of a way to do this ?
Thanks
Im after a way that I can recieve a email if certain servers in the domain crash. I thought their might be a program that simply ping's the servers periodically and emails you if the ping fails but I cant seem to find anything yet. Even an email alert when certain services stop running would be useful.
Does anyone know of a way to do this ?
Thanks
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You need to modify the code for the SMTP address info on lines 31, 32, 33 and 34 in the code above.
Aside from that its very simple. Create a directory to store the files i.e. C:\Script\Ping_Script.
Save the code above as a vbs file i.e. pingservers.vbs in C:\Script\Ping_Script.
Create a txt files called servers.txt in C:\Script\Ping_Script. The contents of servers.txt should just include either the hostnames or IP addresses of the servers/Ip's you wish to monitor (hostnames are best): -
Server1
Server2
Server3
etc
Create a batch file or cmd file called pingservers.cmd in C:\Scripts\Ping_Script with the following command: -
cscript.exe pingservers.vbs
Setup a scheduled task to run C:\Scripts\Ping_Script\pin
cscript.exe is the Windows executable for vbs scripts cscript runs in a command line mode wscript.exe runs in a Windows/GUI mode.
Aside from that its very simple. Create a directory to store the files i.e. C:\Script\Ping_Script.
Save the code above as a vbs file i.e. pingservers.vbs in C:\Script\Ping_Script.
Create a txt files called servers.txt in C:\Script\Ping_Script. The contents of servers.txt should just include either the hostnames or IP addresses of the servers/Ip's you wish to monitor (hostnames are best): -
Server1
Server2
Server3
etc
Create a batch file or cmd file called pingservers.cmd in C:\Scripts\Ping_Script with the following command: -
cscript.exe pingservers.vbs
Setup a scheduled task to run C:\Scripts\Ping_Script\pin
cscript.exe is the Windows executable for vbs scripts cscript runs in a command line mode wscript.exe runs in a Windows/GUI mode.
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Did you mean line 38 not line 34 ?
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Opps - "Did you mean line 38 not line 31"
I cant see what im meant to change on 31 ?
I cant see what im meant to change on 31 ?
Forgot about line 38. You need to change that as well. You also need to change the email addresses: -
support@company.com
support@company.com
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Hello Mass2612 and tgtran,
I found a server monitoring program that meet my requirements however you have both helped me head in the right direction so ill award points between the 2 of you.
Thanks for the help and thanks Mass2612 for the effort on your part, I think I can also use your method aswell if I ever need to.
I found a server monitoring program that meet my requirements however you have both helped me head in the right direction so ill award points between the 2 of you.
Thanks for the help and thanks Mass2612 for the effort on your part, I think I can also use your method aswell if I ever need to.
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A couple of questions if I was to use this approach. Im not so familiar with VB scripts so I need to clarify a few questions
* You have 3 different file names mentioned: server.txt || cscript.exe || pingservers.vbs - I think I name the text you provided above and name that pingservers.vbs. With the server.txt file I assume I have to put in the IP address's or Server hostnames - but in what format ??? And lastly what is the cscript.exe file for?