Sort of "ping" test for telnet and its open ports...

[mudriu]

hello world!
1st post for me here.

my boss give me a task for this week.

we have a lot of servers (45-50) and every machine has different
service. (ISS, APACHE, RDP, VNC, etc.)

I must compile a 'simple' HTML page where every row contains :
IP - machinename - ISSexistence - APACHEexistence - RDPon - VNCon - etc

I know that all service that use port can be contacted by telnet,
so i think that if i can test single telnet port i can determine if a
determinate service is running...

can anyone help me?

Andrea

[Jeffery Hicks]

I'd use a third party port scanning tool that generates HTML reports.
Here's one that might work:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/superscan.html

I wouldn't try and re-invent the wheel. Sure this might be possible
with a script but spend the time and energy, unless you want the
learning experience.

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[Si Ballenger]

Two places to start:

====ping1.vbs====

function ping(arg)
with createobject("wscript.shell")
ping = Not CBool(.run("ping -n 1 " & arg,0,true))
end with
end function

wscript.echo cstr(ping("127.0.0.1"))
wscript.echo cstr(ping("www.yahoo.com"))
wscript.echo cstr(ping("blah.blah.com"))

====ping2.vbs====

strComputer = "127.0.0.1"
'strComputer = "mycomp"
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
theCmd = "ping " & strComputer & " -n 1 -w 250"
Return = WshShell.Run(theCmd, 0, true)
if Return = 0 then
Wscript.echo "Ping successful"
else
Wscript.echo "Ping failed"
End If

[mudriu]

vbs ping is a good thing. thank you Si.

Jeff, i think that Telnet stuff is important to test the availability
of services, and usefull also for linux boxes.

any idea or command line tool to do this test?

Andrea