Rick Clark wrote:

> I too have been trying to devise something similar that would ping our
> routers and systems and page me if the ping fails. If there is anything out
>
> there like that, please let me know also.

would a command file that does pings by *name* be a little bit helpful?  we
(longs) found it very frustrating that the mpe interface (not inside of
nettool) to ping only accepts ip addresses.  jim alexander wrote a handy
little script that wraps nettool that makes pinging less
annoying.                  - d

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