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Hello all,

I was wondering if you can use Opus PRO 04 to PING to a host....

It would be extremely useful to me...!

Of course there is no command to do this, but maybe someone has a workaround or idea that I could use to ping a host.

The useful thing here would be to receive the result of the ping somehow in Opus so that the application can do different things i.e. if the host is up to show a green light or if the host is not responding to show a red light.

Although I think it is unlikely, I posted the message hoping that someone may have a bright idea...

Thanks in advance

Dennis Zervas

Dennis,

You can't ping directly from Opus, You could launch a ping but you would lose all the data.

My advice would be to write a batch file with the line:

ping http://www.host.com >textfile.txt


and launch it from Opus.

This will create a file called textfile.txt which will contain the returned ping data as below:




You can then use read text file actions to read the above information and set your green or red lights.


Hope this helps

Regards

Brenden Knifton

Dear Brenden,

many thanks, this is great, I am starting as soon as I read it!

Regards
Dennis