How to ping ip address from Web page code?

[Wynnefield]

I am designing a simple Web page to display the availability of a couple of dozen servers; however, I am not quite sure of the best method to "ping the ip address" from within a Web page's code and capture the status to display on the page.

I suspect I will need to use some sort of script to perform this task and not sure if javascript will be the most efficient. We have a number of ASP and ASP.NET sites, and I would like to keep this one as simple as possible and avoid server-side scripting if at all feasible. I may fill a small database with the server ip addresses and loop through the servers while pinging for availability and/or status.

I would like to display a small indicator next to each ip address as a red/yellow/green box to indicate the health of the server. Green = Available; Yellow = Unsure response; and Red = No response. Does this make sense?

I appreciate your feedback and thank you in advance for your input and/or ideas.

[harrierdh]

This can't be done from javascript. If it could be it would make for some very happy hackers.

[Wynnefield]

Thank you for the feedback. I received a PHP snippet from a member of another forum; however, I am not too anxious about introducing another scripting language into our production environment.

[ReverseInternet]

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[jeeva]

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