how to check and display site availability

[jjuez]

Hi everyone!

I am very new at web design/programming - not to say I know nothing :-(-
I am responsible for a test network, and I have a home page with the network topology. Users can click on the different icons (PC,s, Access Points, WebCams, Routers, etc) and that would open a new page with the related object. For Instance, if they click on an Access Point, a new page is opened with the management interface of the Access Point, etc.

I am looking for a way to check the availability (whether it is up or down) of those Access Points, routers, computers, etc, and show a green icon/button, etc next to the Access point's icon on the home page if it is up, and a red one if it is down.

Can someone help me to get this started. All I am using is FrontPage.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

[ray326]

You can't just do it with Frontpage. You need to run code on the web server that does something to check the availability of each of those network nodes in order to generate an appropriate status display on your web page. The web server will need to be on the same network as the devices you're checking. Getting to the management interface of each device means YOU have to be on the same network with the devices or you have to run code on the web server to act as a proxy for your interactions.

[jjuez]

it is just a LAN with all nodes on the same network segment. So what do I do now?

[ray326]

Start by installing a web server on one of the nodes and learning about CGI, ping and maybe rsh/rexec or maybe telnet.