[funkym]

Is there any "ping application" or BlackBerry built-in function available that can ping an IP address?

[GT5L]

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Built in. On 8320 options-wifi-diag-ping

[kings0r]

Haha, great. I didn't know that yet.

[funkym]

Great! Thanks!

That worked really nice. The BlackBerry is such a cool device

[GT5L]

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I'm glad I was able to help.

[Ulukia]

Is there an app that ties in both ping and port scan monitoring with alerting functions?

[Ulukia]

Bump... still looking for something like this.

[rivviepop]

So you basically want a mini version of Nagios on your device? I assume that's what you're trying to say, you want to monitor a port for it's availability (SSH, HTTP, etc.) and alert you if it goes offline. That's what we run Nagios on a generic Linux box for, mine emails me once a critical threshold is reached.... I'm not sure why you'd want your device to be doing all this work.

[Ulukia]

Just seeing if its in the realm of reality. Though at this point, it doesn't matter anymore.

[rivviepop]

Originally Posted by Ulukia

Just seeing if its in the realm of reality. Though at this point, it doesn't matter anymore.

Oh I completely think it's within the realm of reality - all you would need is a J2ME coder to cook it up for you, I don't see any reason that it couldn't be done technically. The only limitation is that not all ports are open in BIS, you could only monitor a set of standard ones. (so if you moved your SSH to port 321 I think you'd need to use TCPIP/Wifi/BES, e.g.)

See this post from Paul @ Rove Mobile regarding the BIS ports:
http://www.blackberryforums.com/afte...tml#post871447

[Ulukia]

Cool. Actually I ended up with an online option with IPCheck.

[funkym]

A fully featured Nagios might be a nice gimmick