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vmPing (Visual Multi Ping) is a graphical ping utility for monitoring multiple hosts. Numerous host monitors can be added and removed, and each monitor dynamically resizes with the application window. Color-coding allows you to tell at a glance the status of each host. In addition to standard ICMP pings, you can also perform a TCP 'port ping', where the application continuously connects to a specified port and displays whether or not the port is open. A fast trace route utility and a basic packet generator / stress tester is also included.
Features
Quickly and easily ping multiple hosts.
Color coding allows you to instantly determine the status of each host. Green means up. Red means down. Orange means error.
Each host monitor dynamically resizes with the application's window. Take up your whole screen or reduce everything to a tiny window.
Probe options to configure the interval between each ping request (anything from 1 second to several hours) and how many seconds until it is considered timed out.
Monitor TCP ports. vmPing can continously connect to a given TCP port and will display whether the port is open or closed. Enter HOSTNAME:PORT for the hostname. For example, WebserverA:80
Option to log everything to a text file.
Option to send email alerts. Each time a host goes up or down, you will receive an email.
Favorites system. Easily save and recall sets of hosts at any time.
FAST built-in trace route utility.
A simple built-in packet generator / stress tester for flooding a specific host
Changes for v1.3.0
Most of the changes in this release are under the hood. Code has been refactored to make way for future enhancements. Please let me know if you encounter any bugs.
Here are the visible changes:
- The project now targets .NET 4.5. It previously targeted .NET 4.0.
- New DNS probe! In the hostname box, type 'D/name_or_ip' and it will perform a DNS lookup. This feature is fairly hidden at the moment, but will become more apparent in a future release. Additional probe types are planned.
- Renamed 'Change Log' to 'Status History'.
- Most dialog boxes have been converted to custom dialog boxes.
- Added an error icon to custom dialog boxes when displaying error-type messages.
- Options -> Advanced -> Don't fragment: This control is now a checkbox and it now includes an information popup that explains the option.
- Don't fragment option now defaults to off.
- The generic background logo in each probe window no longer re-appears after stopping a probe.