Robert,

     I'm not sure what you're asking, but you can also use the rping
command in Netview to do that:

usage: rping [-d] [-c community] [-n count] [-s size] [-t timeout] [from]
to
     -d    Dump PDUs to standard output.
     -c    Specify Community name for the request.
     -n    Specify the number of ICMP echo packets that get transmitted.
     -s    Specify size of the request.
     -t    Specify the request timeout in 1/10th of seconds.

This doesn't work for Cisco routers. For those, you can use a script from
Cisco that uses the cisco ping MIB.

I don't think you can do it from a host different that the network
management station.

I hope that helps.


Juan Echevarría López
AT&T Global Network Services
Internet: jechevarria AT att DOT com


"M Robert Prakash" <robertprakash AT chennai.tcs.co DOT in> on 11/05/2000 
09:14:35

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cc:    (bcc: Juan Echevarria Lopez/Spain/IBM)
Subject:  [NV-L] Ping between two Network objects!!

Hi

I am able to ping to any machine using the Ping utility from my Management
station(I am using Netview 5.1.1 for NT).Can I ping between two machines
directly without involving the Management Station,just to check the
connectivity
between those two machines.

Thanks and Regards

Robert


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