Software to monitor which pc's are switched on

Simmz · 19 Jul 2006 at 15:33

Does anyone know of any programs like the one at this link at all please?

http://www.wiredinn.co.uk/activity/SmartLaunchActivity.html

The_KiD · 19 Jul 2006 at 15:36

We are using Ipswitch WhatsUp Pro, which does very similar thing and much more.

UKDTweak · 19 Jul 2006 at 15:38

We use Hyena, lets you see everything on a network/domain, and you can shutdown, vnc etc, all through one app.

Simmz · 19 Jul 2006 at 15:46

It doesn't have to be anything that can do lots of features, just a way to see which PC's are being left on at night.

Don't know if there's any freeware program that can do this

?

Wyvern971 · 19 Jul 2006 at 16:42

Look@Lan at a guess, not sure about loggin features though

Datamonkey · 19 Jul 2006 at 17:17

do what my dad used to do,

ping my machine lol

then if it was on, do a net send telling me to turn the &^*%$%^& computer off an get to bed lol.

He would also put summat along the lines of, if i have to come up there lol

used to make me an my brother chuckle.

obviously only works if you know the ip and on a static addresses otherwise it would be a diff one each time lol

JayMax · 20 Jul 2006 at 13:21

Simmz said:
It doesn't have to be anything that can do lots of features, just a way to see which PC's are being left on at night.

Don't know if there's any freeware program that can do this ?

Have a look at netping - it pulls through system uptime so you can see what machines have been on overnight.

Raumarik · 20 Jul 2006 at 13:32

Wyvern971 said:
Look@Lan at a guess, not sure about loggin features though

It can log whats on and gather information as well, I found it hammered the network though

nam · 20 Jul 2006 at 21:51

hostmonitor

Simmz said:
Does anyone know of any programs like the one at this link at all please?

http://www.wiredinn.co.uk/activity/SmartLaunchActivity.html

Duke · 20 Jul 2006 at 21:57

Datamonkey said:
obviously only works if you know the ip and on a static addresses otherwise it would be a diff one each time lol

You can send to a 'computer name' as well, just rename it to something you can remember

Al Vallario · 20 Jul 2006 at 22:00

Datamonkey said:
do what my dad used to do,

ping my machine lol

then if it was on, do a net send telling me to turn the &^*%$%^& computer off an get to bed lol.

He would also put summat along the lines of, if i have to come up there lol

Your dad is so cool

But yes, I should think it would be easy to write a short script which attempts to ping all the machines on the network, and returns the IP's of which ones are on - cross-reference with a list of which machine the IP relates to and you're sorted. It shouldn't be too hard to grab this data (XML, perhaps?) and use a web programming language such as PHP to display the results in a user-friendly format as in the original link

Andyt_uk · 21 Jul 2006 at 13:05

Al Vallario said:
Your dad is so cool

But yes, I should think it would be easy to write a short script which attempts to ping all the machines on the network, and returns the IP's of which ones are on - cross-reference with a list of which machine the IP relates to and you're sorted. It shouldn't be too hard to grab this data (XML, perhaps?) and use a web programming language such as PHP to display the results in a user-friendly format as in the original link

When i worked at a school as an IT tech I wrote a simple vbscript that pinged machines and turned them off if they responded. It also logged the names and address of the machines that had been left on in an excel doc. Shall try and dig it out if i've still got it.

Mind you, it wouldn't be too difficult to knock up something similar in PHP which would probably look nicer. You could get it to connect to your AD as well if your using it to get the list of PC's to check