In C# verify the ping utility

Question

From C# console application i had open the command prompt and checked the ping utility.

string aptracommand;
aptracommand = "/C ping 10.38.2.73";
Process.Start(@"cmd",aptracommand);

Now , i need to apply a conditional statement if ping request time out then it should say "Not able to connect" and if its able to ping then need to show "Server is up"

Answer 1

You can use Ping class for this purpose. As stated below:

using System.Net.NetworkInformation;

var ping = new Ping();
var reply = ping.Send("10.38.2.73", 60 * 1000); // 1 minute time out (in ms)
if (reply.Status == IPStatus.Success)
{
   Console.WriteLine("Server is up");
}
else
{
   Console.WriteLine("Server is down");
}

You can reduce the time out value to quickly check if server is up or down.

Answer 2

use this instead

Ping pingSender = new Ping ();
byte[] data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes ("test");
int timeout = 100;
PingReply reply = pingSender.Send("127.0.0.1", timeout, data);
if (reply.Status == IPStatus.Success)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Address: {0}", reply.Address.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine("RoundTrip time: {0}", reply.RoundtripTime);
    Console.WriteLine("Time to live: {0}", reply.Options.Ttl);
}

Answer 3

I think you will need to capture the output, check for the existence of time out string and then take the decision based on that.

Capturing the Output