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EZHostCheck

EZHostCheck is a tool I created in
response to the many tools that already
existed that were in my opinion overly
complex and costly. Most people have a
series of hosts they wish to monitor to
ensure their availability but can't spend a
bunch of time and resources monitoring
them. There are a number of tools which
will ping (ICMP) a host and alert when
the ping fails, however many times, the
host will respond just fine to pings, but
the service the host is providing (ie. http,
smtp,etc) will have stopped resulting in
that host no longer serving that tcp port
request (ie. 80,25,etc)

With EZHostCheck you add the hosts
you wish to monitor and specify if you
wish to monitor the host via ICMP or
check for the existence of an open TCP
port. Further you choose the level of
alerting you wish for each host. The
result is that each host entry in the
monitored list, can have a different
monitoring type (ICMP or TCP Port),
alert notifications (Play a sound file or
send an email) and status levels (you
can disable one of the hosts if you know
it will be down for a period of time so
that it will not bombard you with
alerts,etc)

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EZHostCheck requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher to be installed on your
PC prior to using EZHostCheck. If you are using Windows Vista, you already have what
you need to run EZHostCheck. If however you are running Windows XP, you need to visit
Microsoft's web site and download the .Net Framework 2.0 or higher install package.