Thanks Kippy, but that would be far too easy :lol:

nice one kippy ;)

Great script, I have a problem of my router loosing connection (2800) so I have added at the ping tests to the top giving:

:: Test servers on the Internet

:: Test www.zen.co.uk
PING -w 7500 212.23.2.21 |find "TTL=" && GOTO:eof

:: Test Zen's primary DNS server
PING -w 7500 212.23.3.100 |find "TTL=" && GOTO:eof

:: Test Zen's secondary DNS server
PING -w 7500 212.23.6.100 |find "TTL=" && GOTO:eof


:: Create SendKeys script
ECHO.set sh=Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")>_TEMP.VBS

:: Send Host Name
ECHO.sh.SendKeys "o 192.168.XXX.XXX" >>_TEMP.VBS
ECHO.Wscript.Sleep 1000 >>_TEMP.VBS


ECHO.sh.SendKeys "{ENTER}" >>_TEMP.vbs
ECHO.Wscript.Sleep 1000 >>_TEMP.vbs



ECHO.sh.SendKeys "xxxPASSWORDxxx" >>_TEMP.VBS
ECHO.Wscript.Sleep 1000 >>_TEMP.VBS


ECHO.sh.SendKeys "{ENTER}" >>_TEMP.vbs
ECHO.Wscript.Sleep 1000 >>_TEMP.vbs


ECHO.sh.SendKeys "sys reboot" >>_TEMP.VBS
ECHO.Wscript.Sleep 1000 >>_TEMP.VBS


ECHO.sh.SendKeys "{ENTER}" >>_TEMP.vbs
ECHO.Wscript.Sleep 1000 >>_TEMP.vbs

ECHO.sh.SendKeys "{ENTER}" >>_TEMP.vbs
ECHO.Wscript.Sleep 1000 >>_TEMP.vbs

ECHO.sh.SendKeys "{ENTER}" >>_TEMP.vbs
ECHO.Wscript.Sleep 1000 >>_TEMP.vbs

ECHO.sh.SendKeys "quit" >>_TEMP.VBS
ECHO.Wscript.Sleep 1000 >>_TEMP.VBS


ECHO.sh.SendKeys "{ENTER}" >>_TEMP.vbs
ECHO.Wscript.Sleep 1000 >>_TEMP.vbs

:: Open a telnet window - it will be the window with focus
start /I telnet.EXE


:: Run the script to send keys to telnet window
cscript//nologo _TEMP.VBS

:: Clear away workfile
DEL _TEMP.VBS

EXIT



And then run the script every 5 mins from my server. The reason for the three pings is to make sure the internet is down not just one server.

Regards


Leo

At the risk of complicating things for my own selfish ends.

Would it be possible to use the same method to force an email alert from the router if one or more pings failed but the router still has net access?

I use a static route on the Vigor to route VPN traffic through another VPN, if the Vigor router chirped to a blackberry before users I'd have a head start knowing the Vigor was not the problem but the VPN was down.

Use Blat to add in the e-mail commands you want http://www.blat.net/

Many thanks,
was not aware of blat, didn't realise I was looking for that sort of thing until now, very interesting.