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An advanced ping utility – Free Download

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by Steve Wiseman on August 29, 2012 · 5 comments

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Last week Travis emailed me about an interesting utility called CryPing:

“..I use a TCP Ping utility instead of ICMP because it provide more flexibility and better results. The tool I use is CryPing..”

He is right it being more flexible.

Instead of the standard ICMP ping, you can ping an HTTP port on a web server:

HTTP Ping

One of the options I really like is the audible alarm when ping fails:

cryping -t -alarm -HTTP www.intelliadmin.com

Why do I like it? Ever try tracing cables in a messy server room?

Server Room Mess

You can fire up a ping and get behind the rack..and you will know right away if you picked the wrong cable – or the right one 🙂

Have an Exchange server, or a mail server you want to watch? Use the SMTP ping:

cryping -smtp mail.intelliadmin.com

It can also ping any other port, so if you have a custom service you want to keep tabs on, CryPing can do the job.

Here I am pinging an SSH port:

cryping -port 22 ssh.intelliadmin.com

Get it from here:

CryPing Download Page

All the command line options are described here:

CryPing Documentation

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{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Markus August 29, 2012 at 2:03 am

Great tip steve. Thanks!

2 Mike August 29, 2012 at 10:01 am

Hi Steve,

Thanks for this helpful tip. This one will save me tons of time.

Did you see that the HTTP option can also show headers? Great Stuff.

3 Steve Wiseman August 29, 2012 at 10:02 am

Hi Mike,

Did not see that option. I can think of a bunch of times I could have used this 🙂

4 mklee January 12, 2013 at 9:38 am

Awesome Tool !!!

5 Hamid April 8, 2014 at 11:38 pm

Hi Steve
Thank you So much that’s exactly what I was looking for.

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