Re: Monitoring/Power Cycling PC's with HomeVision

["Patrick Lidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@b...> wrote:
> Graham Kiff wrote:
>
> > Guys
> >
> > I would like to monitor PC's status using something like PING,
however
> > if the PC hangs and no ping response is received I want to use
> > HomeVision to send the appropriate X10 commands to cycle the
power to
> > the PC.
> > Has anyone implemented such a scenario, if so how have they done
it.
>
>
> I'm not sure ping is the right thing to use. It's possible for a PC to
> hang but still respond to pings (IIRC they're handled quite low down
in
> the OSI stack model). Could be wrong. It's been rather more years
than I
> care to remember since I went to that particular Networks lecture...
>

You are right, Jim. A classic cause of PC's locking up in this way is
running out of memory. If the PC has a web server, polling the web
server periodically is a more robust solution.

Patrick