DR Surveillance Kit Ver 2

DR Surveillance Kit Ver 2.0 (Dated 23-11-2002)

This document (created on 23-11-2002)describes how to use the Surveillance Kit, during an outage in .

Kit Contents and Description

DR.BAT

This is a batch file, which will trigger the Surveillance tool. Internally this batch file will call the VB Script, which check the connectivity. The batch file will be running in an infinite loop and use Ctrl + Brake or Ctrl + C to stop at any time

DR .VBS

This is the heart or brain of this kit. It takes input from elemtns.txt file and ping the IP address one by one.

ELEMENTS.txt

User can add all the IP Address one per line. DR_ .VBS will pick up this and check for connectivity. This file can be edited on-line. ie: User can add or remove the entries, while the tool is running.

EEEORTRACK.BAT

This is another batch file, which will decided the way, errors are logged and decide whether the user to be altered by an audio alarm.

This file got two sections, Section 1 and 2. The first one define how the output should be formatted and the second one help the user the enable/disable audio alerts.

By default, ERRORTRACK.BAT will log the down incidents in comma separated fields. Fields are IP Address of the element, which was not responding for PING, Time, and Date. User can open this batch file and by removing the “REM” in front of the lines, as he/she wants.

SoundGen.exe

This file is created in Turbo C, which will create an audio alarm, when ever any element is not responding for PING. User can activate this by editing the Section – 2 in ERRORTRACK.BAT. ( Remove the “REM” in front of SoundGen.exe” )

How this kit works?

01. DR will trigger the script (ie : DR .VBS)

02. The script will take the IP address from the ELEMENT.TXT file and ping one by one

03. If the element is up, it prompts that it is up.

04. If it is down, it displays the same and ERRORTRACK.BAT fill be trigged.

05. ERRORTRACK.BAT will log all the entries in a log file, called Log.txt

How to use this?

01 Create a folder and copy all the files mentioned in the Kit Contents

02 Add the IP Address to be monitored.

03 Start the batch file “DR.bat” from the command prompt or by double-clicking on it.

Support:

I created this tool to checking the connectivity of a link/device/server. If time permits, I will try to answer the questions.

This tool was not tested in all the conditions. There is no grantee or assurance that this will not cause any damage. Again, I don’t have any claims that this will work under all the conditions. By using this tool, you (the user) is taking the responsibility if any damage caused. I am scared of getting pulled to any kind of debate or legal actions and so, declare again and again any bad things happens due to this tool, the user is 100% responsible for that. I don’t ask/recommend any one to use this