Easily launch automated Ping Tests using windows shortcuts
These are extremely useful when you are trying to check network reachability between 2 devices (or several devices), but cannot reach any of those devices yourself, and have non-technical staff onsite.
Sure, you could call the site and walk the user through opening a command prompt window; "okay, so click the windows icon down in the corner and....", then walk them through the commands; "okay now type P..I..N..G..space..."
Or... create a couple of these, place them on the desktop in advance, tell the user to just double-click them when they have an issue, and describe to you what they see.
To do this, it's really simple. First, right-click anywhere on the workstation desktop, or in a folder that you wish to place the shortcut, and choose "create shortcut".
Then, in the Create Shortcut pop-up window, where it is asking for a path, type "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /k ping 8.8.8.8", (or whatever destination you want that workstation to ping). Then click next.
These are extremely useful when you are trying to check network reachability between 2 devices (or several devices), but cannot reach any of those devices yourself, and have non-technical staff onsite.
Sure, you could call the site and walk the user through opening a command prompt window; "okay, so click the windows icon down in the corner and....", then walk them through the commands; "okay now type P..I..N..G..space..."
Or... create a couple of these, place them on the desktop in advance, tell the user to just double-click them when they have an issue, and describe to you what they see.
To do this, it's really simple. First, right-click anywhere on the workstation desktop, or in a folder that you wish to place the shortcut, and choose "create shortcut".
Then, in the Create Shortcut pop-up window, where it is asking for a path, type "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /k ping 8.8.8.8", (or whatever destination you want that workstation to ping). Then click next.
Now give the shortcut a descriptive name that the user will understand. In this example I called it "Reach Internet Test", but you could call it "Does the internet work", or "Can I Reach My Server", or "Did We Loose the Main Office Again"... You get the idea.
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Now, you have your shortcut, with a descriptive name, and all a user has to do is double-click it to get it to run.
You could even use the "-t" variable with the ping or make it a Traceroute if you want... there are lots of options to this capability...
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