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Call Command Line Program from NT Web Se

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I would like to call a command line utility (Oracle’s tnsping) from a web page on a WindowsNT server. This is merely a way to give users a feel for whether the database is up and running and how responsive it is.

Any ideas on how to call a command line function and redirect the response back to a web page? I would prefer server side only code, but can live with some client side. I could probably do a COM module, but was hoping for something simpler.

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Call Command Line Program from NT Web Se

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You can use AspExec from http://serverobjects.com/products.htm#free

And use page Some_Title.asp with following content:

— Header —
<% Set Executor=Server.CreateObject("ASPExec.Execute") Executor.Application = "tnsping" strResult = Executor.ExecuteDosApp Response.Write " tnsping returned : " & strResult %>
— Footer —

Or, may be you can execute .bat-file on your server as CGI program.

Call Command Line Program from NT Web Se

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Thanks, this looks exactly like what I was looking for.

– Wayne

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