how to ping a remote server using asp.net

[vandy]

I have created a website which is deployed on a server. Now what I want is whenever the server is down, I as an administrator should get the email telling me that right now the server is down. This check should be within every 5 minutes. How can I do this using asp.net with C#. Any suggestion would be of great help.

[exsanguination]

If you are using .NET 2.0

http://www.aspdeveloper.net/ti.....PingServer

But i'm sure there are better tools out there than that....look at some monitoring tools on the server etc.

[LP-SolidRaven]

Writing something yourself to ping a remote server isn't that hard. Get some documentation on the ICMP protocol. It's not really all that hard.
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