PingCOPA Ping and Traceroute

PingCOPA is a very useful program that will come to the help of network engineers when monitoring and diagnosing network problems occurs.

PingCOPA installs on all 32 bit Microsoft Windows operating systems (except 95). Speech is only available on systems with the Microsoft Text-to-speech engine installed.

PingCOPA allows simultaneous multiple ping and trace route sessions. Multiple windows can be opened so many subnet and IP address ranges can be monitored simultaneously.

Ping sessions can be saved so you can recall address ranges and search options easily. Results can easily be copied to the clipboard and pasted into a spreadsheet. All addresses are automatically resolved to a URL where possible, and a MAC addresses lookup feature is provided.

Traceroute provides both ICMP and UDP hops. A network calculator provides a means to determine subnet masks and ranges, and various command line tools are provided to monitor your machines network configuration.

Emails, speech and file logging can be generated at regular intervals using the snapshot facility, or when a connection state changes using the powerful alarm facility. You can associate a snapshot or alarm with any IP address and both will automatically monitor the address when it is Pinged.

Here are some key features of "PingCOPA Ping and Traceroute":

￭ PingCOPA supports ICMP ping. Simultaneous ping requests can be made on individual IP addresses and/or different ranges of IP addresses.

￭ PingCOPA can simultaneously display traceroutes to multiple destinations. Both ICMP and UDP requests are made during traceroute and the response to both at each node is displayed.

￭ PingCOPA can obtain the MAC address of IP devices on a local subnet.

￭ Speech output is provided on machines supporting the Microsoft speech interface. This enables engineers to work on network cables and routers when monitoring an IP address without having to look at the screen.

￭ Alarms can be setup to monitor specific IP addresses. These alarms can be activated when the response threshold drops below or increases beyond a specified value. Again, the alarm can result in the event being logged, emailed or spoken.

￭ Several command line utilities are provided to display the results of operating system network commands such as NetStat.

Limitations:

￭ 30 days ￭ Nag screen