Coming into today’s line up is one of my favorites, created by NirSoft and used anytime a client is having issues with their uplink, PingInfoView.exe. Allowing for a quick and easy way to set up a ping test to multiple addresses in one go.
Above is the first screen you’ll be greeted by when you open up the application. It comes as a plain executable so you don’t have to bother installing it.
It offers quite a few ways to customize how your pings will work. You can ping entire subnets as well as individual machines. I generally will turn down the “Ping again every….” option to 1 second.
My only wish is that there was a dark mode for the application so that I might stop burning holes through my retina when I need to check if multiple services are up. I know there are methods to set up alerts via email incase of ping failure, but that has never met my use cases. Normally, I just use it to queue up WAN Gateway IPs and IPs to firewalls to know once a system has come online and if the hardware will need a by-hand reboot before it’ll reconnect to WAN.
Overall, I find it a useful application to keep on your system, and for others, I know that there will be a wider range of uses for something like this.
