sphr2k / NetMonitor

PowerShell script that runs a ping to a host and stores the result in an SQLite database

NetMonitor

What it does

PowerShell script that runs an ICMP echo request ("ping") to 8.8.8.8 or a host of your choice using PowerShell's Test-NetConnection command and stores the result in an SQLite database. Date/Time is stored as Unix timestamp. Script can easily be run periodically, e.g. using Windows Task Scheduler.

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command C:\Path\to\NetMonitor\NetMonitor.ps1

I wrote this to check how often my internet connection is down.

Parameters

.\NetMonitor.ps1 -Hostname some.host -Database C:\Full\Path\to\SQLite.db

Requirements

• PowerShell
• PSSQLite