Description

Hostcheck is a simple script to check the availabily of hosts read from a file. It can scan ICMP, UDP and TCP.

The host file must be formatted so that each line is like :

host:service1,service2,...,servicen

Example :

toto:ssh,http
titi.org:ssh
tata:

For now, the services are limited among : ssh, telnet, ftp, http, oracle, ms-sql-s, vnc-server, ms-wbt-server, microsoft-ds.

Prerequisites

Hostcheck is a Perl script based on the following modules : Getopt::Std, Net::Ping, Time::HiRes, Term::ANSIColor and IO::Socket.

You can download these from CPAN or install them from you favorite Linux distro.

Synopsis

sudo hostcheck.pl [-utv] FILE

• without option : simple ICMP ping scan. FILE must be a valid path to a file containing the hosts to check.

Options

• -v : verbose mode (display warnings, mostly about invalid entrie from the file)
• -u : process an UDP ping instead of ICMP
• -t : process the TCP services checks (those present in the file)

Download

hostcheck-0.10.tar.gz (2010/01/15)