EZ Pinger for Windows

By Maximum Output Software
Trial version
User Rating

Key Details of EZ Pinger

Test Internet and local hosts.
Last updated on July 23, 2015
There have been 6 updates
Also available on
Virus scan status:
Clean (it's extremely likely that this software program is clean)

Developer's Description

By Maximum Output Software

Test Internet and local hosts.

EZ Pinger is a network monitoring and management tool for testing Internet and local hosts via Ping, TCP connections, Windows services, Windows shares, and Web servers via HTTP. When a host goes offline or comes online alerts can be sent via email, on-screen popup, HTTP, or EZ Pinger can launch external programs in response to online/offline events.

Version 1.01 adds Host wizard, some small bug fixes, additional variables that can be inserted into outgoing email, feature to automatically determine which host in a route is down.

EZ Pinger for Windows

By Maximum Output Software
Trial version
User Rating

Explore More

Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: December 26, 2006

Latest update: July 23, 2015

Version: 1.01

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 10
Windows Vista
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows XP

Additional Requirements: Window 98/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 1,032

Downloads Last Week: 0

Report Software

Related Software

User Reviews

5/5

1 User Votes

A surprisingly useful utility, which rapidly becomes indispensible.
junglejim45September 1, 2006
Pros
EZ Pinger is one of those utilities that you wonder whether you need when you first encounter it, but which grows on you rapidly when you see the point of it. It monitors the state of any computers you can connect to, and warns you by various means, including e-mail, if anything happens to any of them. It has a nicely-designed, flexible interface which allows you to monitor each host in the way that's most appropriate for that host. For some it may be pinging, for others it may be doing a test log-on to their ftp or http server, and so on. It logs its activities in a clear, accessible manner, and it's capable of running either as an application or as a Windows service. Support is good, mainly from its very responsive author via its user forum. <p> <p>There is a great deal of function built into EZ Pinger, and I've probably only used a small part of it. I run a number of computers distributed across several LANs, geographically separated, so data synchronization and backup across the LANs and the Internet is a critical issue. EZ Pinger is superb at keeping an eye on the machines, letting me know at the first sign of trouble (as yesterday, when one of them didn't come up properly after a short power outage). I've become very dependent on it now!
Cons
You do need to be comfortable with the basic workings of the Internet and the difference, for example, between a ping and a TCP packet. It's not that you need to understand in detail what these are; it's that EZ Pinger uses these terms in its interface, and if you don't know what they are you're not going to find it easy to understand what the interface is asking you to do.
Summary