topic Re: Ping in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Ping

Former Member — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:24:55 GMT

Hi all,

anybody knows if there is a function or an example code to make a ping to specific IP (not necessary to a server).

Regards,

Re: Ping

RichHeilman — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:26:02 GMT

Yes, there is.

Try RFC_PING

Regards,

Rich Heilman

Re: Ping

andreas_mann3 — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:31:02 GMT

hi,

try fm FTP_CONNECT

Andreas

Re: Ping

Former Member — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:34:10 GMT

I've tried but the function is empty and I try to execute but it do nothing, there is no place to specify the IP.

Re: Ping

Former Member — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:35:25 GMT

Hi,

Try SCMS_RFC_PING.

Regards,

Re: Ping

RichHeilman — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:37:36 GMT

I believe that you must set up an RFC connection via SM59. Then when calling the function module, you specify the DESTINIATION <RFC_CONNECTION>

Regards,

Rich HEilman

Re: Ping

Former Member — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:41:31 GMT

You have to create RFC destination and then try FM SCWB_RFC_PING

Re: Ping

Former Member — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:46:03 GMT

Is possible to make a ping without defining an rfc?my problem is that I only want to know if a printer (connected via LAN) is on.

Re: Ping

RichHeilman — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:47:46 GMT

I don't think there is any other way.

Regards,

Rich HEilman

Re: Ping

Former Member — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:48:59 GMT

OK, thank you to everybody

Re: Ping

thomas_jung — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:00:13 GMT

It sounds like maybe you want to do this via an OS command on the Server. Look in transaction SM69. These are the allowed and configured OS commands. I checked on my systems (HP-UX and Windows) and I see PING and NIPING both configured and last changed by SAP (so it looks like these are delivered). They are also marked as ANY OS.

Have a look at the function moduel SXPG_COMMAND_EXECUTE to excute the command.

Re: Ping

Former Member — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:17:32 GMT

Thanks Thomas, I'm trying the function module with the commands but it give me an exception, commmand_not_found.

Re: Ping

thomas_jung — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:45:06 GMT

Be careful using the function test tool with this function module. It looks like it is autofilling the OPERATINGSYSTEM parameter with the value of your host. However change this to ANYOS and you should not get the command_not_found error.

Re: Ping

thomas_jung — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:49:15 GMT

You can also use transaction SM49 to test External Operating System Commands.

Re: Ping

thomas_jung — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:57:46 GMT

An interesting note here if you trying this on a Windows OS Server. On WebAS 640, the delivered Ping Command required parameter '-c 4'. This doesn't appear to be valid on the Windows OS version of Ping.

However I checked a 7.00 WebAS, and SAP has removed that parameter from the PING Command.

In order to get the PING command to work on 640, I had to copy it to ZPING and remove the parameter. Now it tests out fine.

Re: Ping

Former Member — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:03:02 GMT

I'm trying the test transaction, but it says: syntax error at line 1: ´(' unexpected, but I'm using the commands defined by SAP and I don't know what to do

Thank you

Re: Ping

thomas_jung — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:31:34 GMT

What parameters are you inputting?

Re: Ping

Former Member — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:54:36 GMT

I had defined a command ZPING for the command ping without parameters and I try to execute it via SM49 with the IP in the additional parameters

Re: Ping

thomas_jung — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:08:21 GMT

I did the exact same thing and it works fine for me. Perhaps some screen shots of my ZPING will help out:

<a href="https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/weblogs/images/1918/SM69_1.JPG">SM69 Setup</a>

Re: Ping

Former Member — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:28:03 GMT

Thank you Thomas, the problem persists, I defined another time the command but when I test it, it give me this failure:

Comando efectuado: & ping : : 199.5.83.13

Máquina destino: SATI06

sapxpg: executing "ping".

Remote Call Failed in O4PRTLIBC::spawn_ile

Errno = 2

FILE=as4execp.cpp - LINE=150

SharedLibCache Information:

Search Path:

/sapmnt/DAS/exe

*LIBL

/usr/sap/DAS/DVEBMGS00/work

/QOpenSys/usr/bin

/usr/ccs/bin

/QOpenSys/usr/bin/X11

/usr/sbin

/usr/sap/DAS/SYS/exe/run

/usr/bin

/usr/sap/DAS/SYS/exe/run

Load Cache:

O4PRTLIBC Loaded as /sapmnt/DAS/exe/O4PRTLIBC

Program output follows

Program output ends

sh: syntax error at line 1 : `(' unexpected

External program terminated with exit code 255