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I am trying to write a program that will monitor my routers and servers and notify me when they go down. I am looking for a way to ping the host and read the reply. The InetAddress.isReachable method is the only thing i could find but it uses the echo port which windows has it off by default. i am looking for something generic that i can use on diffrent platforms. Windows, Linux, Cisco OS.
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Take a look at the Runtime class. You can use its exec method to run a ping and the resulting Process has methods to allow you to obtain the I/O/E streams. This allows you to interpret the results of your ping, but note that there are differences in the ping implementation in Windows and Linux (not sure about Cisco OS sorry).

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Runtime() has private access in java.lang.Runtime
Runtime r = new Runtime();


why am i getting this error?
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Hello, mrjoli021
I hope the Sun description of Runtime class help you:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/...g/Runtime.html
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You need to use the static getRuntime() method in order to instantiate the Runtime object.
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As an aside, if you want to limit people to only use one instance of your class in an application, you can do something like this:

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  1. public class myClass {
  2.  
  3.   private static myClass instance = null;
  4.  
  5.   private myClass()
  6.   {
  7.     // do something when creating the instance
  8.   }
  9.  
  10.   public static myClass getInstance()
  11.   {
  12.     if( instance == null )
  13.     {
  14.       instance = new myClass();
  15.     }
  16.     return instance;
  17.   }
  18. }

The Runtime class does something similar in order to limit the number of instances of Runtime objects to one.
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