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Special Forums IP Networking Checking for availability of remote server Post 302108035 by dylanmilks on Thursday 22nd of February 2007 01:22:15 PM
Old 02-22-2007
Checking for availability of remote server

Hi. In my KSH script I'm running a command on a remote server. I want to know how I can test to see if the remote server is available (accessible) prior to running the command. Any ideas?

My command looks like:

`ssh $USER@$TARGET_SERVER_DNS ls -l $REMOTE_FOLDER `

This check should be generic enough to handle the following cases:

- server not available (network problem)
- server DNS name not found
- invalid user name, user doesn't exist on the remote server
- remote folder path doesn't exist
- etc

I just need for the SSH command to return a true/false indicating success or failure, that's it.

One inportant point: PING is disabled in my environment.
 

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