Automated ASP Script run

Hello,

i wrote a small script to ping all the computers in our network so see which one are online and which aren't ...

Everytime an employee visits the page, the script is run and the results are written to a database ... But now, i want to shedule the page so it is loaded every 5 minutes, indepent from the result page ...

How can i do this ??? Sheduled Tasks  from windows 2000 won't work ... I read i have to do something with the ASP.DLL and Windows Script Host, but i don't get it :) ...

(script to ping is default.asp)

Becausesheduled tasks can't run websites from your localhost IIS server. I can execute the asp site itself, but then it opens Frontpage.

(i forgot to mention in my question, is it possible to run it in background, so no window pops up?)

To prevent it from opening Front page, you have to changde your file associations - use ie for "open", and fp for "edit". Also add fp to the right-click "open-with" menu.

Back with W2K, I seem to recall running localhost web pages through scripting by executing a shortcut to the file rather than the file itself. Always opened a window though.

One approach that many people use to run scheduled asp scripts that don't produce page output is to get a $2/$3 a month unix account with crontab capability. Execute the page through cron using the Lynx browser and redirect any output to /dev/null.

I use this approach to get and format news feeds once an hour or so. Speeds up the page loads as the user doesn't wait for the feed.

You could write your own little utility to do that, in .net it would be something like this

Dim strURL As String = http://www.yourdomain.com

Dim wc As New System.Net.WebClient

wc.DownloadData(strURL)

System.Threading.CurrentThread.Sleep(10) 'Time to wait for (MS)