Les,

You are right. [Frown]

I was running out of time for the day to leave for home.. So, yes my words were a bit sparse.

Using an INI file for the servers"
code:
1=SERVER1
2=SERVER2
3=SERVER3
Read in the server, check to see if it is on-line.. If it is not, create a marker. Wait 5 minutes and PING again.. If the server has not come back up after 12 times (60 minutes), page and/or e-mail admin that a server comes back up.

Currently, our batch file creates a marker and e-mails if the server is not available and does not e-mail and delete the marker again until it comes back on-line.

Thanks,

Kent
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