Monitoring connectivity

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Monitoring connectivity

Message Queuing offers an MQPing test, which has some similarity to the ping command supported by the TCP/IP protocol. You can use MQPing to determine whether the Message Queuing service is running on the computer being tested and whether that computer is currently connected to the network. When a computer running Message Queuing receives an MQPing request, it returns a response message to a response queue on the computer that sent the MQPing request. Thus, unlike the ping command, MQPing does not test for direct IP connectivity between the two computers, but verifies that messages can be sent between them with allowance for the possibility of routing.

For information on how to use MQPing, see Test connectivity using MQPing.