Afternoon All,

Just after a bit of advice on the best method to use for the following.

I am new ish to .net and have an Asp.net web page in development that i simply lists some internal web sites by a ping command and outlines their status (on-line / offline). This is current;y activated by the click of a button.

I need to set up this developemt web page so that it automatically runs at a specific time on a morning say 7am for arguments sake and to then notify a user group by email the status of these items.

I have used Microsoft Visual studio (VB) 2010 before and can create simple web works that connect/ extract/ update data to and from SQL 2008. I have also had some experience in creating scheduled jobs in SQL but not much.

I thought i could maybe create a scheduled job in SQL 2008, find a way to populate the data into the database, use this data in my website and display it a gridview or something. And either have the SQL job or the website email a group of users the status of these internal web sites.

Does anyone know if i would beable to complete the above just in .net? Am i able to write a script of some sort or schedule the web page to run at a specified time?

Im not 100% sure on the best method to tackle this job and i have limited experience. Can anyone suggest any best method ideas on how to complete the above.

Regards
Bet.