The Ping Dragon pings a SharePoint page, using Windows authentication. It will request a SharePoint page and returns the HTTP status code as well as the time it took the request to complete. Ping Dragon is a supporting tool for PressurePoint Dragon for SharePoint ( http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PressurePoint-Dragon-for-58648ae4 ), a performance/load/stress testing tool.

Please Note You should really specify a page, not a general URL. So, instead of http://mywebapp/mysitecoll you should specify http://mywebapp/mysitecoll/default.aspx.

Ping dragon is easy to use, you need to start a command prompt and pass it the following parameters:

- URL of SharePoint page

- user name

- password

- domain name

The following screenshot shows an example:

Requirements:

- .NET 4.5 framework

Ping Dragon is a sister tool of the WinPing Dragon ( http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/WinPing-Dragon-for-eefb6dd3 ) that masks the password from view.

 More info? Check the SharePoint Dragons blog at http://sharepointdragons.com/ !