PowerShell Scripts to Continuously Ping a Host and Give an Audible Alert

#Used to continuously ping a host and get an audible alert when it is back up.

function ContinuousPing-Beep
{
    param([string]$computer)
    $ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
    $result = $ping.Send($computer);
    if($result.Status -eq "Success")
    {
        Write-Host "Reply received from $computer" -Foreground green
        Write-Host `a;
    }
    else
    {
        do{$result = $ping.Send($computer);Write-Host "Reply from $computer. Destionation host unreachable." -Foreground red}
            until($result.Status -eq "Success")
            Write-Host "Reply received from $computer" -Foreground green
            Write-Host `a;
    }
}

function ContinuousPing-Voice
{
    param([string]$computer)
    
    $voice = new-object -com SAPI.SpVoice
    $ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
    $result = $ping.Send($computer);
    if($result.Status -eq "Success")
    {
        $voice.Speak("Reply received from $computer", 1)
    }
    else
    {
        do{$result = $ping.Send($computer);Write-Host "Reply from $computer. Destionation host unreachable." -Foreground red}
          until($result.Status -eq "Success")
       
        $voice.Speak("Reply received from $computer", 1)

    }
}

ContinuousPing-Beep "192.168.1.1"

ContinuousPing-Voice "192.168.1.1"

How to determin if you are logged in via Kerberos or NTLM on SQL Server

Simply run the following query.

SELECT
    c.session_id
   ,s.login_name
   ,c.auth_scheme
   ,c.net_transport
   ,s.host_name
   ,s.login_time
   
FROM sys.dm_exec_connections c
INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_sessions s on s.session_id = c.session_id