I'm looking to develop a page that will automatically ping internal servers to check to see if they're alive or not.

How I'm trying to set this :: every 15 minute its pings all the servers once, if the ping fails, it repeats the ping in 15 seconds and after a given number of attemps (5?), it displays a message on the page next to that computer name saying "DOWN".

What I'm wanting to run this on is a 03 server and not really sure what will be the simplest way, yet somewhat flexable (easy to add additional servers) maybe even submit emails when the process fails. I'm not all that good with programming (me hardware!) but the sites I've found so far are not really helping much. I'm fairly good with VB, vb script, java, etc but its been a while.

Anyway, ideas, examples, etc?