Verifying DICOM communication

Similarly to the ICMP ping, DICOM has a communication verification service which checks that two peers can communicate at the DICOM level. It is accessible through odil echo:

odil echo www.dicomserver.co.uk 11112 WORKSTATION SERVER

The first two arguments are the TCP/IP information (respectively the host and port) and the last two arguments are the name of the DICOM applications (respectively the calling and called AE titles). If the DICOM ping fails, the error is displayed; otherwise the command just returns.