As usual, some more requests came to me, this time for soem monitoring, once again I took a look at the Script Centre and the Script Repositiory and found this very amazing cmdlet: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/97119ed6-6fb2-446d-98d8-32d823867131
This is wonderful work as it allows you to not only test TCP ports, but also UDP ports. I will post up my monitoring script based upon this shortly.