如何使用来自远程服务器的net.tcp端点ping或检查WCF服务的状态？

I really come from the world of Http and never did much with the old .NET Remoting which used TCP, but I understand the TCP concepts and now have implemented several WCF services using the net.tcp binding over the last few years. Most of the time it is up, running, I consume it, end of story. However sometimes the server setup is more advanced and I get communication errors that exist on 1 server and maybe not from another. To prove if it is a firewall/server/etc. issue I need to see if the WCF service can even be seen or reached without issue. This is for a Windows Service hosted WCF service using net.tcp that I am trying to figure out this situation. and never