ping a list of computer names

Well, none were what I was looking for. LinLover is correct. I want to be able to import, say, an Active Directory extract of computer names in .txt file and ping all of them.
I found a gui-based app a few years ago that did this but it's like a needle in a haystack now. I'm surprised people don't make stuff like this.

I like using Angry IP scanner. It is free and fast.

I made a batch file similar to this one and it works great:
http://www.computing.net/programming...rum/14766.html

100's of handy little ping tools here:

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/B...opy-files.html

All free too.

We just wrote our own in VB.NET. Fairly easy to do, even with a rudimentary understanding of the language.

lol that was excessive. The framework for .net that is loaded into memory is huge. Here is what I wrote before it works fine.

file: PINGresults.txt - make a blank file
file: HOSTS.txt - add each host with a new line for each host not commas or anything like that
file: PingAll.cmd -

Code:

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@Echo Off


TITLE Ping Test


SET MachineList=HOSTS.txt
SET ResultsFile=PINGresults.txt



CLS
ECHO.
IF NOT EXIST "%MachineList%" (
  ECHO Cannot locate Machine List: %MachineList%
  PAUSE>NUL
  GOTO :EOF
)


FOR /f "tokens=*" %%M in (%MachineList%) do CALL :CHECK "%%M"

GOTO :EOF

:CHECK
SET Machine=%~1
SET Machine=%Machine: =%

PING -n 1 %Machine%>NUL
Echo Processing %Machine%
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 ECHO %Machine% did respond at %Time%>>%ResultsFile%
EXIT /B

:EOF

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Its quick, its dirty, its simple, its easy. Just put the hosts in hosts.txt and run pingall.txt and it will ping all of them and it log the ones that did not respond in pingresults.txt

Well, the pinging part was just a small part of a larger picture. There are many other things we're doing with this particular program that can't really be scripted : info gathering, remote task-management, etc...basically a techie 'all-in-one' program.

sam-spade tools? hehe

Code:

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On Error Resume Next
 
If Wscript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then
    Wscript.Echo "You must enter the computer name when starting this script."
    Wscript.Quit
End If
 
strComputer = Wscript.Arguments.Item(0)
 
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strCommand = "%comspec% /c ping -n 3 -w 1000 " & strComputer & ""
Set objExecObject = objShell.Exec(strCommand)
 
Do While Not objExecObject.StdOut.AtEndOfStream
    strText = objExecObject.StdOut.ReadAll()
    If Instr(strText, "Reply") > 0 Then
 
        ' =====================================================================
        ' Insert your code here
        ' =====================================================================
 
        Set objComputer = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "")
        objComputer.Filter = Array("User")
        For Each objUser in objComputer
            Wscript.Echo objUser.Name
        Next
 
        ' =====================================================================
        ' End
        ' =====================================================================
 
    Else
        Wscript.Echo strComputer & " could not be reached."
    End If
Loop

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Or something to that effect. You could pull from a csv file if you wanted to

Quote:

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Originally Posted by not_it

Well, none were what I was looking for. LinLover is correct. I want to be able to import, say, an Active Directory extract of computer names in .txt file and ping all of them.
I found a gui-based app a few years ago that did this but it's like a needle in a haystack now. I'm surprised people don't make stuff like this.

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I realize that this thread is a bit old... but nmap will do that too.

nmap -sP -iL c:\cnames.txt

You may just have to format the export from AD. But, that is easy enough.

If you want a GUI, then there are several to choose from.
http://insecure.org/nmap/