Pinging

I was wondering if there is a way to set a time to ping a certain server.

I'm using the line

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_PingStatus -Filter "myserver" | Select-Object
-Property Address, ResponseTime

to ping the server once.

So is there a way to run this lets say every 10 minutes?

Sure you can. Save your commands into a ps1 file.
Configure new Scheduled task. In the "Run" textbox type:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINDOW~1\v1.0\powershell.exe <path to your script.ps1>

On the schedule tab choose to run it "Daily", click advanced, tick the repeat
task checkbox, choose 10 minutes,
tick "duration" and type 24 for "hours" and 0 for "minutes"


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if you want the window open and just running forever until you press ctrl+C

have a loop
then after you ping do a start sleep

start-sleep 600


PShellNoober wrote:

Awesome, Thank You.

One more question:

If I have a list of servers, can I import that list into the string so it
will ping all the servers in the list? I tried something like this, and it
just prints out the 2 servers I have listed in the .csv

$DC = get-content "C:\test\dc.csv"
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_PingStatus -Filter "Address='$DC'" | `
Select-Object -Property Address,ResponseTime | export-csv c:\test\ping.csv

I know the import works if I only have one server listed in the file, so I
must be missing something.

Thanks for any help

"Shay Levi" wrote:

In message <8BE81327-92DE-4F6C-8D35-007BF66A3ED7@xxxxxx>,
PShellNoober <PShellNoober@xxxxxx> writes foreach ($comp in $dc) {
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_PingStatus -Filter "Address='$comp'" | `
Select-Object -Property Address,ResponseTime | `
export-csv c:\test\ping.csv
}
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MVP - Admin Frameworks and Security

The loop kind of works, it only prints out the last server in the list. Any
ideas of why it's skipping the first two?

"Thomas Lee" wrote:

You can also schedule the task with schtasks.exe:

schtasks /s <computerName> /create /sc minute /mo 10 /tn "PowerShell Script"
/tr "C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINDOW~1\v1.0\powershell.exe c:\scripts\yourScript.ps1"
/ru <username> /rp <password>

More examples can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true


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Thomas,

Keep in mind that the foreach loop will overwrite the csv file each iteration
and eventually
only the last remote machine address and response time will be recorded.
Add-Content will do the job.

foreach ($comp in $dc) {
$ping=Get-WmiObject -query "select Address,ResponseTime from Win32_PingStatus
where Address='$comp'";
add-content c:\test\ping.csv "$($ping.address),$($ping.ResponseTime)";
}


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In message <99713A8E-8CB1-4625-B56C-72399A18801D@xxxxxx>,
PShellNoober <PShellNoober@xxxxxx> writes Yeah - because each time it goes through the loop, it overwrites
ping.csv. :-(


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Thomas Lee
doctordns@xxxxxx
MVP - Admin Frameworks and Security

You can also use the .net native ping class, you can ping by ip or host name.
Declare $ping outside the loop
and call the send method in each iteration.

PS > $ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping;
PS > $res=$ping.send("google.com");
PS > $res

Status : Success
Address : 72.14.207.99
RoundtripTime : 179
Options : System.Net.NetworkInformation.PingOptions
Buffer : {97, 98, 99, 100...}


########

$dc = get-content "C:\test\dc.csv"
$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping;

foreach ($comp in $dc) {
$res=$ping.send($comp);
add-content c:\test\ping.csv "$($res.address),$($res.Status),$($res.RoundtripTime)";
}



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