Ping mutiple ips .bat file - Ping Mutiple Hosts

Here is a small code snippet used for knowing the status of multiple machines/hosts/Ips status.

Say you have n number of Hosts and you want to know how many of them are reachable/pingable from your machine, it will be difficult to see the status of each machine one by one.
So we can do this using simple BAT file in windows.

We will be doing this using 2 files one is pinghosts.bat and second one is myhosts.txt

myhosts.txt : it contains the list of IPs or hostnames to be verified

Sample myhosts.txt looks like the below

9.124.113.49
9.124.113.81
9.124.112.100
9.124.112.101
9.124.113.82
9.124.113.83


pinghosts.bat >>>> It is a simple bat file to ping each and every machine specified in myhosts.txt and log the status in a log file called ping.log
sample pinghosts.bat looks like the below

#This batch file is to ping multiple hosts
#and gets the status of the machines
#(List of IPs to be checked should be specified in a file)
ping -a -n 1 %1 |findstr "Reply from" >> ping.log
echo %ERRORLEVEL%
if errorlevel==1 goto notgood
if errorlevel==0 goto good
:notgood
echo %1 is not pingable >> ping.log
goto end
:good
echo %1 is good >> ping.log
goto end
:end
echo ---------------------- >> ping.log
#end of batch


Once the pinghosts.bat and myhosts.txt are ready go to command prompt in windows and change directory to the location where pinghosts and myhosts are located.
then run the following command

for /f %z in (myhosts.txt) do pinghosts.bat %%z

Note : the ping.log will be created in the current directory where the pinghosts.bat exists.