Ping mutiple ips .bat file

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.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009 // Labels: Microsoft // 6 comments //

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6 comments to "Ping mutiple ips .bat file"

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  1 September 2009 at 04:53
  Saleh says:

  Suppose if you want to ping all ips in a particular domain you can use the below
  Instead of manually pinging all IP addresses on your LAN you can use this nice command:
  
  Open Command Prompt and type:
  
  FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO ping -n 1 192.168.0.%i | FIND /i "Reply">>c:\ipaddresses.txt
  
  The "-n 1" is for only 1 ping packet to be sent to each computer.
  
  Change 192.168.0 to match you own Network ID.
  
  This will ping all IP addresses on the 192.168.0.0 network segment and create a text file called IPADDRESSES.TXT in C:\, where it will list only the IP addresses that gave a reply.
  
  You can also add a -a to the PING command to resolve all the responding IP addresses to HOST names, but doing so will cause the script to take a considerable time to finish:
  
  FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO ping -a -n 1 192.168.0.%i | FIND /i "Reply">>c:\ipaddresses.txt
  
  don't forget to type the command in 1 line.

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  1 September 2009 at 04:55
  Karthik says:

  For unix - Shell script is much helpful so try below code in a shell script
  #script to ping multiple hosts
  
  #for loop
  for i in cat `cat ~/ping.txt`
  do
  fping $i | grep unreachable
  done

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  22 September 2009 at 06:41
  Anonymous says:

  c:\windows\system32\etc\hosts

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  14 June 2010 at 07:51
  Unknown says:

  HELLO
  
  Below script just satfisfies the first IF condition regardless of the situation.. is there any changes to be made ??
  
  
  
  
  
  
  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

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  10 July 2011 at 21:28
  Stuart says:

  In the code for /f %z in (myhosts.txt) do pinghosts.bat %%z
  
  Remove one of the % before the second z for this to work

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  10 August 2012 at 07:28
  Anonymous says:

  Use double percents when executing the script from a batch file and single when executing from a command line.
  
  Commandline:
  C:\for /f %z in (hosts.txt) do pinghost.bat %z
  
  From within a file:
  for /f %%z in (hosts.txt) do pinghosts.bat %%z