Ping Multiple Servers using “PowerShell”

 

Hi,

Today I was looking for  a little PowerShell script which can Ping multiple servers and give a consolidated view on PowerShell console that which one is Live and which one is Dead.

Then a decide to write my own and finally wrote  it: ) and it is a only a 9 line script :)

You can copy and paste the script from below or you can download it from here : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17858935/Ping_Multiple_Servers.zip 

let me explain the script :

$Servername: is a variable which contain a list  of comma separated Server name

in foreach script block we are selecting all servers in $ServerName variable and run Test-Connection cmdlets against them

in If Test-Connection evaluates that servers in Pinging that it writes “S$server is alive” otherwise it write “Server is dead”,

In test-connection Cmdlet we define that it should send only 2 Pings to the server using –count 2 switch parameter and used –Quiet Switch parameter so that is show the output in Boolean (true or false)

 

   1:  #### Provide the computer name in $computername variable

   2:   

   3:  $ServerName = "Dc-2","LocalHost","Server-2","Not-Exists","Fake-computer"

   4:   

   5:  ##### Script Starts Here ###### 

   6:   

   7:  foreach ($Server in $ServerName) {

   8:   

   9:          if (test-Connection -ComputerName $Server -Count 2 -Quiet ) { 

  10:          

  11:              write-Host "$Server is alive and Pinging " -ForegroundColor Green

  12:          

  13:                      } else

  14:                      

  15:                      { Write-Warning "$Server seems dead not pinging"

  16:              

  17:                      }            

  18:  }

  19:   

  20:  ########## end of script #######################

The output of the script will be like below link.

 

Download Link : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17858935/Ping_Multiple_Servers.zip 

 

Thanks

aman dhally