Hello All,
Need a little help.
I am wanting to create a simple batch file to ping several known IP Addresses from within my NETWORK. I need to make this utility for my comrades at work when I am not there to FIND the problem.

I am wanting to ping an IP Address, then if it does return, state SUCCESSFUL, or if it fails, return the IP Address and a name I assign to that address, then move to the next.

Any help appreciated
Davids Learning
You can read out the pcnames from a hostlist with a for loop
to ping and analyze the output

findstr gives you errorlevel 0 if it finds the string, errorlevel 1 if it doesn't find it.
The FOLLOWING code works on my machine.
(Depends what the output of ping ins on your machine. I use german language version.

hope it helps
uli

@echo off
setlocal
FOR /F %%h IN (hosts.txt) do call :ping %%h
echo.



goto :eof
:ping
set PC=%1

REM check if PC is online.
ping -n 1 %PC% | findstr Timeout
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1 (echo %PC% >> pc_online.txt

endlocal

:EOF




I appreciate you responding, but I need to be able to ping specific IP's with a name that I assign. The pc's here do not have the users name.
The people here wont understand what the names are and where they are.
I have got to keep the response so that its simple for the others to understand.

I was wanting to return like

Timmys PC - Found OK
Tonys PC - Not Found - Problem
Internet Provider - Found - OK

The first 2 would be IP addresses
The second would be a Web Site ping

Thanks
Davis Learning
So you want just a single ip adress with names?
You need a list with all pcs like this:

Tommy:1.27.111.111
Mad:1.7.222.222
....

Use it like:
Script tommy


@echo off
setlocal
if {%1} == {} (echo please type a pc name & goto :EOF)
set USER=%1

FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims=:" %%h in ('find /i "%USER%" hosts.txt') do call :ping %%h %%i

goto :eof
:ping %%h %%i
set USER=%1
set IP=%2

REM check if PC is online.
ping -n 1 %IP% | findstr Timeout
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1 (echo %USER%s PC -OK >> pc_online.txt
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (echo %USER%s PC - Not OK >> pc_online.txt
endlocal
:EOF


This should work (hopefully ;-))
Uli