Windows server ping every hour

[itgeek]

Hi I want to create an app that will ping one of our servers and display a message to the end users. server .... is ok, or server .... is down.

I would like the script to be able to ping the server every hour or so and when the user want to check.

Thanks

[Eleazar]

check the following script and paste on the batch file.

#!/bin/sh
#
# pinghosts - ping hosts in /etc/hosts, output is coloured (red=bad). Ver 1.00.
#


for host in `awk '/^[0-9]/ { print $1 }' /etc/hosts`
do
	echo "Checking $host: \c"
	ping $host 1 2>&1 | \
	   sed 's/.*no answer.*/[31;1m&[0m/;s/.*is alive.*/[32;2m&[0m/'
done

[itgeek]

HI Thanks for the file.

I have pasted this into a .bat file but cant get it to work.

Please can you help?

[Shanbaag]

I am having an idea of coding that works in python :

import time, tm
while 1:
tm.system("echo %s >> c:\\path\\to\\log.txt" % time.asctime())
tm.system("ping foobar.com >> c:\\path\\to\\log.txt")
time.sleep(3600)

Hope it makes some help for you.