i need a script that will go out onto the network and ping all 14 windows computers and report back.and do this every day at 12pm. The servers ip is 192.168.101 and works up to 192.168.125 to the machines

anyone please help.

Just set up a script to ping each box by name. Possibly in a for loop. put your hosts in a file one per line with full DNS name or IP address.

for name in `cat hosts.file`
do
ping "some command here" >> file.report
done 2> error.log
done

This may be crude, but it should work. Set it up in cron to run everyday at 12.


Try searching this forum for PING or something similar to your topic.

#!/bin/ksh

let x=101
while [[ $x != 126 ]]
do
ping -c 1 192.168.101.$x || echo 192.168.101.$x >>/var/outputfilename
let "x = x + 1"
done

Run this in cron every day at 12

thanks. i made the list of ips and saved it as iping

should the script look like this??


for name in `iping.pl`
do
ping "some command here" >> file.report
done 2> error.log
done



or what should i save the list as?

i keep gettin a error
it says: Missing $ on loop variable at script line one


whats wrong >?

for name in `cat iping.pl`
do
ping $name >> file.report
done 2> error.log

For speed in completing the loop you may want to use the -c switch (linux) and limit the number of ICMP packets sent to each machine to 1.

still getting that error on line 1


how do i make this for loop ?
anyone got like a template i can edit for it?