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Find a tool to ping a list of 3000 hostnames and report which one is not pingable on the network.

Hello Experts,

I have just used a Microsoft DSQUERY tool to generate a list of 3000 computers which are inactive for more than 16 weeks. The list is in .TXT format.

Is there a way or tool I can use to use the list (a txt file) and ping each computer and see if they are actually live?

This is probably a tough one. Just want to see if anyone knows.

Thanks.

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Anuroopsundd

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Anuroopsundd

Please save the above script as .vbs script...
this will take input of machine names from file C:\script\computer.txt
and put the result of ping in C:\script\Result.txt file.

Anuroopsundd

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multiple_ping_tool.html

http://gazeek.com/coding/pinger-the-mass-host-ping-tool/

senseifedon

Hi;

This program can be useful for you. http://ping-monitor.com/ This program is free for 5 hosts. If you use more than 5 hosts, you will have to pay $ 49.00.

Also there is some freeware software for this job. One of them is in this web: http://ping-plus-for-xp-and-vista.3dsnmp.qarchive.org/

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Khandakar Ashfaqur Rahman

Use "Pinger"
http://themonitoringguy.com/downloads/Pinger_v1.5.zip

nav2567

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Thanks everyone ; )

Anuroopsundd, as you are the first one to reply, I am trying your script first. I am testing against five pingable computers and put their names in the computer.txt. However, I am seeing "Failure pinging Machine name -server...." in the result.txt file.

nav2567

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thanks.