You could do that easily with ping itself and the FOR command Give me some time and I might be able to dig out an example, if no-one else chimes in
Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -----Original Message----- From: David Lum <david....@nwea.org> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:24:09 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>Subject: Ping by name tool I'm looking for a ping tool that will ping a text file list of hostnames and return the reply, IP address and the NetBIOS name. Here's what I currently have to do: Get list of machine names from AD, McAfee, or other systems. Ping the name With the returned IP, do an NBTSTAT -A to check the NetBIOS name to see if it matches the pinged host name I have to do this because frequently our VPN'd systems don't have a correct DNS entry, so some management software gets tripped up. I could do a search for free ping tools, but figured a query here might save me time if someone has a tool they do that already meets this requirement. Advanced IP scanner comes close, but only accepts IP's and not host names as what to ping. Ideally the output would be in a CSV format. I'm guessing PowerShell can do this too? David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
