For your stderr.bat file, it might also work to redirect echo to stderr. For example:
@echo off echo abc echo def >&2 >&2 echo ghi -- Edward Berner -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hilderbrand, Doug Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 5:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Dirty batch for up servers Here is a pair of short scripts I use for automating some tasks I do. It pings and then does an action only if the ping succeeds. And it properly fails on the "destination host unreachable" ping result. You use it by including a command on the same line. i.e.: ifpingsok.bat myserver echo something or ifpingsok myotherserver copy something somewhere or for /f %i in (filefullofservernames.txt) do ifpingsok %i RunSomeImportantCommand It has worked for me except for extremely complex commands. Oops, almost forgot to include stderr.bat. Maybe I need to rework this in PowerShell, but it works and I use it almost daily. :::::::::::::: :: ifpingsok.bat @echo off setlocal set pingsOKtemp=c:\temp\pingsOK.%random%.tmp if {%1}=={} exit /b 5 if {%2}=={} exit /b 5 ping -4 -n 2 %1 | findstr Reply > %pingsOKtemp% findstr bytes %pingsOKtemp% > nul set exitcode=%errorlevel% for /f "tokens=1,*" %%i in ('echo %*') do set stuff2do=%%j if not %exitcode%==0 call StdErr.bat "%1 doesn't ping" & goto :endfail %stuff2do% :endok del /q %pingsOKtemp% endlocal exit /b 0 :endfail del /q %pingsOKtemp% endlocal exit /b 1 :::::::::::::: :: stderr.bat @echo off setlocal if exist "%TEMP%\StdErr.vbs" goto out @echo dim err>"%TEMP%\StdErr.vbs" @echo Set objshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")>>"%TEMP%\StdErr.vbs" @echo Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments>>"%TEMP%\StdErr.vbs" @echo err=objArgs(0)>>"%TEMP%\StdErr.vbs" @echo WScript.StdErr.Writeline err>>"%TEMP%\StdErr.vbs" :out if {%1}=={} goto outNone cscript //nologo "%TEMP%\StdErr.vbs" %1 endlocal goto :EOF :outNone cscript //nologo "%TEMP%\StdErr.vbs" "No Parameter Provided." endlocal Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Administrator Sr., Information Technology | Crane Aerospace & Electronics From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 2:04 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Dirty batch for up servers As an example of what you can scrape, you could do the following within the parenthesis: FOR /F "tokens=6 delims== " %%I IN ('findstr /I /C:"Average = " %TEMP%\SpeedTest.txt') DO SET SpdTst=%%I This capture the average ping round-trip time, and would allow you to potentially flag latency problems, even if all the pings are successful. -- Espi On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:38 PM, David McSpadden <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks guys. This helps. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 3:07 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Dirty batch for up servers In its simplest form: PING #.#.#.#>%TEMP%\SpeedTest.txt IF "%ERRORLEVEL%" NEQ "0" () Echoing to a text file gives you the opportunity to scrape for any verbose output if you need to. Within the parenthesis, you can do whatever you want based on a ping failure. -- Espi On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:13 AM, David McSpadden <[email protected]> wrote: I want to run a windows batch the just does a ping. If the ping returns good data do nothing but if the ping fails set an error code I can look for and address it outside the batch. Anyone have or can point me to a . b a t script that does this already?? 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