How to ping multiple servers and return IP address and Hostnames using batch script

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So I have to use batch only for this  Basically  the server HOSTNAMES are all listed in a txt file  I used the following code to ping all the servers and display their results in a txtfile    For  f   i in  testservers txt  do ping -n 1   i  gt  gt pingtest txt   The above pinged all the servers  Now  I want to output the IP addresses and the HOST Names in a separate file  How can I do this  I know that I can run a for loop searching for words like  TTL  and then look for the 3rd token  for the IP  and words like  PINGING  for the second token HOSTNAME   But I am having errors and cant display it properly  The reason why I want to output IPs and Hostnames in a different file is to make a list of the DOWN and UP servers    Help will be appreciated      EDIT  Just so it isn t confusing  wanted to let you guys know there are 3 different files  testservers txt has the HOSTNAMES in it  pingtest txt has ping results  and result txt will have the IPs along with Hostnames with their current status as DOWN or UP

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Try this    servers   Get-Content test txt   reg     foreach   server in  servers        reg  reg  server   t    System Net Dns   GetHostAddresses  server    foreach  echo    IPAddressToString     n       reg  gt reg csv

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Parsing pingtest txt for each HOST name and result with batch is difficult because the name and result are on different lines   It is much easier to test the result  the returned error code  of each PING command directly instead of redirecting to a file  It is also more efficient to enclose the entire construct in parens and redirect the final output just once    gt result txt     for  f   i in  testservers txt  do ping -n 1   i  gt nul  amp  amp  echo   i UP  echo   i DOWN

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the problem with ping is if the host is not alive often your local machine will return an answer that the pinged host is not available  thus the errorcode of ping will be 0 and your code will run in error because not recognizing the down state   better do it this way  ping -n 4  1   findstr TTL if  errorlevel   0  goto  eof  else  goto  error    this way you look for a typical string ttl which is always in the well done ping result and check error on this findstr instead of irritating ping  overall this looks like this    echo off SetLocal   set log path to logfile txt set check path to checkfile txt   start echo  some echo date  gt  gt  log    check for  f   r in   check   do  call  ping   r  goto  eof   ping ping -n 4  1   findstr TTL if  errorlevel   0  goto  eof  else  goto  error    error echo  some errormessage to  gt  gt  log  echo  some blat to mail    eof echo  some good message to  gt  gt  log

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Well  it s unfortunate that you didn t post your own code too  so that it could be corrected  Anyway  here s my own solution to this    echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion  set OUTPUT FILE result txt  gt nul copy nul  OUTPUT FILE  for  f   i in  testservers txt  do       set SERVER ADDRESS ADDRESS N A     for  f  tokens 1 2 3    x in   ping -n 1   i   amp   amp  echo SERVER IS UP   do           if   x  Pinging set SERVER ADDRESS   y         if   x  Reply set SERVER ADDRESS   z         if   x  SERVER IS UP  set SERVER STATE UP  else  set SERVER STATE DOWN            echo   i   SERVER ADDRESS      is  SERVER STATE   gt  gt  OUTPUT FILE      The outer loop iterates through the hosts and the inner loop parses the ping output  The first two if statements handle the two possible cases of IP address resolution    The host name is the host IP address  The host IP address can be resolved from its name    If the host IP address cannot be resolved  the address is set to  ADDRESS N A    Hope this helps

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This works for spanish operation system   Script accepts two parameters    a file with the list of IP or domains output file      script bat listofurls txt output txt    echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set OUTPUT FILE  2  gt nul copy nul  OUTPUT FILE  for  f   i in   1  do       set SERVER ADDRESS No se pudo resolver el host     for  f  tokens 1 2 3 4 5    v in   ping -a -n 1   i   amp   amp  echo SERVER IS UP        do           if   v  Haciendo set SERVER ADDRESS   z         if   v  Respuesta set SERVER ADDRESS   x         if   v  SERVER IS UP  set SERVER STATE UP  else  set SERVER STATE DOWN            echo   i   SERVER ADDRESS      is  SERVER STATE   gt  gt  OUTPUT FILE      echo   i   SERVER ADDRESS      is  SERVER STATE

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I worked on the code given earlier by Eitan-T and reworked to output to CSV file  Found the results in earlier code weren t always giving correct values as well so i ve improved it   testservers txt  SOMESERVER DUDSERVER   results csv  HOSTNAME    LONGNAME                    IPADDRESS   STATE  SOMESERVER  SOMESERVER DOMAIN SUF       10 1 1 1    UP  DUDSERVER   UNRESOLVED                  UNRESOLVED  DOWN    pingtest bat    echo off     setlocal enabledelayedexpansion     set OUTPUT FILE result csv       gt nul copy nul  OUTPUT FILE      echo HOSTNAME LONGNAME IPADDRESS STATE  gt  OUTPUT FILE      for  f   i in  testservers txt  do           set SERVER ADDRESS I UNRESOLVED         set SERVER ADDRESS L UNRESOLVED         for  f  tokens 1 2 3    x in   ping -n 1   i   amp   amp  echo SERVER IS UP   do           if   x  Pinging set SERVER ADDRESS L   y         if   x  Pinging set SERVER ADDRESS I   z             if   x  SERVER IS UP  set SERVER STATE UP  else  set SERVER STATE DOWN                    echo   i   SERVER ADDRESS L       SERVER ADDRESS I     is  SERVER STATE          echo   i  SERVER ADDRESS L      SERVER ADDRESS I      SERVER STATE   gt  gt  OUTPUT FILE

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This worked great I just add the -a option to ping to resolve the  hostname  Thanks https   stackoverflow com users 4447323 wombat   echo off     setlocal enabledelayedexpansion     set OUTPUT FILE result csv   gt nul copy nul  OUTPUT FILE  echo HOSTNAME LONGNAME IPADDRESS STATE  gt  OUTPUT FILE  for  f   i in  testservers txt  do       set SERVER ADDRESS I UNRESOLVED     set SERVER ADDRESS L UNRESOLVED     for  f  tokens 1 2 3    x in   ping -n 1 -a   i   amp   amp  echo SERVER IS UP   do       if   x  Pinging set SERVER ADDRESS L   y     if   x  Pinging set SERVER ADDRESS I   z         if   x  SERVER IS UP  set SERVER STATE UP  else  set SERVER STATE DOWN            echo   i   SERVER ADDRESS L       SERVER ADDRESS I     is  SERVER STATE      echo   i  SERVER ADDRESS L      SERVER ADDRESS I      SERVER STATE   gt  gt  OUTPUT FILE

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echo off  set workdir  your working dir   for example - C  work   set iplist  workdir  IP-list txt  setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set OUTPUT FILE  workdir  result csv   gt nul copy nul  OUTPUT FILE  echo HOSTNAME LONGNAME IPADDRESS STATE  gt  OUTPUT FILE  for  f   i in   iplist   do       set SERVER ADDRESS I UNRESOLVED     set SERVER ADDRESS L UNRESOLVED     for  f  tokens 1 2 3    x in   ping -a -n 1   i   amp   amp  echo SERVER IS UP   do       if   x  Pinging set SERVER ADDRESS L   y     if   x  Pinging set SERVER ADDRESS I   z         if   x  SERVER IS UP  set SERVER STATE UP  else  set SERVER STATE DOWN            echo   i   SERVER ADDRESS L       SERVER ADDRESS I     is  SERVER STATE      echo   i  SERVER ADDRESS L      SERVER ADDRESS I      SERVER STATE   gt  gt  OUTPUT FILE

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