Ping Reply Tool

[remybfg10k]

Hi Network Admin type people

I'm looking for a tool that i can provide a list of hostnames/ip's that the tool will ping and then provide a report of replies

At the moment doing a ping that replies to a text file, all manual

 

[neobyte]

nmap (you can set it to ping only)

However, Angry IP Scanner is exactly what you are looking for... Just google it

 

[remybfg10k]

ta

 

[remybfg10k]

Why oh why do they not release this as a .zip, .msi or .rar

 

[remybfg10k]

Neobyte,

Got the list thing working, although i have another requirement, i only have a list of hostnames that i need it to scan, cant seem to get that working though!

Would you have any idea or recommend a different app?

 

[Anthro]

What kind of router do you have ?
You might be able to retrieve the arp cache from it ..
Also, what handles the DHCP - because that will also be smart enough

 

[avert]

solarwinds network monitor. I love those smiley faces.

 

[thisgeek]

Here is something that I wrote (uber leet batch file writing skillz) and use a lot as a precursor to running other scripts.
Basically I export a list of all domain computers from Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) to a file called 'allcomps.txt' in the same folder as the batch file. Firstly it checks if the computer is responding to ping. If it's not, the name is put in 'dcoff.txt'. If it is, the DNS name is then compared to the netbios name returned from the machine's IP address. If it matches, the name is put into the file 'dcon.txt' (And this is the file that is used for further scripts). If the netbios name does not match the dns name (because our internal DNS was notoriously bad), then the name is put in to 'bad.txt' for me to look at later.

I'm pretty sure you can modify what I've done to suit your own purposes. It should be far better than doing it manually.

If you paste the code into notepad++ and set the type to batch, it will be all nicely colour coded.

Pinger.bat:

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
Rem Configure the script as follows
SET INFILE=allcomps.txt
SET OFFLINEFILE=dcoff.txt
SET ONLINEFILE=dcon.txt
SET BADFILE=bad.txt
Rem Configuration ends here. Do not modify below.

ECHO This will check if the specified computers are online.
ECHO.
ECHO Configuration (Edit %0 to change):
ECHO Input File: %INFILE%
ECHO Offline File: %OFFLINEFILE%
ECHO Online File: %ONLINEFILE%
ECHO Bad File: %BADFILE%
ECHO.
SET /P ANS=Do you wish to continue? Y/N 
IF /I "%ANS%" NEQ "Y" GOTO:EOF
IF NOT EXIST %INFILE% ( 
  echo %INFILE% does not exist. Please export it as tab delimited from an ADUC query.
  GOTO:EOF
)
SORT %INFILE% /O %INFILE%s

FOR /F "skip=1 tokens=1 delims=, " %%A IN (%INFILE%s) DO CALL:CheckOnline %%A
DEL %INFILE%s
GOTO:EOF

:CheckOnline
title Checking %~1
PING %~1 -n 1 -w 1500 > NUL 2>&1
if "%ERRORLEVEL%" NEQ "0" (
    ECHO %~1 is offline.
    ECHO %~1>> %OFFLINEFILE%
) ELSE (
    ECHO %~1 is online, verifying...
    CALL:VerifyName %~1
)
GOTO:EOF

:VerifyName
title Verifying %~1
Rem The IP step is necessary. nbtstat returns bad info when used against the name.
FOR /F "tokens=3 delims=[] " %%A in ('PING -n 1 -w 1500 %~1 ^| FINDSTR -R "\[*\]"') do (SET VIP=%%A)
FOR /F "tokens=1" %%A in ('NBTSTAT -A %VIP% ^| FIND "UNIQUE" ^| FIND "<20>"') do (SET VNAME=%%A)
IF /I "%~1" EQU "%VNAME%" (
  ECHO %~1 confirmed!
  ECHO %~1>> %ONLINEFILE%
) ELSE (
  ECHO %~1 is bad.
  ECHO %~1>> %BADFILE%
)
GOTO:EOF

 

[dadecoza]

Some people on the wug use SmokePing.

 

[hungrybeaver]

I use Netscan almost every day. http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/

Insert an IP range to scan and it will bring back hostnames as well as all currently used IPs, shares, and MAC addresses if you desire.

 

[Treschen]

you can use mtr on a linux host

mtr 4.2.2.2

 

[srothman]

Here is something that I wrote ....snip-snip

You don't need more than that. I have something similar in Excel, but that will work just fine for what you want to achieve.