Simple PowerShell script to ping multiple Devices

4 Mar , 2016,

arien

PowerShell

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It’s always useful to quickly check you most important devices in your network! Especially to troubleshoot something.
A Script can help you to get things done faster. When search for common scripts like this I always find complicated and long scripts with built in extra’s. I like to keep my scripts simple for these situations.

First create a .txt file with a list of addresses or hostnames:

To accomplish this all I created the simple powershell script:

Get-Content Devices.txt | `
ForEach-Object {
    If (Test-Connection $_ -Count 1 -ErrorAction 0 -Quiet) { Write-Host "$_ is Pingable" -ForegroundColor Green }
    Else { Write-Host "$_ is DOWN" -ForegroundColor Red }
}

Get-Content Devices.txt | `

ForEach-Object {

If (Test-Connection $_ -Count 1 -ErrorAction 0 -Quiet) { Write-Host "$_ is Pingable" -ForegroundColor Green }

Else { Write-Host "$_ is DOWN" -ForegroundColor Red }

}

The Test-Connection cmdlet is used.

Let’s run the magic script and show what it looks like when it works.

Is it fast enough for you?

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