How to Ping a list of Computer in PowerShell

Question

Hi everybody!
I have a list of Computers with IP

ListOfComputerIP.txt like this:

192.168.1.2 - John'PC
192.168.1.3 - Tim'PC
192.168.1.4 - Green'PC

Now I need a loop command to Ping all that Computer via IP to check every single computer Up or Down.

Answer 1

Please try this:

$computers = Get-Content -Path "ListOfComputerIP.txt"
foreach ($computer in $computers)
    {
    $ip = $computer.Split(" - ")[0]
    if (Test-Connection  $ip -Count 1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue){
        Write-Host "$ip is up"
        }
    else{
        Write-Host "$ip is down"
        }
    }

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Hi @Liem Nguyen

Yes, it is possible to ping list of computers using powershell script.

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Answer 3

Is your text file in the solution a list of computers, or a list of computer names and IP Addresses, are there column headers, can this be done with just computer names?

Answer 4

This working for me, however it's truncating the hostname and only using the first 8 characters of the hostname. Is there a way to have it use more than 8 characters in the hostname?