A Nice Colourful Ping

[Brinh123]

I've put the following into a .cmd file called NEWPING.CMD

echo off & cls
:top
PING -n 1 %1% | FIND "TTL="
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (SET OUT=0C & echo Request timed out.) ELSE (SET OUT=0A)
color %OUT%
sleep 1
GoTo top

I then added the following custom tool:
c:\windows\NewPing.CMD %HOSTNAME%

This way you can select a bunch of servers, have a ping window open for each of them that goes green while the server is responding and red when they timeout.

(Code is a modified version of Albin Sebastian's code that can be found at http://www.binbert.com/blog/2010/09/bat-file-for-continuous-ping-with-backgrou nd-colour-changes/

[EDIT - Found a typo, code above corrected byt replacing %S% with %HOSTNAME%]

[This message has been edited by Brinh123 (edited 06-16-2011).]

[Ixne]

This may seem obvious to some, but the SLEEP command does not ship
with WindowsXP; apparently it's available from within the Server 2003 Resource
Kit.

[connollyr]

As each window opens by itself how do you know which server is which?